English & Welsh executions 1932 - 1964
1932
Name	Age	Date	Place	Victim(s)
George Rice	32	3rd February	Manchester	Constance Inman
William Goddard	25	23rd February	Pentonville	Charles William Lambert
George Pople	22	9th March	Oxford	Mabel Elizabeth Mathews
George Michael	49	27th April	Hull	Theresa Mary Hempstock (girlfriend)
John Roberts	23	28th April	Leeds	Alfred Gill
Thomas Riley	36	28th April	Leeds	Elizabeth Castle (girlfriend)
Maurice Freedman	36	4th May	Pentonville	Annette Friedson (girlfriend)
Charles Cowle	19	18th May	Manchester	Naomi Annie Farnworth
Ernest Hutchinson	43	23rd November	Oxford	Gwendoline Annie Warren (girlfriend)
		Total - 9
1933
Jeremiah Hanbury	49	2nd February	Birmingham	Jessie Payne (girlfriend)
Jack Puttnam	31	8th June	Pentonville	Elizabeth Mary Standley (aunt)
Richard Hetherington	36	20th June	Liverpool	Joseph Nixon, Mary Ann Nixon
Frederick Morse	34	25th July	Bristol	Doris (Dorothy) Winifred Brewer (niece)
Varnavas Antorka	31	10th August	Pentonville	Boleslar Pankorski
Robert James Kirby	26	11th October	Pentonville	Grace Ivy Newing (girlfriend)
Ernest Parker	25	6th December	Durham	Lily Parker (Scott) (sister)
William Burtoft	47	19th December	Manchester	Frances Levin
Stanley Hobday	21	29th December	Birmingham	Charles William Fox
		Total - 9
1934
Roy Gregory	28	3rd January	Hull	Dorothy Margaret Addinall (step daughter)
Ernest Brown	35	6th February	Leeds	Frederick Ellison Morton
Louis Hamilton	25	6th April	Leeds	Maud Hamilton (wife)
Reginald Hinks	32	3rd May	Bristol	James Pullen (father in law)
Albert Probert and	26	4th May	Wandsworth	Joseph Bedford
Frederick Parker	31
Harry Tuffney	36	9th October	Pentonville	Edith Kate Longshaw (girlfriend)
John Stockwell	19	14th November	Pentonville	Dudley Henry Hoard
Ethel Lillie Major (f)	42	19th December	Hull	Arthur Major (husband)
		Total - 9 (8 + 1)
1935
Fred Rushworth	29	1st January	Leeds	Daughter
David Blake	24	7th February	Leeds	Emily Yeomans
Charles Lake	37	13th March	Pentonville	George Hamblin
Leonard Brigstock	33	2nd April	Wandsworth	Hubert Sidney Deggan
Percy Anderson	21	16th April	Wandsworth	Edith Constance Drew-Bear (girlfriend)
John Bainbridge	24	9th May	Durham	Edward Frederick Herdman
John Harris Bridge	25	30th May	Manchester	Amelia Nuttall (girlfriend)
Arthur Franklin	44	25th June	Gloucester	Bessie Gladys Nott (girlfriend)
Walter Worthington	57	10th July	Bedford	Sybil Emily Worthington (wife)
George Hague	23	16th July	Durham	Amanda Sharp (girlfriend)
Raymond Bousquet	30	29th October	Wandsworth	Hilda Meek (girlfriend)
Allan Grierson	27	30th October	Pentonville	Louise Berthe Gann
		Total - 12
1936
Dorothea Waddingham (f)	36	16th April	Birmingham	Louisa Baguley, Ada Baguley
Buck Ruxton	36	12th May	Manchester	Isabella Ruxton (wife), Mary Rogerson (servant)
Frederick Field	32	30th June	Wandsworth	Beatrice Vilna Sutton
George Bryant	38	14th July	Wandsworth	Ellen Whiting (girlfriend)
Charlotte Bryant (f)	33	15th July	Exeter	Frederick Bryant (husband)
Wallace Jenden	57	5th August	Wandsworth	Alice Whye (girlfriend)
Christopher Jackson	24	16th December	Durham	Harriet Linney (aunt)
