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  2. Official Table of Drops - Wikipedia

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    The Official Table of Drops, formerly issued by the British Home Office, is a manual which is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings. Following a series of failed hangings, including those of John Babbacombe Lee , a committee chaired by Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare was formed in 1886 to discover and report on ...

  3. Talk:Official Table of Drops - Wikipedia

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    They published their Report in 1888, and this report in fact suggested the use of a Table of Drops which was based on 1,260 ft-lbs. I do not have proof that this table was ever actually adopted in an official way. But in 1892, when Berry was out of office, the Home Office issued a different table, based on 840 ft-lbs of energy.

  4. James Berry (executioner) - Wikipedia

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    Shrimpton was executed on May 25, 1885 in the courtyard of Worcester Prison. Shrimpton’ s neck muscles were weak, resulting in him being decapitated during the drop. He executed Robert Goodale, who murdered his wife, Bathsheba Shield Clack. During his execution at Norwich Castle on November 30, 1885, he was decapitated because the rope was ...

  5. Albert Pierrepoint - Wikipedia

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    Pierrepoint then went to the execution room—normally next to the condemned cell—where he tested the equipment using a sack that weighed about the same as the prisoner; he calculated the length of the drop using the Home Office Table of Drops, making allowances for the man's physique, if necessary.

  6. William Frederick Horry - Wikipedia

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    William Frederick Horry, also known as Fred Horry (December 1843 – 1 April 1872), [1] was the first person to be hanged by Victorian hangman William Marwood, [2] and the first to fall using the long drop method. [3] He was hanged at Lincoln Castle, Lincoln, England on 1 April 1872, aged 28, [1] for the murder of his wife, Jane Horry.

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  8. James Billington (executioner) - Wikipedia

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    Given a drop longer than specified by the official Table of Drops, the force of his fall when the trapdoor was released stretched his neck by "an almost incredible eleven inches". [ 10 ] Billington executed serial poisoner Thomas Neill Cream on 15 November 1892. [ 11 ]

  9. William Marwood - Wikipedia

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    William Frederick Horry, the first person to be hanged by William Marwood [4] and the first person to be hanged using the "long drop" method; executed at Lincoln Castle, Lincolnshire on 1 April 1872. Henry Wainwright, a brushmaker who murdered his mistress Harriet Lane in September 1874 and buried her body in a warehouse he owned.