Scottish medical student Thomas Aikenhead was only between 18 and 20 years old when he was executed for blasphemy. He was the last person in United Kingdom to be executed for this "crime". His indictment from December 1696 read "[...] the prisoner had repeatedly maintained in conversation, that theology was a rhapsody of ill-invented nonsense". He was found guilty on December 24th and sentenced to death to set an example for others who might express such views in the future. Aikenhead plead for mercy and took back all that he had said, but on January 8th was Aikenhead hanged in Edinburgh.
A research on Thomas Aikenhead and Blasphemy
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