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 caree… ...

An execution diary kept by Britain’s most famous hangman is up at auction for £25,00 ($31,600). Albert Pierrepoint is responsible for the deaths of around 600 people during his 25-year career ...

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 ...

Albert Pierrepoint killed more than 400 during his career as a British executioner (Image: Getty Images) ‌ Bobby Joe Long executed: The final word of serial killer before lethal injection ...

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 ...

On 3 January 1956, Albert Pierrepoint arrived at Strangeways prison in Manchester to carry out the execution of Thomas Bancroft, a convicted murderer, in what would have been the 436th death ...

Albert Pierrepoint executed some of Britain's most notorious murderers and was sent to Germany to hang more than 200 Nazi war criminals after World War Two. Show more Using archive recordings ...

Pierrepoint was born in Yorkshire in 1905. His father and uncle were hangmen, part of a small class of state-appointed “official executioners,” and young Albert aimed to take up their trade.