Some Chilling Facts About Capital Punishment

from Bob Jeffrey's book “History of Barlinnie”

A total of 10 judicial executions by hanging took place at HMP Barlinnie between 1946, replacing the gallows at Duke Street Prison, and 1960, before the final abolition of Capital punishment in the United Kingdom  for murder in 1969:

 

Date	Name	Age (years)
8 February 1946	John Lyon	21
6 April 1946	Patrick Carraher	39
10 August 1946	John Caldwell	20
30 October 1950	Christopher Harris	28
16 December 1950	James Robertson	33
12 April 1952	James Smith	22
29 May 1952	Patrick Gallagher Deveney	42
26 January 1953	George Francis Shaw	25
11 July 1958	Peter Manuel	31
22 December 1960	Anthony Miller	19

Each of the condemned men had been convicted of murder. All the executions took place at 8.00 am. As was the custom, the remains of all executed prisoners were the property of the state, and were therefore buried in unmarked graves within the walls of the prison. During the D hall renovations of 1997, the prison gallows cell (built into D-hall) was finally demolished and the remains of all the executed prisoners were exhumed for reburial elsewhere.