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The first execution started at 9.34 am and the last was completed by 4.17 pm. Executing a large number of war criminals in a single day was not unusual for Pierrepoint.
In October 1941 Pierrepoint undertook his first execution as lead executioner when he hanged the gangland killer Antonio "Babe" Mancini. [28] He followed the routine as established by Home Office guidelines, and as followed by his predecessors.
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.
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Albert Pierrepoint gave this account of the execution of Derek Bentley, 19, at Wandsworth Prison in 1953. Bentley, who had a mental age of 11, was hanged for the murder of PC Sidney Miles.
Henry Pierrepoint took up the craft first, hanging 105 men from 1901 to 1910. According to reputable sources, Henry could execute a man in the time it took the prison clock to strike eight – leading him from his cell to the adjacent death chamber on the first stroke, and having him suspended, dead on the rope, by the eighth and final stroke.
During this time he presided over several high-profile executions, including that of poisoner Frederick Setton and accused-murderer Charlotte Bryant, and the hanging of thirteen US military personnel at the Shepton Mallet military prison in Somerset, who had been committed for rape and murder during World War II.
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Jul 2, 2018 · The executioner Albert Pierrepoint died himself on July 10, 1992 at age 87 in Southport, the seaside town near Liverpool where he’d retired with his wife after resigning his position as a man who’d killed hundreds of people and called it a career.
