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- Following in the footsteps of his father and uncle, Pierrepoint trained in the "British art" of hanging at Pentonville prison in London, calculating the length of rope needed to cleanly break a prisoner's neck.
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Pierrepoint knew from an early age that he wanted to become a hangman, and was taken on as an assistant executioner in September 1932, aged 27. His first execution was in December that year, alongside his uncle Tom.
Jul 2, 2018 · Still, he stayed employed as a hangman for five more years, during which time he executed high-profile criminals like serial killer John Christie and Timothy Evans, the man who’d mistakenly been hanged for one of Christie’s crimes before new evidence was found and Christie himself was arrested.
- William Delong
Nov 6, 2015 · 50 years after the UK first experimented with removing the death penalty for murder, one name has become our bridge to the hangman’s noose.
- Lizzie Seal
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...
Jun 23, 2019 · Henry Pierrepoint was the first of his family to become a hangman. He wrote to the Home Office repeatedly to offer his services whilst he was working as a Butcher in Manchester. No one knows what motivated him to take up the profession but we know that the Home Office required that the men employed in that service were usually married, settled ...
Jan 21, 2007 · Or so "Monty" says in "Pierrepoint," a film released in England last year about the career of Albert Pierrepoint, the most famous hangman in 20th-century England, though he preferred the more ...
“Hanging must run in the blood,” he once explained. “It requires a natural flair. The judgment and timing of a first-rate hangman cannot be acquired.” His record was 17 hangings in one day. Albert hanged common criminals, 15 German spies, American soldiers and Nazi war criminals.
