Adrian Shergold’s Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, from a screenplay by Jeff Pope and Bob Mills, provides the strongest cinematic statement against capital punishment I have ever seen, but I doubt that ...

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 ...

After the House of Commons voted to outlaw the death penalty, Britain’s Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 45, quit the job that has been in his family for 85 years and turned his strong, steady hand ...

“I’ll say to you what I said to your father,” says Albert Pierrepoint’s mother early in “Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman,” opening today at the IFC Center. “Don’t bring it over that threshold.” The “it” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...