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Executioner Pierrepoint: An Autobiography

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By 1800, 220 different offences could be punished with the death sentence, with many relating to the theft of property. The sharp increase in executions meant the laws were posthumously named the Bloody Code. I have gone on record... as saying that my job is sacred to me. That sanctity must be most apparent at the hour of death. A condemned prisoner is entrusted to me, after decisions have been made which I cannot alter. He is a man, she is a woman, who, the church says, still merits some mercy. The supreme mercy I can extend to them is to give them and sustain in them their dignity in dying and death. The gentleness must remain. [83] After the war, Pierrepoint left the delivery business, and took over the lease of a pub, the Help the Poor Struggler on Manchester Road, in the Hollinwood area of Oldham. [53] In the 1950s he left the pub and took a lease of the larger Rose and Crown at Much Hoole near Preston, Lancashire. [54] He later said that he changed his main occupation because: At the time the policeman was shot, Bentley had been under arrest for 15 minutes, and the words he said to Craig—"Let him have it, Chris"—could either have been taken for an incitement to shoot, or for Craig to hand his gun over (one policeman had asked him to hand the gun over just beforehand). Bentley was found guilty by the English law principle of joint enterprise. [63] [64]

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In October 1941 Pierrepoint carried out his first task as lead executioner when he hanged the gangland killer Antonio "Babe" Mancini. Madra, Amandeep Singh (2008). "Singh, Udham (1899–1940)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/73200. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Corbitt strangled his mistress in 1950 and was found guilty, his diary entries revealing that he had planned the murder well in advance. Albert, who was born in Yorkshire but resided in Southport, was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career.No one knows what motivated him to take up the profession but we know that the Home Office required that the men employed in that service were usually married, settled and mild-mannered. They were not extravagant or outwardly, they kept themselves to themselves. Pierrepoint is portrayed by Edwin Brown executing Timothy Evans in the 1971 film 10 Rillington Place. Pierrepoint served as an uncredited technical adviser on this film, to ensure the authenticity of the hanging scene. [90] REVEALED: The 'super comfortable' power leggings from Sweaty Betty that gym goers can't get enough of Albert always claimed that his uncle had taught him not to drink before a hanging: ‘If you can’t do the job without whisky, don’t do it at all.’ But by the outbreak of WWII, Thomas had a reputation for arriving at hangings smelling strongly of alcohol and unsteady on his feet, and he too was sent into retirement. Let Him Have It' (1991)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017 . Retrieved 30 August 2018.

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Dunn, Jane (2008). "Ellis [née Neilson], Ruth (1926–1955)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Vol.1 (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/56716. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)For the remainder of the 1930s Pierrepoint worked in the grocery business and as an assistant executioner. Most of his commissions were with his uncle Tom, from whom Pierrepoint learned much. He was particularly impressed with his uncle's approach and demeanour, which were dignified and discreet; [25] he also followed Tom's advice "if you can't do it without whisky, don't do it at all." [26]

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