Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 4 Aug 1794
Execution Place: Gallows Hill, Winchester
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/hants.html
Francis Jennison and William Butterworth, convicts, guilty of the murder of John Groundwater, one of their overseers within the lines of Cumberland Fort at Portsea. They were taken from the County Gaol at 4.13 in the morning arriving at the execution spot near Portsea at 10 o’clock. Their bodies wee afterwards hanged in chains at Langston Harbour.
