Age: 49
Sex: male
Crime: murder
Date Of Execution: 3 Apr 1951
Execution Place: Birmingham
Method: hanging
Executioner: Albert Pierrepoint
Source: http://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/
William Arthur Watkins murdered his newborn son who he drowned at 6 Back 69 Clifton Road, Balsall Heath, Birmingham on 21 January 1951.
The child was the eleventh child he had fathered.
see National Archives - PCOM 9/2067, HO 45/25675 (closed) and ASSI 88/71
