Albert Pierrepoint, the Lancashire grocery deliveryman who doubled as England’s most prolific and self-effacing executioner between 1934 and 1956, was not, as the title of Adrian Shergold’s new drama ...
Pierrepoint explains that in Britain if he is told of a reprieve before he leaves home he does not expect to get any fee "unless they send a small sum for expense of writing". However, he said that if ...
It was a run of killings that lasted a quarter of a century. And yet when Albert Pierrepoint died in 1992, he did so a free man, having written a book about his experiences ending people's lives. The ...
When Albert Pierrepoint died in 1992, he did so at the grand age of 87 in the seaside town of Southport where he'd retired with his wife of almost 50 years. Despite killing more than 400 people, he ...
The execution diary of one of the UK's best known hangmen offers hints at the slide into drinking which ended his career in 1910, auctioneers say. Henry Albert Pierrepoint was sacked for arriving for ...
The mystery of why one of Britain's most famous hangmen left his job has been solved - -more than 90 years later. Henry Pierrepoint, who had been chief executioner, gave up abruptly in 1910. His son ...
It was a run of killings that lasted a quarter of a century. And yet when Albert Pierrepoint died in 1992, he did so a free man, having written a book about his experiences ending people's lives. The ...
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