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 by David Bentley

Between 1750 and 1864, twenty-seven men and one woman were publicly evet York, and one man hanged at Leeds for crimes committed in Sheffield. They were not all killers.

In the eighteenth century nearly two-hundred crimes were punishable with death, and the crimes for which The Sheffield Hanged were executed included arson, theft, robbery, rape bestiality and, of course murder. They have no graves and, with the exception perhaps of Spence Broughton, their names and crimes are long forgotten. The Sheffield Hanged tells their story: the crimes committed, how they were tried, how they spent their last terrible hours before they were hanged, and what happened to their corpses afterwards.