The executioner is the name given to the person who executes criminals. There were male and female executioners. They wore a hood over there head to protect their identities. During the tudor times there were over 70,000 people executed.
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| A Guillotine |
There were lots of different ways to execute people like beheading, stocks, hanging, ducking and stoning. There were various weapons used to behead people for example: an axe, sword, wire, knife, or a guillotine.
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| The Gallows |
People were executed for a number of different crimes like poisoning people, not wearing a hat on a Sunday, stealing, and rubbish throwing. Before getting punished they would go to jail and if it was a really serious crimes they would go to the tower of London and get executed straight away; sometimes without a trial.
It was very hard for some executioners to execute someone and it was always the same person who does the executing.
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| An executioners axe |
One Queen, Lady Jane Grey, was beheaded at the age of 16.
