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 ...

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 ...

HANGMAN Albert Pierrepoint, one of British's last executioners, had an unlikely friendship with Princess Margaret's boxer bodyguard Chick ‘Cocky' Knight, according to a new book. The death penalty was ...

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Today on Trailers from Hell, the always-erudite Brian Trenchard-Smith introduces 2007’s executioner drama "Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman," starring Timothy Spall, an Oscar hopeful this year in "Mr.

Biographical drama about England’s foremost 20th-century executioner. With Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson. Director: Adrian Shergold (1:30). R: Disturbing images, sexuality/nudity. At Lincoln Plaza, ...

The name Pierrepoint has long been synonymous with the job of official hangman. But while Albert Pierrepoint and his uncle Thomas entered the history books by presiding over as many as 900 executions, ...

He kept meticulous notes of the 105 prisoners he killed over his nine-year career as state hangman, grading them on the thickness of their neck. The macabre notebook contains details about each, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...