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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.
Jul 2, 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.
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. It has often been repeated that no one...
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955.
Nov 6, 2015 · Gallows legacy. Albert Pierrepoint and the nature of the executioner. Global Panorama, CC BY-SA. Fifty years ago this Sunday, Britain passed a law which brought an end to the death penalty for...
Apr 7, 2021 · Albert Pierrepoint, whose task included executing the 'Beast of Belsen' and the 'blonde who beat inmates to death,' wrote after the Holocaust that the death penalty solves nothing.
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...
Aug 13, 2014 · Albert Pierrepoint was a long-serving hangman in England and became the Chief Executioner in 1941. Born in Yorkshire in 1905, Pierrepoint was acknowledged by the Home Office as the most...
Jan 26, 2023 · During the 1940s and 1950s, Albert Pierrepoint was responsible for the execution of some of Britain's most notorious murderers and was sent to Germany to hang more than 200 Nazi war criminals...
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...
