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 ...

A SMILING pub landlord led a secret double life and was responsible for the deaths of nearly 600 people. Anyone supping a pint in a boozer where Albert Pierrepoint worked would more than likely be ...

07:00, Sun, Sep 24, 2023 Updated: 07:44, Sun, Sep 24, 2023 Many Brits around the country have a regular boozer where they are at least familiar with the person who pulls their pint. However, there was ...

Drinkers would have found it difficult to reconcile the two disparate worlds in which the smiling man serving across the bar, Albert Pierrepoint, existed. Born in West Yorkshire, Albert moved to ...

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 ...

All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done I have not prevented a ...

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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 was an executioner who made a career out of seeing more than 400 people to their deaths. Looking back at photos of the smiling Southport man, it's hard to imagine he made his living ...

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, ...