This story based on the life of one of England’s last hangmen,or executioners, is a dark story mostly well told, even if itmistakenly veers from solemn character study to bigger-scale dramaat times ...

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 ...

After the House of Commons voted to outlaw the death penalty, Britain’s Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 45, quit the job that has been in his family for 85 years and turned his strong, steady hand ...

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter @slatevault; find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Albert Pierrepoint was an ...

The package up for auction includes an execution diary, rare photos and plaster casts of his face and hands taken after his death. Boldon Auction Galleries Limited An execution diary kept by Britain’s ...

LONDON — Where are you, Albert Pierrepoint, now that they need you? Dead, are you? Well, good news for Tony Teare. With the royal neck-stretcher gone to his reward, that would seem to leave nobody ...

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 ...

Pierrepoint (opening June 8 at Landmarks Hillcrest Cinemas) bears the subtitle The Last Hangman. Apparently that's not entirely accurate but the film proves to be a fascinating portrait of a man whose ...

Timothy Spall is the perfect choice to play Albert Pierrepoint, the British hangman who executed some 450 people from 1932 to 1955—one look at Spall’s lopsided glare and you’d probably jump through ...

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 ...