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Oct 5, 2024 · This is the final in a series on urban legends. Francisco Garcia’s first piece was about the cult of personality around Britain’s most prolific hangman, Albert Pierrepoint.
6 days ago · Pierrepoint actually retired a decade before Parliament ended hanging. This play is decidedly Pinteresque, dark, with convoluted dialogue, mysterious characters, twisted plotlines leading to...
Oct 17, 2024 · Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman. 1940's England. When the world needed a hero, he gave them what they wanted. But history can be cruel.
23 hours ago · Albert Pierrepoint was a British hangman who executed over 400 people, including more than 200 German war criminals in the aftermath of World War II. What apparently contradictory view did he express in his 1974 autobiography?
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Oct 25, 2024 · The film was called "Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman" for its American release, I suppose in an attempt to capture cinema-goers' attention. The title is, however, fallacious. Not only have there been countless hangmen around the world since Pierrepoint, he wasn't even the last British hangman.
Oct 25, 2024 · Comforting, confronting, and confusing him are an excellent 12 strong cast, all using thick Lancashire accents and eager to test his reactions, including the celebrated hangman Albert Pierrepoint, who became a legend in his own lifetime.
Oct 21, 2024 · As I recall, the opening scene of the 2005 movie “ Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman ” see a woman who had been executed, hanged, removed from the hangman’s rope and prepared for burial. The care, the gentleness of that scene belies the violence of the death which had been ordered as punishment for murder.
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