Albert Pierrepoint, the Lancashire grocery deliveryman who doubled as England’s most prolific and self-effacing executioner between 1934 and 1956, was not, as the title of Adrian Shergold’s new drama ...

Some chose jobs as train drivers, policemen or nurses. But Albert, just 11, had an unusual ambition. "When I leave school," he wrote, "I should like to be the Official Executioner." Or as most people ...

The macabre notebook listing every execution carried out by Britain's most famous hangman today sold at auction for £12,400. Albert Pierrepoint kept the pocket book throughout his 25-year career of ...

"It's just in me," Albert Pierrepoint confesses, the look on his face somewhere between shame and relief. "Always knew it would come out someday." Pierrepoint, like his father before him, was an ...

Today on Trailers from Hell, the always-erudite Brian Trenchard-Smith introduces 2007’s executioner drama "Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman," starring Timothy Spall, an Oscar hopeful this year in "Mr.

(R) IFC First Take (90 min.) Directed by Adrian Shergold. With Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan. Opens Friday at theaters in New York, and on cable through IFC On Demand. THREE STARS BY ...

Some of the chilling tools used by Britain's most famous hangman are being put up for auction. Albert Pierrepoint executed around 600 people including notorious German Nazi war criminal Josef Kramer ...

The death penalty was abolished in Britain back in 1965, but up until a few years before the last hangmen were still at work in Her Majesty’s Prison Service. One of these and probably the most ...

The Bible says "Thou shalt not kill", but that's just a book the state sticks in a defendant's hand before it condemns him to death. Such complexities, or ironies, or whatever they are, were never the ...

lowing in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him, Albert Pierrepoint joins the 'family business' in 1934. He rises through the ranks to become the most feared and respected executioner in ...