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- After executing so many hated Nazis, Pierrepoint became famous as a sort of quasi-war hero and also made enough money to buy a pub named The Poor Struggler outside Manchester (while still carrying out executions when the need arose).
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Albert Pierrepoint (/ ˈ p ɪər p ɔɪ n t / PEER-point; 30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father Henry and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him.
- The Beginnings of An Executioner
- Executing Nazis and Beyond
- Albert Pierrepoint’S Legacy and Craft
- His Views on Capital Punishment
Albert Pierrepoint, born March 30, 1905 in Yorkshire, was always going to be an executioner. At the age of just 11, Pierrepoint wrote in an essay, “When I leave school I should like to be the Official Executioner.” But Pierrepoint’s morbid dreams didn’t come about by accident. His father and uncle were both executioners, and Pierrepoint wanted to c...
Just after the close of World War II, Britain’s most famous executioner truly made a name for himself by hanging approximately 200 war criminals, many of them Nazis. Between 1945 and 1949, Pierrepoint traveled to Germany and Austria more than 20 times in order to execute some of the most disturbing Nazis to have committed atrocities during the war....
The reason that Albert Pierrepoint was able to become so famous — the reason he was called upon to kill people again and again — is that he developed a reputation for being extremely quick, calm, and efficient during his executions. The mark of a good executioner is, among other things, that they properly size the noose and rope according to the pr...
While Albert Pierrepoint may have remained suitably detached during his career, he did go on to voice his opinions after his resignation. In 1974, he wrote a memoir entitled Executioner: Pierrepointin which he stated that capital punishment doesn’t deter criminals: However, just two years later after the book’s publication, Pierrepoint appeared to ...
- William Delong
Mar 12, 2009 · On 3 January 1956, Albert Pierrepoint arrived at Strangeways prison in Manchester to carry out the execution of Thomas Bancroft, a convicted murderer, in what would have been the 436th death...
Nov 6, 2015 · 50 years after the UK first experimented with removing the death penalty for murder, one name has become our bridge to the hangman’s noose.
- Lizzie Seal
Jun 1, 2006 · The released documents also fill in some missing elements in the story of Britain's most famous hangmen - the Pierrepoint family. Britain's last official chief hangman, Albert Pierrepoint, became a...
Apr 7, 2021 · Pierrepoint was Britain’s official hangman between 1941 and 1956. He executed 200 Nazi war criminals, half of the total number of people he hanged during his career. He wrote in his memoir that the death penalty did not deter a single person and only served as a means of revenge.
Feb 9, 2024 · From British serial murderers to Nazi war criminals, through to some of the bitterest miscarriages of justice that helped gradually shift the debate on capital punishment before its suspension and...
