Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: sodomy
Date Of Execution: 6 Aug 1787
Execution Place: Heavitree Gallows
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/devon.html
Monday, 6 August 1787 (Exeter Flying Post)
Thomas Crispin (aged 45) guilty of committing sodomy on Hugh Gribble (aged 29). They were both paupers in the Poor House at Pilton near Barnstaple. He was hanged at 6 o’clock in the morning.
