Talk:James Billington (executioner)

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A fact from James Billington (executioner) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 25 September 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that James Billington's use of a longer drop than usual when hanging the prisoner immortalized as "C.T.W" in Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, stretched C.T.W's neck by eleven inches?

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