lowing in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him, Albert Pierrepoint joins the 'family business' in 1934. He rises through the ranks to become the most feared and respected executioner in ...

Before closing time at the Help the Poor Struggler, the landlord would sing Danny Boy. He had a fine voice, and was usually joined in the singalong at the piano - a fixture in post-war pubs - by a man ...

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 ...

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, ...