Tag: bloody assizes

• On This Day in 1689; Judge Jeffreys, who gave them enough rope.

  

  The original ‘Hanging Judge’ his name became a byword for bias, ruthlessness, callousness and cruelty, Jeffreys would die as a prisoner himself.

  CrimeScribe

  April 18, 2018

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