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This list of notable actors from the United Kingdom includes performers in film, radio, stage and television This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Albert Pierrepoint (1905–1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 434 men and women between 1932 and 1955. This table records the locations of each of the executions he participated in, the numbers in brackets being the number of executions he was assistant executioner at (often assisting his uncle, Thomas Pierrepoint), the other numbers are those in ...
Albert Pierrepoint (/ ˈ p ɪər p ɔɪ n t / PEER-point; 30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father Henry and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him. Pierrepoint was born in Clayton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. His family struggled ...
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Baxter's reactions became increasingly slower in the mid-1930s. He carried out his last hanging on 30 October 1935 before finally being removed from the official Home Office list. He died in 1961, at the age of 83. [10]
Like many hangmen of his day, Binns had no formal training and carried out executions according to his own methods and concepts. He executed nine men and two women, [2] but his short career was "littered with complaints of drunkenness and incompetence". [3] His first unassisted execution was that of Henry Powell on 6 November 1883 at Wandsworth ...
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This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alfred Allen (executioner) Harry Allen (executioner) B. Robert Baxter (executioner) James Berry (executioner)