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 ...

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 ...

Albert Pierrepoint delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following in his father's footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion, rising to become 'the best in the land'. From ...

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman turns a morbid subject into a fascinating case study of the last official prison executioner in England. The result is both a balanced, carefully researched film and a ...

Morbid Goths and reserved Anglophiles can at last find some common ground, as both groups are likely to be fascinated by Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint—The Last Hangman. Much like Vera Drake, directed ...

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 ...

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The logbook used by hangman Albert Pierrepoint to list the Nazis, serial killers and spies he executed is set to fetch £25,000 (Sh3.2 million) at an auction. Pierrepoint recorded the heights, weights ...

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 ...

Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman is a biopic of England's most prolific modern executioner, and with a subject like that, tone is all. Shergold goes for a kind of gray-hued miserablism, ...