The Tyburn Tree: Public Execution in England

The Morbid Curiosity Podcast

Hallie Lloyd

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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CW: Detailed descriptions of execution methods and corpse desecration

Before 1868, executions in England were held in designated public spaces. One of these was famous due to its long history as a place of death and for the large number of criminals that could be executed at once. That place was Tyburn and its infamous execution apparatus was known as the Tyburn Tree.

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0:00.0	Before we begin, I'd like to thank
0:02.2	Shana Gonzalez for sending me the book,
0:04.8	Tyburn, London's Fatal Tree,
0:07.1	by Alan Brooke and David Brandon.
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0:19.6	We'd be eternally grateful for your help.
0:22.9	This episode contains discussions of capital punishment, brutal methods of execution,
0:28.9	murder, and desecration of human corpses.
0:31.8	If these topics are triggers for you, this may be a good episode to skip.
0:48.2	Music for you. This may be a good episode to skip. Humans are fascinated by gore and violence, but even more so the mysterious and unsolved.
0:55.0	Interest in these disturbing and unpleasant subjects is called morbid curiosity,
1:00.1	and it has gripped millions of people throughout the ages.
1:03.8	I am one of those people.
1:06.1	My name is Halley, and this is the Morbid Curiosity podcast.
1:40.3	Thank you. Hallie and this is the morbid curiosity podcast you know Capital Punishment, the death penalty, the bloody code. These are all official names for the practice of executing criminals, killing them as punishment
1:47.0	for actions that were judged criminal by the authorities. The first documented death penalty
1:53.0	laws date back to the 18th century BCE in Babylon. The code of King Hamurabi codified the death
2:00.6	penalty as the punishment for 25 different
2:03.5	crimes. The death penalty was codified by the Hittites in the 14th century BCE, by the Athenians as part
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