ALB PIERREPOINT ( UK THE LAST HANGMAN) 2 of 10

Albert Pierrepoint ( 1905 - 10 July 1992) is the most celebrated member of a Yorkshire family who provided three of Britain's Chief Executioners in the first half of the 20th century.
In 1901 Henry Pierrepoint ( 1874- 1922) was appointed to the list of executioners after repeatedly writing to the Home Office to offer his services. In his nine-year term of office Henry carried out 107 executions before being dismissed in July 1910 for arriving for an execution at Chelmsford prison "considerably the worse for drink", and having fought fellow hangman John Ellis the previous day. He did however persuade his older brother Thomas and son Albert to carry on in the family business.

Albert's first execution as "Number One" was that of gangster Antonio "Babe" Mancini at Pentonville Prison, London, on 17 October 1941, who said "Cheerio!" before the trap was sprung.

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[alanheath]

This does not quite show what I imagined Antonio "Babe" Mancini to be like - a London gang operator. The actions portrayed by the actor were not those of someone who said cheerio before he died.

However that is a minor mistake when compared to that of Waddington who was executed in 1936 - not during the war as implied here. Pierrepoint did not carry out that execution although he was the assistant.

[1948bazza]

@8524frank Hanged ? He died in Southport at the age of 87 :o)

[FieldMarshalRommel23]

Don't people want to die with dignity? why do they beg and plead?

[FieldMarshalRommel23]

@celticlofts The next time somone fiddles with your kids (God forbid!) come back and say that.

[express777100]

@LokiV women prison officers took no part in the executions, they were replaced by men shortly the executioners entered the cell. it was said they got to know the prisoners to well and broke down when the woman had to go. the last time they witnessed an execution was louise masset on 9th jan 1900.

[199422adam]

A good man with the right motives doing the right Job, humanely. Although the 1957 Homicide act may have averted the two regrettable ones he was tasked with that in all fairness should never have happened.

[diggyu]

europeans wtf?

[celticlofts]

Capital punishment shouldn't have been carried out in the back room of some prison, it should have been carried out in public so the population would see what was being done in their name. Maybe then they might have abolished it sooner. Thank God it no longer happens in the EU.

[celticlofts]

Ironic really that the Irish Government had an Englishman hang Irishmen who fought in a war against Englishmen who were killing Irishmen.

[alanheath]

@eamonnca1 I suppose so - but they could have chosen another criminal rather than Mancini!

[LokiV]

Dorothea Waddingham execution took place at Birmingham's Winson Green prison, not Holloway Prison in London as is implied 08:10