		Total - 7 (5 + 2)
1937
Max Mayer Haslam	23	4th February	Manchester	Ruth Clarkson
Andrew Bagley	62	10th February	Leeds	Irene Hart
Philip Davis	30	27th July	Exeter	Wilhelmina Davis (wife), Monica Rowe (niece)
Horace Brunt	32	12th August	Manchester	Kate Elizabeth Collier
Leslie Stone	24	13th August	Pentonville	Ruby Anne Keen (ex girlfriend)
Frederick Murphy	53	17th August	Pentonville	Rosina Field
John Rodgers	22	18th November	Pentonville	Lilian Maud Chamberlain
Ernest John Moss	28	7th December	Exeter	Kitty Bennett (girlfriend)
Frederick Nodder	44	30th December	Lincoln	Mona Tinsley
		Total - 9
1938
Walter Smith	33	8th March	Norwich	Albert Baker
Charles Caldwell	49	20th April	Manchester	Eliza Caldwell (wife)
Robert Hoolhouse	21	26th May	Durham	Margaret Jane Dobson
Jan Mohamed	30	8th June	Liverpool	Aminul Hag
Alfred Richards	38	12th July	Wandsworth	Kathleen Richards (wife)
William Graves	38	19th July	Wandsworth	Tony Ruffle (son)
William Parker	25	26th July	Durham	Jane Parker (wife)
George Brain	27	1st November	Wandsworth	Rose Muriel Atkins
		Total - 8
1939
John Daymond	19	8th February	Durham	James Percival
Harry Armstrong	38	21st March	Wandsworth	Peggy Pentecost (girlfriend)
William Butler	29	29th March	Wandsworth	Ernest Key
Ralph Smith	40	7th June	Gloucester	Beatrice Baxter (ex girlfriend)
Leonard Hucker	30	10th October	Wandsworth	Mary Moncrieff (Fullick)
Stanley Boon and	27	25th October	Wandsworth	Mabel Bundy
Arthur Smith	26	26th October
		Total - 7
1940
Peter Barnes and	32	7th February	Birmingham	Elsie Ansell, Gwilym Rowland, John Arnott, James Clay & Rex Gentle
James Richards	29
Ernest Hamerton	25	27th March	Wandsworth	Elsie Ellington (girlfriend)
William Cowell	38	24th April	Wandsworth	Anne Cook
Vincent Ostler and	24	11th July	Durham	William Shiell
William Appleby	27
Udham Singh	37	31st July	Pentonville	Sir Michael O'Dwyer
George Roberts	29	8th August	Cardiff	Arthur Allen
John Wright	41	10th September	Durham	Alice Wright (wife)
Stanley Cole	23	31st October	Wandsworth	Doris Girl
William Cooper	24	26th November	Bedford	John Harrison
Edward Scollen	42	24th December	Durham	Beatrice Scollen (wife)
		Total - 12
1941
Clifford Holmes	24	11th February	Manchester	Irene Holmes (wife)
Henry White	39	6th March	Durham	Emily Wardle (girlfriend)
Samuel Morgan	28	9th April	Liverpool	Mary Hagan
David Jennings	21	24th July	Dorchester	Albert Farley
Edward Anderson	19	31st July	Durham	William Anderson
John Smith	32	4th September	Manchester	Margaret Knight (ex girlfriend)
Eli Richards	45	19th September	Birmingham	Jane Turner
Antonio Mancini	39	31st October	Pentonville	Harry Distleman
Lionel Watson	30	12th November	Pentonville	Phyllis Crocker, Eileen Crocker (wife/daughter)
John Ernest Smith	21	3rd December	Wandsworth	Christina Dicksee (girlfriend)
Thomas Thorpe	61	23rd December	Leicester	Nellie Thorpe (wife)
		Total - 11
1942
Arthur Peach	23	30th January	Birmingham	Kitty Lyon
Harold Trevor	62	11th March	Wandsworth	Theodora Greenhill
David Williams	33	25th March	Liverpool	Elizabeth Smith (girlfriend)
Cyril Johnson	20	15th April	Wandsworth	Maggie Small
