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- In early August 2014 the remains of Burnett were exhumed from the prison and taken to Aberdeen Crematorium, where a private ceremony was held on 7 August.
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Shortly afterwards, Burnett's body was buried in an unmarked grave within the walls of the prison, as was customary. [4] [5] Craiginches Prison closed permanently in January 2014 and the grounds were ear-marked for redevelopment.
Aug 11, 2020 · The next morning, Burnett was led to the specially constructed execution chamber within Craiginches and barely a minute later he was dead. His body was buried on a grass slope behind where he...
Jul 1, 2023 · Burnett, who was only 21, was hanged just three months after he shot merchant seaman Thomas Guyan, in Aberdeen, in May 1963. He was sentenced to death despite pleas from Guyan's own...
- Norman Silvester
Aug 15, 2023 · History was made in Aberdeen on August 15 1963 when Henry John Burnett was the last man hanged. The controversial decision sparked the end of the death penalty in Scotland.
Aug 14, 2013 · The scene of Burnett's execution was Craiginches prison in Aberdeen. His crime was murder. It was a crime of passion carried out after Burnett found himself ensnared in a complex love...
Jul 16, 2013 · Henry John Burnett was 21 when he was executed at Aberdeen’s Craiginches at 8am on 15 August, 1963, after being convicted of the murder of his lover’s sailor husband, Thomas Guyan. Burnett murdered the merchant seaman by blasting him in the face with a shotgun.
21 year old Henry Burnett became the last person hanged in Scotland in the newly constructed Condemned Suite at Craiginches Prison in Aberdeen at 8 am. on Thursday the 15th of August 1963. He was to die for the murder of 27 year old merchant seaman, Thomas Guyan, on the 31st of May 1963. Background.
