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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