Age: unknown
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 18 Mar 1771
Execution Place: York
Method: hanging
Executioner: unknown
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/yorkcircuit.html
Luke Atkinson guilty of the murder of William Smith by striking him with an axe and a mattock in the parish of Skelton in Cleveland on 24th November 1770.