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41st year  -  N° 166                 Monday, 15 June 2026         Antwerpen		
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Tuesday 30th of September 1902
124 years, 8 months and 15 days ago




Murderer John McDonald is executed by hanging by William Billington at the age of 23 in HM Prison Pentonville, Caledonian Road, Islington, London, Greater London, United Kingdom.


McDonald was the first man to hang at Pentonville Prison. Chief executioner Albert Pierrepoint would later find it "the finest scaffold in the world".