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 ...

The meticulous notes mention Derek Bentley, who was wrongly hanged for murder A notebook and other items belonging to Britain's most famous hangman have sold at auction for £20,000. Albert Pierrepoint ...

THE macabre notebook listing every execution carried out by Britain’s most famous hangman has sold at auction for £12,400. Albert Pierrepoint kept the pocket book throughout his 25 year career of ...

The macabre notebook listing every execution carried out by Britain's most famous hangman today sold at auction for £12,400. Albert Pierrepoint kept the pocket book throughout his 25-year career of ...

The execution book kept by Britain’s most famous hangman is to be auctioned on Tyneside. It is among a collection of items belonging to Albert Pierrepoint which will be sold on June 5 at Boldon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...