Related events:

1. Monday 19th of November 1877 (-) — Murderer William Hassel is executed by hanging by William Marwood
   

2. Monday 23rd of February 1885 (x) — Murderer John Lee is brought upon the scaffold three times to be hanged but the trapdoor refuses to open upon each attempt despite being carefully tested by executioner James Berry
   Lee continued to petition successive Home Secretaries and was finally released in 1907.

3. Wednesday 18th of December 1907 (x) — Murderer John Lee is released from prison
   On 23 February 1885 three attempts were made to carry out Lee's execution. All ended in failure as the trapdoor of the scaffold failed to open despite being carefully tested by executioner James Berry beforehand. As a result Home Secretary Sir William Harcourt commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.

4. Friday 24th of March 1922 (-) — Murderer Edward Black is executed by hanging by John Ellis
   

5. Wednesday 15th of July 1936 (-) — Murderess Charlotte Bryant is executed by hanging by Thomas Pierrepoint