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Executioner’s Song

Pierrepoint: Gallows-Riffic!

“It’s just in me,” Albert Pierrepoint confesses, the look on his face somewhere between shame and relief. “Always knew it would come out someday.” Pierrepoint, like his father before him, was an executioner for the British government, and a good one—between 1932 and 1956, he executed an estimated 450 men and women. Here, in Pierrepoint: […]

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