Executioner Pierrepoint: An Autobiography

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Then he would divide the inmates into those who would be forced to work another day and those who were to be gassed to death. Eating a mince pie saved my life - it led to my breast cancer diagnosis: 39-year-old mother tells how she.

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He was 26 by the time he went into the job, after stints as a drayman and an interview at Strangeways. Nor did I leave the list, as one newspaper said, by being arbitrarily taken off it, to shut my mouth, because I was about to reveal the last words of Ruth Ellis. The commandant of Auschwitz as well as Belsen, Kramer sent thousands to their deaths in the gas chambers.In addition to his 1974 autobiography, Pierrepoint has been the subject of several biographies, either focusing on him, or alongside other executioners. Even in the unmitigated evil of the Nazi death camps, 39-year-old Kramer stood out as a demonic killer. Wigan murderer Norman Green, was the last person to be hanged by Albert Pierrepoint at Walton Prison, Liverpool, in 1955. Pierrepoint then went to the execution room—normally next to the condemned cell—where he tested the equipment using a sack that weighed about the same as the prisoner; he calculated the length of the drop using the Home Office Table of Drops, making allowances for the man's physique, if necessary.

The smiling Yorkshire pub landlord who killed over 400 people

His father Henry was a Northamptonshire butcher who, as a young man, used to practise the best way to tie a noose. The second most famous family of executioners were the Sanson family, executioners of the French revolution. He was brought to the scaffold where a strap was wrapped around his ankles, followed by a cap and noose. When you have hanged more than 680 people, it's a hell of a time to find out you do not believe capital punishment achieves anything! The shooting came after the officer had asked Craig for his gun, and Bentley had replied ‘let him have it’ - a phrase open to two different interpretations in the circumstances.The executioner was chosen by the county high sheriff—or more commonly delegated to the undersheriff, who selected both the hangman and the assistant. But it was in September, 1932, aged 27, he moved into his chosen career and was taken on as an assistant executioner. When he flew to Germany, he was followed across the airfield by the press, which he described as being "as unwelcome as a lynch mob". Fielding describes the family profession thus: "Just before the time of the execution, the executioner and his assistant join the .