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A second man also answering to the name "Harry Allen", Herbert Allen, an ice cream salesman from the West Midlands, was also on the official list of executioners for a period in the early 1950s, having graduated from the same training group as Syd Dernley. The two Harry Allens are known to have worked together as assistants on at least two ...
Harry Lucey (November 13, 1913 – August 28, 1984) [1] was an American comic artist best known for his work in MLJ and Archie Comics. He was the primary artist on Archie , the company's flagship title, from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s.
After a 1963 prologue showing British executioner Harry Wade at work, hanging a man, Hennessy, who goes to his grave proclaiming his innocence and pronouncing a curse on Harry, Hangmen flashes forward to 1965 in a town in northern England. The action centres around Harry, who we discover is the second-best hangman in the land.
Jackson Terrace (pictured in 2006) Henry John Burnett (5 January 1942 – 15 August 1963) was the last man to be hanged in Scotland, and the first in Aberdeen since 1891. He was tried at the high court in Aberdeen from 23 to 25 July 1963 for the murder of merchant seaman Thomas Guyan.
A welder in civilian life, Dernley was dubbed, albeit incorrectly, as also Albert Pierrepoint, "the last British hangman" (in fact, this title belongs jointly to Harry Allen and Robert Leslie Stewart). More accurately, Dernley was one of the last surviving hangmen, following the deaths of both Pierrepoint and Allen in 1992.
Common terms for executioners derived from forms of capital punishment—though they often also performed other physical punishments—include hangman and headsman . In the military, the role of executioner was performed by a soldier, such as the provost .
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The Hangman appeared in Fly Man #33 (September 1965) after a 21-year absence. However, this time the Hangman was a villain who fought against the Mighty Crusaders. [5] A new Hangman (Steve Dickering) appeared in The Comet #1 (1983), however he eventually faded into obscurity. [6]