A SMILING pub landlord led a secret double life and was responsible for the deaths of nearly 600 people. Anyone supping a pint in a boozer where Albert Pierrepoint worked would more than likely be ...

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 ...

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman is a British drama film directed by Adrian Shergold and written by Jeff Pope and Bob Mills. The film portrays the highly fictionalized account of the British executioner ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Mirrorpix With one hand on the pumps at the Rose and Crown in Much Hoole, Albert Pierrepoint looks every part the ...

As Timothy Spall plays him, Albert Pierrepoint is rather dispassionate about all this killing. He sees himself simply as the instrument of the state, an efficient tool whose purpose is to expedite a ...

A pub landlord had a part-time job that meant he took the lives of more than 400 prisoners. Photographs show Albert Pierrepoint, who was born in 1905 in Bradford, can be seen smiling and laughing as ...

Who was Ruth Ellis and why was she hanged at London's Holloway Prison? - Everything you need to know about the last woman to ...

The meticulous notes mention Derek Bentley, who was wrongly hanged for murder A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman have sold at auction for £20,000. Albert Pierrepoint ...

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 ...