The Grenada Court of Oyer and Terminer opened in St George’s on 27 June 1796 to process people named in an act of attainder. Because the attainder had already declared the named people guilty, the...
On 30 June 1796, Catholic priest Pascal Mardel was among forty-seven prisoners brought before the Court of Oyer and Terminer. The court asked why execution should not be awarded; a jury found the...
After forty-seven prisoners were sentenced, Governor Alexander Houston declined to execute all of them at once and selected fourteen he considered “most notorious” for execution on 1 July 1796. The...
Pascal Mardel, a Roman Catholic priest and participant in the rebellion, was among the first seven of the fourteen selected for execution on 1 July 1796. They were publicly hanged at the Market...
