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PIERREPOINT: A Family of Executioners

A revised and detailed account of Britain’s infamous hangmen released to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Albert Pierrepoint’s resignation as chief hangman in February 1956.

For fifty years, generations of the Pierrepoint family served as fearsome hangmen in England. The dynasty began in 1901 when Henry Pierrepoint decided to embark on the rather unique career path towards becoming an executioner. Inspired by the then notorious Official Executioner, James Billington, and eager to fulfil his ambitions, Henry wrote to the Home Office with letters requesting that they consider him for the sinister profession. Keeping it in the family, he persuaded his brother, Thomas, to join him and then, in time, his son Albert also joined the family trade, going on to become Chief Executioner. Between them, they carried out almost 900 executions!

Having only taken up the role a decade after his father’s death, Albert Pierrepoint went on to become the most prolific and efficient hangman this country has ever known. He, like his father and uncle before him, was responsible for the execution of some of the most notorious criminals of the time – from Ruth Ellis and Derek Bentley to John Christie and Lord Haw Haw.

PIERREPOINT: A Family of Executioners recounts the intriguing lives of the three men and the effect that their macabre occupation had on their personal lives. This definitive guide is filled with curious and shocking inside tales of the executions and the victims from the official records and diaries kept by the Pierrepoint family.

Steve Fielding is the author of over 20 historical crime titles such as The Hangman’s Record and The Murder Casebook series. He has worked as the Historical Consultant on the Discovery Channel series The Executioners and has contributed to several magazines such as The Criminologist, True Crime and Master Detective.

www.stevefielding.com