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 ...

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.

A SMILING pub landlord led a secret double life and was responsible for the deaths of nearly 600 people. Anyone supping a pint in a boozer where Albert Pierrepoint worked would more than likely be ...

The macabre notebook listing every execution carried out by Britain's most famous hangman today sold at auction for £12,400. Albert Pierrepoint kept the pocket book throughout his 25-year career of ...

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 ...

As Timothy Spall plays him, Albert Pierrepoint is rather dispassionate about all this killing. He sees himself simply as the instrument of the state, an efficient tool whose purpose is to expedite a ...

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter @slatevault; find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Albert Pierrepoint was an ...

(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 ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

Standing on the gallows at London's Pentonville Prison, with his arms pinioned behind his back and a noose around his neck, 39-year-old Antonio Mancini was about to pay the price for stabbing to death ...

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 ...