Although Bristol was included on the Western Assize Summer Circuit, trials for capital offences took place at the Quarter Sessions. At least 196 people received death sentences of which 57 were carried out. Trial dates are not available. Executions took place at Gallows Acre, at the top of St. Michael’s Hill.
| Name | Crime | Execution Date |
| Joshua Harding | Housebreaking | Friday, 3 September 1736 |
| John Vernon | Stealing from a shop | Friday, 3 September 1736 |
| Both of these revived after execution | ||
| Vernon died that same evening but Harding lived to be reprieved for transportation. | ||
| James Covey | Stealing from a warehouse | Friday, 15 April 1737 |
| James Freeman | Stealing from a dwelling house | Friday 28 September 1737 |
| Thomas Boon | Riot | Friday, 14 April 1738 |
| John Hobbs | H/T coining | Monday, 18 September 1738 |
| John Kimberley | Murder of James Burgess | Friday, 4 May 1739 |
| John Phillips | Housebreaking | Friday, 4 May 1739 |
| William Roe | Stealing from a shop | Friday, 19 September 1740 |
| Jane Williams | Murder of her bastard | Friday, 17 April 1741 |
| Samuel Goodere, | Murder of Sir John Dinely Goodere | Friday, 17 April 1741 |
| Matthew Mahoney | on board his ship | Friday, 17 April 1741 |
| Mahoney hanged in chains on the bank of the River Avon. | ||
| and Charles White | in the Port of Bristol | Friday, 17 April 1741 |
| William Curtis | At large | Thursday, 8 April 1742 |
| Sarah Barrett | Stealing from a dwelling house | Friday, 13 May 1743 |
| John Woods | Forgery | Monday, 6 June 1743 |
| John Barry | Forgery | Friday, 16 May 1746 |
| Matthew Daly | Murder of William Sullivan | Friday, 26 September 1746 |
| William Nicholas | Murder of Anne Logan | Friday, 22 April 1748 |
| Jeremiah Hays | Murder of Eleanor Dillar | Friday, 25 Aug 1749 |
| John Jones | Highway robbery | Friday 24 Apr 1752 |
| Nicholas Mooney | Highway robbery | Friday 24 Apr 1752 |
| William Cudmore | At large | Friday 24 Apr 1752 |
| William Critchett | Sodomy | Wed, 12 September 1753 |
| Richard Arnold | Sodomy | Wed, 12 September 1753 |
| William Price | Not known | Wednesday, 27 March 1754 |
| Elizabeth Hind | Highway robbery | Friday, 27 September 1754 |
| Thomas Larey | Highway robbery | Friday, 27 September 1754 |
| Catherine Gardner | Murder of her female bastard | Monday, 18 August 1755 |
| William Williams | Forgery | Friday, 3 October 1755 |
| John Hobbs | Murder of Nathanial Hobbs | Thursday, 24 August 1758 |
| John Price | Stealing from a shop | Friday, 8 September 1758 |
| William Saunders | Stealing on the river | Friday, 8 September 1758 |
| William Dilon Shepherd | Sodomy | Monday, 1 June 1761 |
| Patrick Ward | Murder of Henry Morgan | Tuesday, 20 October 1761 |
| After execution his body was hanged in chains at Broad Pitt near Kingsroad. | ||
| John Cope | At large | Friday, 6 November 1761 |
| James Rendall | Burglary in a dwelling house | Friday, 24 June 1763 |
| William Dawson | Robbery in a dwelling house | Monday, 16 April 1764 |
| Thomas Usher | Stealing in a dwelling house | Monday, 14 May 1764 |
| Robert Slack | Horse theft | Friday, 9 June 1769 |
| Jonathan Britain | Uttering forged Bill of Exchange | Friday, 15 May 1772 |
| Isaac Barrett | Highway robbery | Friday, 22 April 1774 |
| Daniel Haynes | Burglary in a dwelling house | Friday, 22 September 1775 |
| Thomas Crewys | Forged Bill of Exchange | Friday, 15 May 1778 |
| Benjamin Loveday | Sodomy | Friday, 12 October 1781 |
| John Burke | Sodomy | Friday, 12 October 1781 |
| William Morley | Uttering forged Bill of Exchange | Friday, 23 May 1783 |
| William Shutler | Burglary in a dwelling house | Friday, 23 May 1783 |
| John Collins | Murder of Rebecca Butler | Friday, 8 April 1785 |
| Ambrose Cooke | Highway robbery | Friday, 6 October 1786 |
| Edward Macnamara | Uttering forged Bill of Exchange | Friday, 7 May 1790 |
| William Hungerford | Stealing in a dwelling house | Friday, 9 July 1790 |
| Robert Hamilton | Stealing in a shop | Friday, 3 May 1793 |
| Benjamin Smith | Uttering a forged Promissory Note | Friday, 24 April 1795 |
| James Baber | Uttering a forged Promissory Note | Friday, 26 April 1799 |
| James Powell | Uttering a forged Promissory Note | Friday, 26 April 1799 |
| John Dugan | Uttering a forged Promissory Note | Friday, 26 April 1799 |
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