Frederick Austin	28	30th April	Bristol	Lillian Austin (wife)
Harold Hill	26	1st May	Oxford	Doreen Hearne, Kathleen Trundell
Douglas Edmondson	28	24th June	Liverpool	Imeldred Osliff (girlfriend)
Gordon Cummins	28	25th June	Wandsworth	Evelyn Hamilton, Evelyn Oatley,
				Margaret Lowe & Doris Jouannet
Arthur Anderson	52	21st July	Wandsworth	Pauline Barker (ex girlfriend)
George Silverosa &	22	10th September	Pentonville	Leonard Moules
Samuel Dashwood	23
Harold Merry	40	10th September	Birmingham	Joyce Dixon (girlfriend)
Patrick Kingston	38	6th October	Wandsworth	Sheila Wilson
William Collins	21	28th October	Durham	Margaret Rice
Herbert Bounds	42	6th November	Wandsworth	Elizabeth Bounds (wife)
		Total - 15
1943
Harry Dobkin	49	27th January	Wandsworth	Rachel Dobkin (wife)
Ronald Roberts	28	10th February	Liverpool	Nellie Pearson
William Turner	19	24th March	Pentonville	Ann Wade
Dudley Rayner	26	31st March	Wandsworth	Josephine Rayner (wife)
Gordon Trenoweth	33	6th April	Exeter	Albert Bateman
August Sangret	30	29th April	Wandsworth	Joan Wolfe (girlfriend)
Charles Raymond	23	10th July	Wandsworth	Marguerite Burge
William Quayle	52	3rd August	Birmingham	Vera Clarke
Gerald Roe	41	3rd August	Pentonville	Elsie Roe (wife)
Trevor Elvin	21	10th September	Leeds	Violet Wakefield (girlfriend)
Charles Gauthier	25	24th September	Wandsworth	Annette Pepper (girlfriend)
Terence Casey	22	19th November	Wandsworth	Bridget Mitton
Charles Koopman	23	15th December	Pentonville	Gladys Brewer, Shirley Brewer
John Dorgan	47	22nd December	Wandsworth	Florence Dorgan (wife)
Thomas James	26	29th December	Liverpool	Gwendoline Sweeney
		Total - 15
1944
Christos Georghiou	37	2nd February	Pentonville	Savvas Demetriades
Mervin McEwen	35	3rd February	Leeds	Mark Turner
Ernest Digby	34	16th March	Bristol	Dawn Digby (daughter)
Sidney Delasalle	39	13th April	Durham	Ronald Murphy
Ernest Kemp	21	6th June	Wandsworth	Iris Deeley
John Davidson	19	12th July	Liverpool	Gladys Appleton
James Galbraith	26	26th July	Manchester	James Percey
William Meffen	52	8th August	Leicester	Winifred Stanley (step daughter)
William Cowle	31	8th August	Leicester	Nora Payne (ex girlfriend)
		Total - 9
1945
Horace Gordon	28	9th January	Wandsworth	Dorothy Hillman
Andrew Brown	26	30th January	Wandsworth	Amelia Knowles
Arthur Thompson	34	31st January	Leeds	Jane Coulton
Karl Hulten	22	8th March	Pentonville	George Heath
Arthur Heys	37	13th March	Norwich	Winifred Evans
Howard Grossley	37	5th September	Cardiff	Lily Griffiths (girlfriend)
Thomas Richardson	27	7th September	Leeds	David Dewar
Joachim Goltz	20	6th October	Pentonville	Victim : Sergeant Major Wolfgang Rosterg Note : Heinz Brüling’s correct name is Heinrich-Wernhard Brüning
Kurt Zühlsdorff	20
Heinz Brüling	22
Erich Palme-König	20
& Josef Mertens	21
Ronald Mauri	32	31st October	Wandsworth	Vera Guest (girlfriend)
Armin Kuehne &	18	16th November	Pentonville	Gerhardt Rettig
Emil Schmittendorf	31
John Riley Young	40	21st December	Pentonville	Frederick Lucas, Cissie Lucas
James McNicol	30	21st December	Pentonville	Sgt. Donald Kirkaldie
