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Albert Pierrepoint
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Albert Pierrepoint was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father Henry and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him.
Albert's father Henry
Albert's father Henry
Facsimile of British hangman's equipment, shown at Wandsworth Prison museum
Facsimile of British hangman's equipment, shown at Wandsworth Prison museum
Execution Box number eight, containing all the equipment needed for an executioner; shown at Wandsworth Prison museum
Execution Box number eight, containing all the equipment needed for an executioner; shown at Wandsworth Prison museum
X-ray of the cervical spine with a hangman's fracture. Left without annotation, right with. The C2 (red outline) is moved forward with respect to C3 (
X-ray of the cervical spine with a hangman's fracture. Left without annotation, right with. The C2 (red outline) is moved forward with respect to C3 (blue outline).
Ruth Ellis
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Ruth Ellis was a Welsh-born nightclub hostess and convicted murderer who became the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, following the fatal shooting of her abusive lover, David Blakely.
Albert Pierrepoint
…Murderer) and John Christie (the Rillington Place Strangler). He undertook several contentious executions, including Timothy Evans, Derek Bentley and Ruth Ellis and executions for high treason—William Joyce (also known as Lord Haw-Haw) and John Amery—and treachery, with the hanging of Theodore Schurch. In 1956…
Ruth Ellis
Ruth Ellis
The Magdala pub in 2008. Two "bullet holes" in the wall at lower left were drilled by the pub's landlady in the 1990s.
The Magdala pub in 2008. Two "bullet holes" in the wall at lower left were drilled by the pub's landlady in the 1990s.
The site of Ellis's grave (marked by a small post) in St Mary's Church, Amersham, in July 2022
The site of Ellis's grave (marked by a small post) in St Mary's Church, Amersham, in July 2022