Age: 37
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 21 Mar 1922
Execution Place: Durham
Method: hanging
Executioner: Thomas Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
James Hutton Williamson was convicted of the murder of his wife 38-year-old Mary Williamson and sentenced to death.
He cut her throat at Houghton-le-Spring on 7 January 1922, nearly severing her head.
see National Archives - HO 144/1763/430313
see Homicide 1922
