Noone's planning to pardon my sometime neighbour Dick Turpin, I imagine. And in fact, I think he'd be highly insulted at the idea.

Here's a contemporary report about his hanging which I posted on the current Sorcha Dorcha thread

The reason I posted it there is because InOBU's got a good version of Turpin Hero on his CD (Incidentally the DT version of that, DICK TURPIN AND THE LAWYER, is from Nova Scotia with the chorus given as "Eh ro, Turpin I ro", instead of "Hoorah, Turpin Hero".) :

So here is the extract from The Gentleman's Magazine of the time, about the execution, which took place on April 7 1739, (it's taken from a book about highwaymen called Stand and Deliver by Patrick Pringle):

The notorious Richard Turpin and John Stead, were executed at York for horse-stealing. Turpin behaved in an undaunted manner; as he mounted the ladder, feeling his right leg tremble, he stamped it down, and looking around him with an unconcerned air, he spoke a few words to the topsman, then threw himself off, and expired in five minutes.

He declared himself to be the notorious highwayman Turpin, and confessed to a great number of robberies, and that he shot the man that came to apprehend him on Epping Forest, and King, his own companion, undesignedly, for which latter he was very sorry.

He gave £3 10s to five men who were to follow the cart as mouners, with hatbands and gloves to them and several others.

Jumping off the ladder was an unusual way to do it. Maybe he had some cunning plan. It made for a speedier death - but required courage. (And InOBU reckon he got away in spite of it all, and went off to live as a Rom in Scotland.)