Robert Blaine	24	29th December	Wandsworth	John Ritchie
		Total - 18
1946
William Batty	27	8th January	Leeds	Samuel Gray
Michal Niescior	29	31st January	Wandsworth	Charles Elphick
Charles Prescott	23	5th March	Durham	Sarah Young
Arthur Clegg	42	19th March	Wandsworth	Jill Clegg (granddaughter)
Arthur Charles	34	26th March	Durham	John Duplessis
Marion Grondkowski (m)	32	2nd April	Wandsworth	Rueben Martirosoff
Henryk Malinowski	24
Harold Berry	30	9th April	Manchester	Bernard Phillips
Martin Coffey	24	24th April	Manchester	Henry Dutton
Leonard Holmes	32	28th May	Lincoln	Peggy Holmes (wife)
Thomas Hendren	31	17th July	Liverpool	Ella Staunton (girlfriend)
Walter Clayton	22	7th August	Liverpool	Joyce Jacques (girlfriend)
Sydney John Smith	24	6th September	Wandsworth	John Whatman
David Mason	39	6th September	Wandsworth	Dorothy Mason (wife)
Neville Heath	28	16th October	Pentonville	Margery Gardner (girlfriend), Doreen Marshall
Arthur Boyce	45	1st November	Pentonville	Elizabeth McLindon (girlfriend)
Frank Freiyer	26	13th November	Wandsworth	Joyce Brierley (girlfriend)
Arthur Rushton	31	19th November	Liverpool	Catherine Cooper (girlfriend)
John Mathieson	23	10th December	Pentonville	Mona Vanderstay
		Total - 19
1947
Stanley Sheminant	28	3rd January	Liverpool	Harry Berrisford
Albert Sabin	21	30th January	Leeds	Neil MacLeod
Walter Rowland	39	27th February	Manchester	Olive Balchin
Harold Hagger (Sidney Sinclair)	45	18th March	Wandsworth	Dagmar Petrzywalkski
Frederick Reynolds	39	26th March	Pentonville	Beatrice Greenberg (girlfriend)
David Williams	26	15th April	Wandsworth	Margaret Williams (wife)
Eric Briggs	40	20th June	Leeds	Gertrude Briggs (wife)
William Smedley	38	14th August	Leeds	Edith Simmonite
John Gartside	24	21st August	Leeds	Percy Baker, Alice Baker
Charles Jenkins &	21	19th September	Pentonville	Alec de Antiquis
Christopher Geraghty	23
Eugeniusz Jurkiewicz	34	30th December	Bristol	Emily Bowers
		Total - 12
1948
George Whelpton	31	7th January	Leeds	Alison Parkin (girlfriend), Joyce & Maurice Parkin
Evan Hadyn Evans	22	3rd February	Cardiff	Rachel Allen
Walter John Cross	21	19th February	Pentonville	Percy Bushby
Stanley Clark	34	18th November	Norwich	Florence Bentley (girlfriend)
Peter Griffiths	22	19th November	Liverpool	June Devaney
George Russell	45	2nd December	Oxford	Minnie Lee
Clifford Wills	31	9th December	Cardiff	Sillvinea Parry (girlfriend)
Arthur Osborne	28	30th December	Leeds	Ernest Westwood
		Total - 8
1949
Margaret "Bill" Allen (f)	42	12th January	Manchester	Nancy Chadwick
George Semini	24	27th January	Liverpool	Joseph Gibbons
Kenneth Strickson	21	22nd March	Lincoln	Irene Phillips
James Farrell	19	29th March	Birmingham	Joan Marney
Harry Lewis	21	21st April	Pentonville	Harry Michaelson
Dennis Neville	22	2nd June	Leeds	Marian Poskitt
Bernard Cooper	40	21st June	Pentonville	Mary Cooper (wife)
Sydney Chamberlain	31	28th July	Winchester	Doreen Messenger (girlfriend)
Rex Harvey Jones	21	4th August	Swansea	Beatrice Watts
Robert Mackintosh	21	4th August	Swansea	Beryl Beechey
John George Haigh	40	10th August	Wandsworth	William Donald McSwann, William McSwann,
