THE macabre notebook listing every execution carried out by Britain’s most famous hangman has sold at auction for £12,400. Albert Pierrepoint kept the pocket book throughout his 25 year career of ...
An execution book which details the grisly details of every person Britain's most famous hangman put to death is set to be sold at auction. Albert Pierrepoint, whose own death mask will also go under ...
Standing on the gallows at London's Pentonville Prison, with his arms pinioned behind his back and a noose around his neck, 39-year-old Antonio Mancini was about to pay the price for stabbing to death ...
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 ...
A hangman known to have executed at least 400 men and women was asked to tell the government how he did his job almost 15 years before capital punishment was abolished in 1964. Albert Pierrepoint was ...
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, ...
The diary of hangman Henry Albert Pierrepoint has sold at auction as part of lot which fetched more than £4,000. Pierrepoint was the first of his family to become an executioner in 1901 - his brother ...
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 ...
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 ...
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