#288 | Albert Pierrepoint | Britain’s Most Famous Executioner
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Pierpoint's Long Drop Method
In 19 forty one, pierpoint was able to execute his very first criminal as lead executioner. The man was antonio mancini, not the famous painter, but a london gangster of the same name. After that, things went quiet again, and pierpoint didn't have many executions. However, everything changed after the secondwold war. He would go on to hang around 200 war criminals. Most of them were nances, either germans or british nance sympathizers. One of pier point's most famous executions was the naze prison guard er magreze - also known as the hyena of asritz.
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