Places of execution.

20th century hangings were carried out in the following prisons :

England & Wales

Prison

Total hanged

Last execution

Prison

Total hanged

Last execution

London - Newgate

9

06/05/02

Knutsford

4

19/03/12

London - Pentonville

105 (plus 7 PoW’s
6 spies & 2 traitors)

06/07/61

Lancaster

1

15/11/10

London - Wandsworth

106 (plus 10 spies & 2 traitors)

08/09/61

Leicester

8

17/11/53

London - Holloway

5 (female)

13/07/55

Lewes

4

11/08/14

Manchester - (Strangeways)

71

13/08/64

Lincoln

17

27/01/61

Leeds - Armley

68

29/06/61

Maidstone

11

08/04/30

Durham

54

17/12/58

Newcastle

8

26/11/19

Liverpool - Walton

53

13/08/64

Northampton

3

10/11/14

Birmingham -
Winson Green

36

20/11/62

Norwich

11

19/07/51

Bedford

7

04/04/62

Nottingham

8

10/04/28

Bodmin

2

20/07/09

Oxford

8

12/08/52

Bristol

13

17/12/63

Reading

3

04/02/13

Cambridge

2

04/11/13

Ruthin

1

17/02/03

Cardiff

19

03/09/52

Shepton Mallet

4 (plus 18 US military executions)

02/03/26
(Last civilian)

Caernarfon

1

15/02/10

Shrewsbury

8

09/02/61

Chelmsford

9

04/11/14

St. Albans

2

23/12/14

Derby

4

16/0707

Stafford

8

10/03/14

Devizes

1

17/11/03

Swansea

9

06/05/58

Dorchester

2

24/06/41

Usk

4

23/03/22

Exeter

11

06/04/43

Wakefield

10

29/12/15

Gloucester

7

07/06/39

Warwick

4

15/12/08

Hereford

1

15/12/03

Winchester

16

17/12/63

Hull

10

19/12/34

Worcester

4

03/12/19

Ipswich

3

27/11/24

 

 

 

Scotland

Prison

Total hanged

Last execution

Prison

Total hanged

Last execution

Aberdeen (Craiginches)

1

15/08/1963

Inverness

1

05/03/1908

Edinburgh (Calton)

3

30/10/1923

Perth

3

02/10/1913

Edinburgh (Saughton)

4

23/06/1954

Glasgow
(Duke Street)

11 men &
1 woman

03/08/1928

 

 

 

Glasgow (Barlinnie)

10

22/12/1960

Northern Ireland & Channel Islands

Prison

Total hanged

Last execution

Prison

Total hanged

Last execution

Armagh

1

22/12/1904

Belfast (Crumlin Road)

12

20/12/1961

Londonderry

3

08/02/1923

Jersey - St. Hellier

2

09/10/1959

 

As will be seen, some prisons had very few hangings in the 65 years of the 20th century in which executions were carried out, and from around 1920 the number of prisons carrying out executions was greatly reduced.

 

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