I found this interesting and upvoted accordingly but I'm hoping to hear why it was submitted. Is there some context we should know about?
Reading about their daily struggles gives events from that time a whole new image.
BTW, I found extremely interesting that they gave the condemned an interview which they then wrote down ( http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=OA17160127 ).
How many average people from that time have the luxury of their lives being recorded for future people to see? How many of us have that today?
Even accounting for the religiosity of the condemned, they seem remarkably keen to confess to long histories of criminal behaviour and repent of their sins rather than question the system that had condemned them.