Executions in Scotland in the 20th century.

Total executions in Scotland during the 20th century : 34.

Date	Name	Prison	Victim(s)
12/11/1902	Patrick Leggett	Duke St. Glasgow	Sarah Jane Leggett
26/07/1904	Thomas Gunning	Duke St. Glasgow	Agnes Allen
14/11/1905	Pasha Liffey	Duke St. Glasgow	Mary Jane Welsh
05/03/1908	Joseph Hume	Inverness	John Barclay Smith
19/08/1908	Edward Johnstone	Perth	Jane Wallace (Withers)
16/07/1909	Alexander Edmundstone	Perth	Michael Swinton Brown
02/10/1913	Patrick Higgins	Calton Edinburgh	William Higgins, John Higgins
16/05/1917	Thomas McGuiness	Duke St. Glasgow	Alexander Imlach
11/11/1919	James Adams	Duke St. Glasgow	Mary Doyle (Kane)
26/05/1920	Albert James Fraser	Duke St. Glasgow	Henry Senior
26/05/1920	James Rollins	Duke St. Glasgow	Henry Senior
21/02/1922	William Harkness	Duke St. Glasgow	Elizabeth Benjamin
11/06/1923	John Henry Savage	Calton Edinburgh	Wilhelmina Nicolson (Grierson)
10/10/1923	Susan Newell	Duke St. Glasgow	John Johnston
30/10/1923	Philip Murray	Calton Edinburgh	William Ronald Cree
24/09/1925	John Keen	Duke St. Glasgow	Noorh Mohammed
24/01/1928	James McKay	Duke St. Glasgow	Agnes Arbuckle
03/08/1928	George Reynolds	Duke St. Glasgow	Thomas Lee
13/08/1928	Allen Wales	Saughton Edinburgh	Isabella Wales
08/02/1946	John Lyon	Barlinnie Glasgow	John Brady
06/04/1946	Patrick Carraher	Barlinnie Glasgow	John Gordon
10/08/1946	John Caldwell	Barlinnie Glasgow	James Straiton
06/02/1948	Stanislaw Miszka	Perth	Catherine McIntyre
30/10/1950	Christopher Harris	Barlinnie Glasgow	Martin Dunleavy
16/12/1950	James Robertson	Barlinnie Glasgow	Catherine McCluskey
15/09/1951	Robert Dobie Smith	Saughton Edinburgh	William Gibson
12/04/1952	James Smith	Barlinnie Glasgow	Martin Joseph Malone
29/05/1952	Patrick Gallagher Deveney	Barlinnie Glasgow	Jeannie Deveney
26/01/1953	George Francis Shaw	Barlinnie Glasgow	Michael Connolly (Conly)
23/04/1954	John Lynch	Saughton Edinburgh	Lesley Jean Nisbet (Sinclair), Margaret Curran (Johnson)
23/06/1954	George Alexander Robertson	Saughton Edinburgh	Elizabeth Robertson, George Alexander Robertson
11/07/1958	Peter Manuel	Barlinnie Glasgow	Marion Hunter McDonald Watt, Vivienne Isabella Reid Watt, Margaret Hunter Brown, Isabelle Wallace Cooke, Peter James Smart, Doris Smart, Michael Smart
22/12/1960	Anthony Miller	Barlinnie Glasgow	John Cremin
15/08/1963	Henry John Burnett	Aberdeen	Thomas Guyan

All of these executions were for murder. There were 12 hangings at Duke Street prison Glasgow, prior to closure in 1955 and then 10 at Glasgow's Barlinnie prison. 4 were carried out in Edinburgh's Saughton prison, with 3 at the Calton prison there, prior to its closure. There were 3 at Perth and one each at Aberdeen and Inverness. Susan Newell was the only woman executed.

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