1683 July 25
Three Roman Catholic priests, Nicholas Garlick, Robert Ludlam, and Richard Sympson, suffered martyrdom at Derby, being hanged drawn and quartered.

1608
Five men and a woman executed at Tapton Bridge, Chesterfield, the Assizes having been held at Chesterfield owing to the prevalence of the plague at Derby.

1665 March 14
Woman pressed to death in the County of Derby, as a mute.
(This awful punishment was pronounced on those who refused to plead and remained mute.
Before the inflection of the sentence the accused was warned three times of the penalty which would attend obstinate silence, and allowed a short time for consideration.
If the prisoner still persisted in silence, the Judgement of Penance, as it was termed, was thus pronounced: "That you be taken back to the prison whence you came to a low dungeon into which no light can enter; that you be laid on your back on the bare floor, with a cloth round your loins, but elsewhere naked; that there be set on your body a weight of iron, as great as you can bear - and greater; that you have no sustenance save, on the first day three morsels of the coarsest bread, on the second day three draughts of stagnant water from the pool nearest the prison door, on the third day again three morsels of bread as before, and such bread and such water alternately from day to day until you die".
This is the last known instance of this awful penalty being carried into effect).

1693
Girl in farm service at Swanwick burnt for murdering her master.
This was the last case in Derbyshire of death by burning at the stake.

1732 March 23
John Hewitt and Rosamund Clerenshaw executed for poisoning Hannah Hewitt at Derby.
(They were executed in their shrouds).

1738 March 2
Richard Woodward hanged at Derby for highway robbery.

1757
Thomas Hulley hanged for returning from transportation.

1785 April 1
William and George Grooby and James Peat, for burglary at Derby.
("It is now more than sixty years," says the Mercury, "since there were so many executed at one time upon our gallows; the persons who suffered then were named Rock, Lyon, and Shaw, and we believe their crime was counterfeiting the current coin of the realm. Peat wrote on the prison doors with chalk:
'Calm and Composed,
my soul a journey takes;
No guilt that troubles,
nor a heart that akes.)

1788 March 29
Thomas Grundy hanged for murdering his brother.
(After execution his body was publicly dissected in the presence of a great number of spectators).

1795 April 10
Thomas Neville, for burglary.
(He was carried to execution in a Mourning coach, attended by a hearse; where he assisted his executioner to fasten the rope to the tree, after which he drew his cap over his face and leapt from the cart into eternity)

1803 March 19
William Wells, for murder at Barlborough.
(About a minute after he had been hanged the rope slipped and he fell to the ground; the executioner was therefore under the necessity of tying him up a second time. His body was given to the surgeons for dissection).

1813 April 9
Paul Mason, Richard Hibbert and Peter Henshaw, for burglary.
(They were executed on the new drop, in front of the County Gaol, before an immense crowd of spectators).

1815 March 8
Anthony Lingard, for murder. The last case of gibbetting in the County of Derby.
(The body was afterwards removed to Wardlow Miers, and hung in chains near to the house where the crime was perpetrated.
This was the last case of gibbetting in the County of Derby. Lingard's brother William was 11 years later sentenced at Derby Assizes for highway robbery and assault, and was reprieved. William Lingard committed the robbery within view of the gibbett on which the bleaching bones of his brother were hanging)

1817 August 15
John Brown, Thomas Jackson, George Booth and John King, for arson at North Wingfield.
(In describing the execution the "Derby Mercury" of that date says: "As every fact which may tend to illustrate the principles of human action deserves notice, it is worth observing that a heavy shower happening whilst the doomed men were singing the hymn, two of them deliberately retreated to the shelter of an umbrella which was expanded on the drop, and a third placed himself under cover of the doorway.
The inconvenience of being wet was felt and avoided by men who knew they had not five minutes longer to live !!").

1817 November 7
Brandreth, Ludlam, and Turner, the "Pentrich Plotters", executed at Derby.
The last instance of the old penalty of high treason, hanging, drawing and quartering.
(Cavalry stood on guard during the execution. The prisoners were first dragged round the prison yard on hurdles, were then hanged for half an hour, and their bodies afterwards cut down.
The executioner then struck the heads off the bodies and seizing the head of Brandreth by the hair, showed the ghastly countenance to the multitude, exclaiming: "Behold the head of the traitor, Jeremiah Brandreth.
The crowd, "as if under the impulse of a sudden frenzy," separated in all directions, but equanimity was restored, "and the separation and exhibition of the remaining heads was witnessed with the greatest order and decorum".
The executioners were masked and their names were kept a profound secret. The poet Shelley witnessed the scene.
The block is still to be seen in Derby Prison, where its wood hangs damp always damp - so it has been averred - it has given rise to the tradition that the block of the unhappy men has not dried and never will).

1819 March 22
Hannah Docking (aged 16), for poisoning another little girl.

1847 April 1
John Platts, for murder at Chesterfield.
(This was a public execution in front of the County Gaol, and was witnessed by 20,000 people).

1862 April 11
Richard Thorley, for the murder of Eliza Morrow.
(The last public execution in Derby).

1881 November 21
Alfred Gough, for the murder of Eleanor Windley aged six, at Brimington.

1888 August 10
Arthur Thomas Delaney, for the murder of his wife at Chesterfield.

1902 July 30
John Bedford, for the murder of Nacy Price at Duckmanton.

1905 December 29
John Silk, for the murder of his mother at Chesterfield.