Age: 31
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 21 Feb 1922
Execution Place: Glasgow, Duke Street
Method: hanging
Executioner: John Ellis
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Harkness and Helen Harkness were convicted of the murder of 14-year-old Elizabeth Benjamin and sentenced to death, although Helen Harkness had her sentence commuted.
They battered and asphyxiated her to death at their house, 67 George Street, Whiteinch, Glasgow on 31 October 1921.
see National Records of Scotland - AD15/22/1, HH16/7
see Edinburgh Evening News - Monday 06 February 1922
see Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 31 January 1922
see Homicide 1922
