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Sutton Bonington, England. Died. 11 February 1954 (aged 83/84) Bradford, England. Occupation. Executioner. Years active. 1906-1946. Thomas Pierrepoint (1870 - 11 February 1954) was an English hangman, the brother of Henry Pierrepoint and the uncle of Albert Pierrepoint .
- 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 ...
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Thomas was born in 1962 in Lynchburg, Virginia, and grew up in Monroe Virginia,the fifth and youngest child of Nathaniel Thomas andBertha Helen Brown Thomas. Thomas graduated from Amherst County High School in 1980, and enrolled in Virginia Tech, graduating in 1984 with a degree in communication studies.
