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James Berry (8 February 1852 – 21 October 1913) was an English executioner from 1884 until 1891. Berry was born in Heckmondwike in the West Riding of Yorkshire , where his father worked as a wool-stapler .
On 23 February 1885, three attempts were made to carry out Lee's execution at Exeter Prison.All ended in failure, as the trapdoor of the scaffold failed to open despite being carefully tested by the executioner, James Berry, beforehand.
Unlike in France and many other European countries, far from being shunned, British executioners such as William Marwood, James Berry, Albert Pierrepoint, and Harry Allen were widely known and respected by the public. In Korea, the Baekjeong were an "untouchable" group who traditionally performed the jobs of executioner and butcher. [7]
William Marwood influenced James Berry, a retired police officer and friend, to take up the role of hangman. During his time Berry improved upon William Marwood's technique of the long drop . Marwood was one of two executioners to give their name to the character of the hangman in the British Punch and Judy puppet show ( Jack Ketch being the ...
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The women held her on the trapdoors while James Berry prepared her for execution. Two male wardens then took the place of the female wardens. On a signal from the executioner, they quickly stepped back, the trap door was released and Britland dropped. [8] She was the first woman to be executed at Strangeways Prison in Manchester.
Nevertheless, the executioner James Berry promoted the idea that Bury was the Ripper. [68] Berry did not include Bury or the Ripper in his memoirs, My Experiences as an Executioner , [ 82 ] but Ernest A. Parr, a journalist in the Suffolk town of Newmarket , wrote to the Secretary of State for Scotland on 28 March 1908 that Berry "told me ...
On 23 December 1890, Pearcey was hanged by James Berry. Berry noted her strong composure in the condemned cell, describing her as "the most composed person in the whole [execution] party." When prompted to make a final statement Pearcey said, "My sentence is a just one, but a good deal of the evidence against me was false".