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- Albert Pierrepoint (/ ˈpɪərpɔɪnt / 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.
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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.
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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
Jul 2, 2018 · Hangman Albert Pierrepoint killed everyone from serial murderers to Nazi war criminals, and was paid well by the British government to do so. Everyone from the Blackout Ripper to the Acid Bath Killer to the Hyena of Auschwitz met their end thanks to this one man.
- 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...
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.
- Ofer Aderet
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In a 24-year career, Albert Pierrepoint executed 435 people including Ruth Ellis and Lord Haw-Haw. But he later became a fierce opponent of the death penalty.
Feb 9, 2024 · From his school days in early-20th-century Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Pierrepoint — the most prolific hangman in modern British history, whose effects were being sold off before my eyes — had...
