1766: Edmund Sheehy, James Buxton, and Buck Farrell, Whiteboys

ExecutedToday.com ^ | May 3, 2019 | Headsman

[CheshireTheCat]

This account from the London Chronicle, June 5, 1766 refers to the disappearance and alleged murder of the informer John Bridge. We’ve visited this case previously, in the form of Father Nicholas Sheehy, who had also been drawn and quartered a few months previous for the Bridge affair; collectively, these cases are pretext for state reprisal against the Irish Whiteboys movement, which opposed large landholders’ moves to consolidate estates, expel tenants, and let people starve while the land that once fed them was shifted towards commercial agriculture.

[SunkenCiv]

See? Those crimes were comitted by *legal* immigrants! So there! /s.

[MrEdd]

We have some civilian entities playing about with financing and researching biological weapons with foreign governments.

We need drawing and quartering to return.

[yarddog]

Wow, the English were capable of really brutal punishment and fairly late.

That is probably the reason our Constitution forbade “cruel” punishment.

[CJ Wolf]

I am partial to the plinko guillotine machine on the mall. People can bet on what bucket of crap the head falls in.

[colorado tanker]

Sheehy was an agitator against application of the Penal Laws to Ireland The Whiteboys also agitated against the movement to enclose common lands and expand the holdings of the Anglo-Irish estates at the expense of the Catholic peasantry.

It is generally thought today that Sheehy was an innocent man framed by fabricated evidence whose execution was part of the English campaign to end the Catholic protests.