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- Upon retirement he settled in Southport and in the 1970's spoke to BBC Radio Merseyside’s Reg Brookes about his career. In the interview Pierrepoint contradicts the view that he had become anti-capital punishment since quitting his executioner role.
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In 1956 Pierrepoint was involved in a dispute with a sheriff over payment, leading to his retirement from hanging. He ran a pub in Lancashire from the mid-1940s until the 1960s. He wrote his memoirs in 1974 in which he concluded that capital punishment was not a deterrent, although he may have changed his position subsequently.
Aug 13, 2014 · Albert Pierrepoint writing his memoirs after retiring as executioner Hulton Archive. A hangman known to have executed at least 400 men and women was asked to tell the government how he did...
In 1956, after 25 years in service, Pierrepoint abruptly retired from his role following a dispute over payment. The disagreement with a local sheriff regarding his fee for an execution became the final straw.
- Bridge to The Past
- Civilised Hanging
- Regrets
- Fraught Future
Pierrepoint came to embody our strange relationship with the institution. As the son and nephew of hangmen, he seemed to continue some kind of artisan family tradition. His oddly sympathetic public profile was established during the 1940s when he carried out multiple hangings of Nazi war criminals. By the time Pierrepoint had resigned from the exec...
The first was Pierrepoint as an efficient and professional hangman. This was a portrayal that he contributed to in his memoir and media interviews. It stressed the meticulous care he took and emphasised his speed and efficiency. It was in keeping with 20th century understandings of execution. The bodily suffering of the condemned should be minimise...
The final aspect of Pierrepoint’s cultural persona is that of the haunted hangman, traumatised by guilt and regret. It is a noteworthy portrayal because it does not draw on his self-image. In fact, it contradicts his accounts of being untroubled about those he had hanged, even if they were subsequently pardoned. Some press reports about Pierrepoint...
Maybe Pierrepoint had an easy ride. Now that it is more than half a century since anyone was hanged in Britain, we can use him to understand better how this conflicting cultural persona of the executioner has contemporary relevance in the US, where the death penalty is increasingly beset by scandal. Pierrepoint was able to construct an air of profe...
- Lizzie Seal
Apr 19, 2006 · Pierrepoint admitted after he had retired: “I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.”
Feb 9, 2024 · In his autobiography, Albert Pierrepoint skirts over the circumstances of his father’s retirement and quick decline before his death a few years later. In as far as the two were similar, it was...
Apr 27, 2006 · Albert Pierrepoint was Britain’s most prolific executioner carrying out up to 600 executions between 1932 and 1956. Upon retirement he settled in Southport and in the 1970's spoke to BBC...
