Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.

Lizzie Seal is a member of the Howard League for Penal Reform. Fifty years ago this Sunday, Britain passed a law which brought an end to the death penalty for murder and consigned the noose to history ...

Albert Pierrepoint, the Lancashire grocery deliveryman who doubled as England’s most prolific and self-effacing executioner between 1934 and 1956, was not, as the title of Adrian Shergold’s new drama ...

The macabre notebook listing every execution carried out by Britain's most famous hangman today sold at auction for £12,400. Albert Pierrepoint kept the pocket book throughout his 25-year career of ...

Some chose jobs as train drivers, policemen or nurses. But Albert, just 11, had an unusual ambition. "When I leave school," he wrote, "I should like to be the Official Executioner." Or as most people ...

Today on Trailers from Hell, the always-erudite Brian Trenchard-Smith introduces 2007’s executioner drama "Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman," starring Timothy Spall, an Oscar hopeful this year in "Mr.

The star of Pierrepoint says that he hopes the new film will be recognised as one of the most successful anti-capital punishment works ever made. It may, therefore, disappoint Timothy Spall and fellow ...

Some of the chilling tools used by Britain's most famous hangman are being put up for auction. Albert Pierrepoint executed around 600 people including notorious German Nazi war criminal Josef Kramer ...

He kept meticulous notes of the 105 prisoners he killed over his nine-year career as state hangman, grading them on the thickness of their neck. The macabre notebook contains details about each, ...

Pierrepoint (opening June 8 at Landmarks Hillcrest Cinemas) bears the subtitle The Last Hangman. Apparently that's not entirely accurate but the film proves to be a fascinating portrait of a man whose ...

Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.