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Pierrepoint and his wife ran their pub until they retired to the seaside town of Southport in the 1960s. In 1974 he published his autobiography, Executioner: Pierrepoint . He died on 10 July 1992, aged 87, in the nursing home where he had lived for the last four years of his life.
Sep 19, 2021 · Albert Pierrepoint on honeymoon with his wife, September 1952. Albert's father, Henry, and uncle were official hangmen before him and it was with his Uncle Tom that he carried out his first execution as an assistant executioner in 1932 when he was 27.
Sep 14, 2023 · Albert Pierrepoint on honeymoon with his wife, Annie Fletcher, September 1952 (Image: Mirrorpix) Between 1932 and 1956, at least 433 men and 17 women died at the end of his rope.
Feb 11, 2019 · Soon after he married a Manchester woman, Mary Buxton, at Newton Heath, the elder Pierrepoint was added to the Home Office’s approved list of hangmen, having written to them repeatedly to ...
Feb 9, 2024 · Despite an outpouring of public sympathy, she was sentenced to death after a day-long trial. Albert Pierrepoint was the executioner for all three.
Jun 30, 2019 · Corbitt had been in Pierrepoint's pub the night he went on to strangle his sometime girlfriend Eliza Wood in a jealous rage at her flat in Ashton-under-Lyne. And it was the landlord who was...
Sep 15, 2023 · Retired hangman Albert Pierrepoint out for a stroll with his wife Anne in 1965 (Image: Mirrorpix via Getty Images)
