Belfast Executions

Belfast Executions tells the story of the seventeen men who were executed at HMP Belfast from 1845 until Christmas week 1961. Their crimes are explored in fine detail. Read about the seventeen year-old soldier executed by the hangman who was serving time at the prison for ABH or the story of the thirteenth person executed on Friday the thirteenth for the murder of a turkish giant. These and many others are presented by two of Belfast's best known local historians, Michael Liggett and Joe Baker.