Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more
Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (11 February 2010) Ambrose Olsen, American male model (22 April 2010) [5] Choi Jin-young, South Korean brother of Choi Jin-sil (29 March 2010) Viveka Babajee, Mauritian model and actress (25 June 2010) [6] Alex Whybrow, American professional wrestler better known as Larry Sweeney (11 April 2011)
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 ...
This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Alfred Allen (executioner) Harry Allen (executioner) B. Robert Baxter (executioner) James Berry (executioner)
This category comprises male actors or performers who have been knighted (either Knight Bachelor or Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire), including honorary knighthoods (i.e. Fairbanks, Hope, Milligan).
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 ...
Pierrepoint is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint. The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival [1] and was released in the UK on 7 April 2006. [2] In the United States, it had a limited theatrical release at three screens on 7 June 2007, grossing $21,766.
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]