“It’s just in me,” Albert Pierrepoint confesses, the look on his face somewhere between shame and relief. “Always knew it would come out someday.” Pierrepoint, like his father before him, was an ...

Fifty years ago this Sunday, Britain passed a law which brought an end to the death penalty for murder and consigned the noose to history. One executioner, though, did not simply recede into the ...

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 ...

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(R) IFC First Take (90 min.) Directed by Adrian Shergold. With Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan. Opens Friday at theaters in New York, and on cable through IFC On Demand. THREE STARS BY ...

Today on Trailers from Hell, the always-erudite Brian Trenchard-Smith introduces 2007’s executioner drama "Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman," starring Timothy Spall, an Oscar hopeful this year in "Mr.

Some chose jobs as train drivers, policemen or nurses. But Albert, just 11, had an unusual ambition. "When I leave school," he wrote, "I should like to be the Official Executioner." Or as most people ...

The star of Pierrepoint says that he hopes the new film will be recognised as one of the most successful anti-capital punishment works ever made. It may, therefore, disappoint Timothy Spall and fellow ...

HANGMAN Albert Pierrepoint, one of British's last executioners, had an unlikely friendship with Princess Margaret's boxer bodyguard Chick ‘Cocky' Knight, according to a new book. The death penalty was ...

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 ...