Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman is a British drama film directed by Adrian Shergold and written by Jeff Pope and Bob Mills. The film portrays the highly fictionalized account of the British executioner ...

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter @slatevault; find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Albert Pierrepoint was an ...

As Timothy Spall plays him, Albert Pierrepoint is rather dispassionate about all this killing. He sees himself simply as the instrument of the state, an efficient tool whose purpose is to expedite a ...

Albert Pierrepoint, the Lancashire grocery deliveryman who doubled as England’s most prolific and self-effacing executioner between 1934 and 1956, was not, as the title of Adrian Shergold’s new drama ...

Today on Trailers from Hell, the always-erudite Brian Trenchard-Smith introduces 2007’s executioner drama "Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman," starring Timothy Spall, an Oscar hopeful this year in "Mr.

Some chose jobs as train drivers, policemen or nurses. But Albert, just 11, had an unusual ambition. "When I leave school," he wrote, "I should like to be the Official Executioner." Or as most people ...

The star of Pierrepoint says that he hopes the new film will be recognised as one of the most successful anti-capital punishment works ever made. It may, therefore, disappoint Timothy Spall and fellow ...

Adrian Shergold's Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman is a biopic of England's most prolific modern executioner, and with a subject like that, tone is all. Shergold goes for a kind of gray-hued miserablism, ...

Albert Pierrepoint delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following in his father's footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion, rising to become 'the best in the land'. From ...

lowing in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him, Albert Pierrepoint joins the 'family business' in 1934. He rises through the ranks to become the most feared and respected executioner in ...