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Mar 28, 1676 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Died on 08 Jan 1697 (aged 20)
Scottish student, last person in Britain executed for blasphemy
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About Thomas Aikenhead
- Thomas Aikenhead (c.?March 1676 – 8 January 1697) was a Scottish student from Edinburgh, who was prosecuted and executed at the age of 20 on a charge of blasphemy under the Act against Blasphemy 1661 and Act against Blasphemy 1695.
- He was the last person on the island of Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy.
- His execution happened 85 years after the death of Edward Wightman (1612), the last person to be burned at the stake for heresy in England.
