Last executions for witchcraft in America On 22 September 1692 seven women and one man were hanged for witchcraft at Salem and other places in New England.
Last beheading in the UK On 9 April 1747, 80-year-old Simon Fraser, Lord Lovat, was
beheaded for treason at Tower Hill, London. Last person to be burned at the stake in England Catherine Murphy belonged to a gang of coiners (coin forgers) She was strangled and then burnt at the stake at Newgate, London, on 18 March 1789.
Last duel in the UK
The last duel in the UK in which a person was killed was fought by two Frenchmen at Egham in Surrey. Emile (or Emanuel) Barthelemy shot Frédéric Cournet on 19 October 1852. Barthelemy was found not guilty, but two years later he was hanged for murdering another man.
Last public hanging
in the UK Michael Barrett was hanged outside Newgate Prison, London, on 26 May 1868 for the murder of Sarah Ann Hodgkinson. She was one of several victims who died from a bomb he had planted. Last witness to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln Samuel James Seymour, who died on 13 April 1956, was the last surviving witness to the assassination of the American president.
Seymour was only five years old when he saw John Wilkes Boothshoot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre, Washington DC, on
14 April 1865.
Last person executed by guillotine
The last person to be executed in public was the murderer Eugene Weidmann who had his head cut off at Versailles, France, on 17 June 1939. The last official use of the guillotine in France was on 10 September 1977, when Hamida Djandoubi was executed for murder at Baumettes Prison, Marseilles.
Crime and punishment will continue to be on the rise because there is a constant increase in the population across the globe.