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Albert Pierrepoint-Does this name ring any bells??
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William | Report | 12 Aug 2007 20:03 |
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By happy coincidence I've just finished reading the history of the Pierrepoint family. |
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Catherine from Manchester | Report | 12 Aug 2007 20:05 |
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thanks Budgie your prob right, the most sensationalised hanging mut have been ellis william that sound intresting bet it don't mention me dad eh??? catherine xx |
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Deanna | Report | 12 Aug 2007 20:11 |
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Yes he was the hang man.... what a job to take!! Deanna X |
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Deanna | Report | 12 Aug 2007 20:16 |
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Catherine, did he really knock your dad down in a car?? Was he badly hirt? I rememeber vividly the court case and the hanging of Ruth Ellis I must have been 15/16 prthaps. My father kept saying that they would never hang her....in this day and age!! Deanna X |
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Catherine from Manchester | Report | 12 Aug 2007 20:18 |
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yes apparently according to my family he did knock my dad down would love to find out more though my dad was called george arnold catherine xx |
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William | Report | 12 Aug 2007 20:44 |
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No Catherine, no mention of your Dad! Both Albert, his uncle and his Dad were hangmen. I have to say they all sound a bit strange. None seem to have had a happy old age. Love and light Billy |
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KEITH H | Report | 12 Aug 2007 21:25 |
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13th of August 1964. Peter Anthony Allen (at Walton Prison Liverpool) and Gwynne Owen Evans - real name John Robson Walby, (at Strangeways Prison Manchester) become the last to be hanged. The executions taking place simultaneously at 8.00 a.m. 15th of August 1963. The last hanging in Scotland was that of 21 year old Henry Burnett, who was executed at Craiginches Prison in Aberdeen for the murder of seaman Thomas Guyan. 1st of November 1965. Last passing of the death sentence in England - on David Chapman at Leeds. He was subsequently reprieved and his sentence commuted to life in prison. 8th of November 1965. Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act passed which effectively abolished capital punishment but provided for another vote on it 'within 5 years.' Treason, piracy with violence and arson in Royal Dockyards remained capital crimes. December 1969. Parliament confirmed abolition of capital punishment for murder. |
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