				Amy McSwann, Archibald Henderson,
				Rosalie Henderson, Olive Duran-Deacon
William Davies	30	16th August	Wandsworth	Lucy Wilson (girlfriend)
William Jones	31	28th September	Pentonville	Waltraut Lehman
John Wilson	26	13th December	Durham	Lucy Nightingale
Benjamin Roberts	23	13th December	Durham	Lillian Vickers
Ernest Couzins	49	30th December	Wandsworth	Victor Elias
		Total - 16 (15 + 1)
1950
Daniel Raven	23	6th January	Pentonville	Leopold Goodman, Esther Goodman (in laws)
James Rivett	21	8th March	Norwich	Christine Cuddon (girlfriend)
Timothy John Evans	25	9th March	Pentonville	Beryl Evans, Geraldine Evans (wife/daughter)
George Kelly	27	28th March	Liverpool	Leonard Thomas, John Bernard Catterall
Piotr Maksimowski	33	29th March	Birmingham	Dilys Campbell (girlfriend)
Walter Sharpe	20	30th March	Leeds	Abraham Levine
Albert Jenkins	38	19th April	Swansea	William Llewellyn
Zbigniew Gower &	23	7th July	Winchester	Robert Taylor
Roman Redel	23
George Brown	23	11th July	Durham	Mary Longhurst (girlfriend)
Ronald Atwell	24	13th July	Bristol	Lily Palmer
John Walker	48	13th July	Durham	Francis Wilson
Albert Price	32	16th August	Wandsworth	Doris (wife) Jennifer & Maureen (daughters)
Patrick Turnage	31	14th November	Durham	Julia Beesley
Norman Goldthorpe	40	24th November	Norwich	Emma Howe
James Corbitt	37	28th November	Manchester	Eliza Wood (girlfriend)
Edward Woodfield	49	14th December	Bristol	Ethel Worth
Nicholas Crosby	22	19th December	Manchester	Ruth Massey
		Total - 18
1951
Frank Griffin	40	4th January	Shrewsbury	Jane Edge
Nenad Kovacevic	29	26th January	Manchester	Radomir Djorovic
William Watkins	49	3rd April	Birmingham	Unnamed son
Edward Smith &	33	25th April	Wandsworth	Frederick Gosling
Joseph Brown	33
James Virrels	56	26th April	Wandsworth	Alice Roberts
James Inglis	29	8th May	Manchester	Alice Morgan
William Shaughnessy	48	9th May	Winchester	Marie & Joyce Shaughnessy (wife/daughter)
John Dand	32	12th June	Manchester	Walter Wyld
Jack Wright	31	3rd July	Manchester	Mona Mather
Dennis Moore	22	19th July	Norwich	Eileen Cullen (girlfriend)
Alfred Reynolds	25	19th July	Norwich	Ellen Ludkin (girlfriend)
John O'Connor	29	24th October	Pentonville	Eugenie le Maire
Herbert Mills	19	11th December	Lincoln	Mabel Tattershaw
		Total - 14
1952
Horace Carter	31	1st January	Birmingham	Sheila Attwood
Alfred Bradley	24	15th January	Manchester	George Camp
Alfred Moore	36	6th February	Leeds	Duncan A. Fraser, Arthur Jagger
Herbert Harris	23	26th February	Manchester	Eileen Harris (wife)
Tahir Ali	39	21st March	Durham	Evelyn McDonald (girlfriend)
Edward Devlin &	22	25th April	Liverpool	Alice Rimmer
Alfred Burns	21
Ajit Singh	27	7th May	Cardiff	Joan Thomas (girlfriend)
Backary Manneh	25	27th May	Pentonville	Joseph Aaku
Harry Huxley	43	8th July	Shrewsbury	Ada Royce (girlfriend)
Thomas Eames	31	15th July	Bristol	Muriel Bent (girlfriend)
Frank Burgess	21	22nd July	Wandsworth	Johanna Hallahan
Oliver George Butler	24	12th August	Oxford	Rose Meadows (girlfriend)
Mahmood Mattan	28	3rd September	Cardiff	Lily Volpert (later found innocent)
