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Albert Pierrepoint (/ ˈ p ɪər p ɔɪ n t /; 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.
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955. This table records the locations of each of the executions he participated in, the numbers in brackets being the number of executions he was assistant executioner at (often assisting his ...
Albert Pierrepoint hanged 191 male and 10 female Nazi war criminals in batches at Hameln prison in the British controlled sector of Germany after World War II. It was deemed impractical to leave each prisoner hanging for a whole hour, as required by the 1932 Memorandum of Instructions.
7 de abr. de 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.
2 de jul. de 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.
9 de feb. de 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...
6 de nov. de 2015 · In this film, the character of Pierrepoint, played by Timothy Spall, is haunted by executing an acquaintance and, eventually, traumatised by the many hangings he has carried out.
