Albert Pierrepoint, Britain’s most famous executioner talks about his career. - click on link to hear the sound file.

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Pierrepoint's service to the Crown is a closely guarded secret but his anonymity is blown away when he is asked by Field Marshal Montgomery to execute Nazi war criminals following the Nuremburg trials.

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Albert Pierrepoint interview

Albert Pierrepoint, Britain’s most famous executioner talks about his career and attitude to capital punishment in an archive 1976 BBC Radio Merseyside interview.

U.K. Capital Punishment - The last two hangings in Britain took place simultaneously at Walton Prison in Liverpool and Strangeways Prison in Manchester at 8am on 13th August 1964.

The death penalty was suspended in 1965, but remained for crimes including piracy with violence and arson on a Royal Dockyard.

In January 1999 Home Secretary Jack Straw signed protocol six of the European Convention of Human Rights, formally abolishing the death penalty in the U.K.

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