John Howard Godar	31	5th September	Pentonville	Maureen Cox (girlfriend)
Dennis Muldowney	41	30th September	Pentonville	Countess Krystyna Skarbek
Raymond Cull	25	30th September	Pentonville	Jean Cull (wife)
Peter Johnson	24	9th October	Pentonville	Charles Mead
Donald Neil Simon	32	23rd October	Shrewsbury	Eunice Simon (wife), Victor Brades
Eric Norcliffe	30	12th December	Lincoln	Kathleen Norcliffe (wife)
John Livesey	23	17th December	Wandsworth	Stephanie Small (mother in law)
Leslie Green	29	23rd December	Birmingham	Alice Wiltshaw
Herbert Appleby	21	24th December	Durham	John Thomas
		Total - 23
1953
John James Alcott	22	2nd January	Wandsworth	Geoffrey Dean
Derek Bentley	19	28th January	Wandsworth	PC Sydney Miles
Miles Giffard	27	24th February	Bristol	Charles & Elizabeth Giffard (parents)
John Todd	20	19th May	Liverpool	George Walker
John Christie	55	15th July	Pentonville	Ruth Fuerst, Muriel Eady, Beryl Evans,
				Ethel Christie (wife), Kathleen Maloney,
				Rita Nelson & Hectorina MacLennan
Philip Henry	25	30th July	Leeds	Flora Gilligan
Louisa Merrifield (f)	46	18th September	Manchester	Sarah Ricketts
John Greenway	27	20th October	Bristol	Beatrice Court
John Reynolds	31	17th November	Leicester	Janet Warner
Stanislaw Juras	43	17th December	Manchester	Irene Wagner
John Wilkinson	24	18th December	Wandsworth	Miriam Gray
Alfred Whiteway	22	22nd December	Wandsworth	Barbara Songhurst, Christine Reed
George Newland	21	23rd December	Pentonville	Henry Tandy
		Total - 13 (12 + 1)
1954
Robert Moore	26	5th January	Leeds	Edward Watson
Czelslaw Kowalewski	32	8th January	Manchester	Doris Douglas (girlfriend)
Desmond Hooper	27	26th January	Shrewsbury	Betty Smith
Wilhelm Lubina	42	27th January	Leeds	Charlotte Ball
James Doohan	24	14th April	Wandsworth	Herbert Ketley
Albert George Hall	46	22nd April	Leeds	Mary Hackett
Thomas Harries	25	28th April	Swansea	John Harries, Phoebe Harries (uncle/aunt)
Kenneth Gilbert &	22	17th June	Pentonville	George Smart
Ian Arthur Grant	24
Milton Taylor	23	22nd June	Liverpool	Marie Bradshaw (girlfriend)
William Hepper	62	11th August	Wandsworth	Margaret Spevick
Harold Fowler	21	12th August	Lincoln	Kenneth Mulligan
Edward Reid	24	1st September	Leeds	Arthur White
Rupert Wells	53	1st September	Wandsworth	Nellie Officer (girlfriend)
Styllou Christofi (f)	53	15th December	Holloway	Hella Christofi (daughter in law)
		Total - 15 (14 + 1)
1955
William Salt	43	29th March	Liverpool	Dennis Shenton
Sydney Clarke	33	14th April	Wandsworth	Rose Fairhurst
Winston Shaw	39	4th May	Leeds	Jean Tate (ex girlfriend)
James Robinson	27	24th May	Lincoln	Mary Dodsley
Richard Gowler	43	21st June	Liverpool	Mary Boothroyd
Kenneth Roberts	24	12th July	Lincoln	Mary Roberts
Ruth Ellis (f)	28	13th July	Holloway	David Blakely (boyfriend)
Frederick Cross	33	26th July	Birmingham	Donald Lainton
Norman Green	25	27th July	Liverpool	William Harmer, Norman Yates
Corbett Roberts	46	2nd August	Birmingham	Doris Roberts (wife)
Ernest Harding	42	9th August	Birmingham	Evelyn Higgins
Alec Wilkinson	22	12th August	Leeds	Clara Farrell (mother in law)
		Total - 12 (11 + 1)
