attending crowd gained possession of Austin’s mortal remains, carried them back to Newgate, and dropped them there to be buried. The unruly scene deepened unease with the rowdy atmosphere of execution days. Pressure increased to close procedures at Tyburn. Suburban development in the immediate vicinity of the place of execution had been fast and furious during the later part of the eighteenth century. Residents objected to the Tyburn carnival. Austin’s execution was the last to involve a procession through London and the hanging at Tyburn. Proceedings from then on were to be conducted at the newly erected gallows immediately outside Newgate prison. The death penalty was once and for all removed from the raucous public entertainment of an urban execution. It was the first step towards a ‘private’ process of mechanized and sanitized executions that are out of sight and out of mind and does not disturb modern sensibilities.