Just heard on the radio that Jarrow council are putting up a memorial to Billy Jobling, the last man to be hanged and gibbeted in England.
The man was convicted of murdering a magistrate, but is now reckoned to've been innocent.
He was hanged and placed into a gibbet for six weeks, during the miner's strike in 1832. (that recent?). He, coincidentally, just happened to be a miner.
Nowadays, he'd have probably got a community order.