Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 4 Aug 1777
Execution Place: Staffordshire
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/staffs.html
John Martin guilty of the murder of William Broome, his apprentice, by taking him from his bed at 10 o’clock at night, carrying him down to the cellar of his house and drowning him in the large quantity of water to be found there, in the parish of Wolverhampton on 14th April 1777.
