<Tr> <Th> Criminal status </Th> <Td> Executed </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Conviction (s) </Th> <Td> 16 October 1961 </Td> </Tr> <P> Robert Andrew McGladdery (18 October 1935--20 December 1961) was the last person to be executed in Northern Ireland . </P> <P> He was convicted of the murder of Pearl Gamble, aged 19, whom he had battered, strangled and stabbed to death on 28 January 1961 and whose body was discovered at Upper Damolly, near Newry, County Down . It transpired the murderer and victim were distant cousins . Pearl Gamble had gone to a dance at the Henry Thomson Memorial Orange Hall in Newry with three girlfriends . She had been seen dancing with her boyfriend and Robert McGladdery . </P>

Who was the last person to be hanged in northern ireland