Execution Dock on the Thames foreshore at Wapping is identified by its proximity to the low-tide mark where, for over four hundred years, the British Admiralty conducted public hangings for crimes committed at sea. This site functioned as a grim legal stage for pirates, smugglers, and mutineers whose deaths were meant to demonstrate the reach of the High Court of the Admiralty.
Execution Dock
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