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 ...

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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 ...

MACABRE. That’s the word I’m looking for. There’s just a hint of macabre delight in Martin Oldfield’s brilliant portrayal of Albert Pierrepoint, Britain’s last hangman, at the Apex Hotel, on the ...

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 ...