1956 There were no executions in this year whilst the Homicide Act of 1957 was being formulated.
1957		Homicide Act of 1957 applies from here on
John Vickers	22	23rd July	Durham	Jane Duckett
Dennis Howard	24	4th December	Birmingham	David Keasey
		Total - 2
1958
Vivian Teed	24	6th May	Swansea	William Williams
Matthew Kavanagh	32	12th August	Birmingham	Isaiah Dixon
Frank Stokes	44	3rd September	Durham	Linda Ash
Brian Chandler	20	17th December	Durham	Martha Dodd
		Total - 4
1959
Ernest Jones	39	10th February	Leeds	Richard Turner
Joseph Chrimes	30	28th April	Pentonville	Norah Summerfield
Ronald Marwood	25	8th May	Pentonville	Raymond Summers
Michael Tatum	24	14th May	Winchester	Charles Barrett
Bernard Walden	35	14th August	Leeds	Joyce Moran, Neil Saxton
Guenther Podola	30	5th November	Wandsworth	DS Raymond William Purdy
		Total - 6
1960
John Constantine	23	1st September	Lincoln	Lily Perry
Norman Harris and	23	10th November	Pentonville Wandsworth	Allan Jee
Francis Forsyth	18
		Total - 3
1961
Wasyl Gnypiuk	34	27th January	Lincoln	Louise Surgey
George Riley	21	9th February	Shrewsbury	Adeline Smith
Jack Day	31	29th March	Bedford	Keith Arthur
Victor John Terry	20	25th May	Wandsworth	John Pull
Zsiga Pankotia	31	29th June	Leeds	Eli Myers
Edwin Bush	21	6th July	Pentonville	Elsie Batten
Henryk Niemasz	49	8th September	Wandsworth	Hubert Buxton, Alice Buxton (girlfriend)
		Total - 7
1962
James Hanratty	25	4th April	Bedford	Michael Gregsten
Oswald Grey	20	20th November	Birmingham	Thomas Bates
James Smith	26	28th November	Manchester	Sarah Cross
		Total - 3
1963
Russell Pascoe	24	17th December	Bristol	William Garfield Rowe
Dennis Whitty	22		Winchester
		Total - 2
1964
Peter Anthony Allen	22	13th August	Liverpool	John Alan West
Gwynne Owen Evans	24		Manchester
(real name John Robson Walby)		Total - 2
Spies and traitors
17 men were executed for spying during World War II. One of them was shot by military firing squad at the Tower of London, the remainder being hanged at Pentonville (6) and Wandsworth (9). A further two men were hanged at Wandsworth for Treason after the War
Name	Age	Date		Place
José Waldburg and	25	10th December, 1940		Pentonville
Carl Meier	24
Charles Kieboom	26	17th December, 1940		Pentonville
George Armstrong	39	9th July, 1941		Wandsworth
Werner Heinrich Walti &	34	6th August, 1941		Wandsworth
Karle Theo Drücke	25
Josef Jakobs	43	14th August, 1941		Shot at the Tower of London
Karel Richard Richter	29	10th December, 1941		Wandsworth
Alphonse Louis Eugene Timmerman &	28	7th July, 1942		Wandsworth
José Estella Key	34
Duncan Scott-Ford	21	3rd November, 1942		Wandsworth
Johannes Dronkers	46	31st December, 1942		Wandsworth
Franciscus Johannes Winter	40	26th January, 1943		Wandsworth
Oswald John Job	58	16th March, 1944		Pentonville
Pierre Richard Neukermans	28	23rd June, 1944		Pentonville
Joseph Vanhove	27	12th July, 1944		Pentonville
John Amery	33	19th December, 1945 (Treason)		Wandsworth
William Joyce (“Lord Haw Haw”)	39	3rd January, 1946 (Treason)		Wandsworth
Theodore Schurch	27	4th January, 1946 (Treachery)		Pentonville
		Total - 16
US Servicemen
18 American servicemen were executed at Shepton Mallet During World War II, under US Military jurisdiction.
Name	Age	Date		Crime (method)
David Cobb	21	12th March, 1943		Murder of Robert Cobnor (hanged)
Harold A. Smith		25th June, 1943		Murder of Henry Jenkins (hanged)
Lee A Davis		14th December, 1943		Murder of Cynthia Lay (hanged)
John Waters	39	10th February, 1944		Murder of Doris Staples (hanged)
J.C. Leatherberry		16th March, 1944		Murder of Henry Hailstone (hanged)
Wiley Harris		26th May, 1944		Murder of Harry Coogan (hanged)
Alex Miranda	20	30th May, 1944		Murder of Thomas Evison (shot)
Eliga Brinson and		11th August, 1944		Rape of Dorothy Holmes(hanged)
Willie Smith
Madison Thomas		12th October, 1944		Rape of Beatrice Reynolds (hanged)
Benjamin Pyegate		28th November, 1944		Murder of James Alexander (shot)
Ernest Clarke and		8th January, 1945		Murder of Elizabeth Green (hanged)
Augustine Guerra
Robert Pearson and		17th March, 1945		Rape of Joyce Brown (hanged)
Parson Jones
William Harrison		7th April, 1945		Murder of Patricia Wylie (hanged)
George Smith		8th May, 1945		Murder of Eric Teichman (hanged)
Aniceto Martinez		15th June, 1945		Rape of Agnes Cope (hanged)
		Total - 18		For more details on these cases click here

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The hanged 1900 - 1932

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The female hanged 1868 - 1955

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