Executioner: Pierrepoint by Albert Pierrepoint

Coronet Books 
1977 
Paperback 
208 Pages 
11 x 18cm 

Condition: Fair  

Britain’s most famous hangman, who executed up to 600 people between 1932 and 1956, recounts a career spent administering capital punishment at home and abroad.

During his tenure he hanged 200 people who had been convicted of war crimes in Germany and Austria, as well as several high-profile murderers including Gordon Cummins the Blackout Ripper, John Haigh the Acid Bath Murderer and John Christie the Rillington Place Strangler.

Writing with restraint rather than sensationalism, Pierrepoint describes the mechanics of execution alongside the moral weight it carried. The book helped shift public opinion and contributed to the eventual abolition of the death penalty in Britain.