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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
Apr 7, 2021 · In December 1945, Albert Pierrepoint was given an unusual mission: to execute 13 Nazi war criminals in one day. Along with the commander of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, he also executed the “young 21-year-old blonde who used to carry a riding crop to beat inmates to death,” as well as the doctor who decided who would go to the gas ...
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Nov 6, 2015 · One executioner, though, did not simply recede into the shadows. Albert Pierrepoint was not the last British hangman, but he was certainly the most famous.
- Lizzie Seal
Feb 9, 2024 · Albert Pierrepoint’s extraordinary life and career birthed an international celebrity that has veered between adulation and discomfort for almost 80 years.
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...
Jul 13, 1992 · Albert Pierrepoint, who hanged hundreds of people as Britain's chief executioner, died on Friday. He was 87 years old. The manager of the nursing home where he died in this city in...
