Age: 40
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 24 Jan 1928
Execution Place: Glasgow, Duke Street
Method: hanging
Executioner: Robert Baxter
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
James McKay murdered his mother Agnes Arbuckle at 213 Main Street, Glasgow on 28 September 1927 who he battered and then dismembered leaving her body parts on the banks of the Clyde and in a coal bunker at her home.
see Western Daily Press - Tuesday 13 December 1927