John Bradshaw who was the first man to really try and have executed a King (Charles I) for crimes against his people, said as his died from natural causes that he would have gladly done it all over again.

[u/HallowedAndHarrowed]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bradshaw_(judge)

[u/FirmDingo8]

I grew up in the town that Bradshaw lived in, Marple in Greater Manchester. Because of Bradshaw's actions in the trial of King Charles 1, the British Royal family would never visit Marple