Tag: tradition

• Newgate Prison: Ask not for whom the Bell tolls…

  

  Now here’s a real criminal curiosity, the infamous Execution Bell from London’s notorious Newgate Prison. Accounts of executions, themselves a grim British tradition until the 1960’s, often relate stories of a black flag being raised and a prison bell tolling to announce a prisoner’s death. These are true, at least after public executions ended with…

  CrimeScribe

  August 8, 2018

  History, True Crime, Uncategorized

  capital punishment, crime and punishment, crime history, criminal history, criminology, death, death penalty, Death Row, death sentence, death warrant, Doctor Crippen, Dr. Crippen, executed, execution, gallows, hanging, hangman, History, law and order, London, murder, Newgate, Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, Pentonville, Pentonville Prison, prison, St. Sepulchre’s Church, tradition