John George Haigh

 John George Haigh murdered people for money, then dissolved the bodies in acid. John George Haigh was hanged on 10 August 1949. 

Henry Wirz was hanged

 On 10 November Henry Wirtz, the commander of a Confederate POW camp near Andersonville, Georgia was hanged. He was blamed for the terrible conditions in the camp but his execution is controversial.

The Night of Broken Glass

 9-10 November 1938 was the night of broken glass in Germany. During anti-Jewish rioting 36 people were killed, 7,000 shops were looted and 267 synagogues were burnt down. A leading Nazi Hermann Goering said 'They should have killed more Jews and broken less glass'.

The end of Capital Punishment in Britain

 On 8 November 1965, in Britain an act to abolish the death penalty for murder received the royal assent, making it law. Capital punishment for murder was permanently abolished in 1969.

Franz Muller

  Franz Muller, a German, was the first person to murder someone on a train in Britain.  

Burke and Hare - they murdered people then sold the bodies

  Burke and Hare are often called grave robbers. In reality, they did not rob graves. Instead, they murdered people and then sold the victims’ bodies to surgeons for dissection.

The Pillory

 The pillory was a wooden frame on a pole with holes through which a person’s head and hands were placed. The frame was then locked, and the person was subjected to humiliation. The stocks were a wooden frame with holes through which a person’s feet were placed, and they were humiliated in the same way.

The use of the pillory and stocks went out of favour in the 19th century. The pillory was abolished in Britain in 1837, and the stocks were last used in 1872.