As Timothy Spall plays him, Albert Pierrepoint is rather dispassionate about all this killing. He sees himself simply as the instrument of the state, an efficient tool whose purpose is to expedite a ...

A working-class man goes on to achieve fame as a hangman: he ensures a quick and humane death without judging the merits of guilt or innocence. But when he is called to Germany to execute Nuremberg ...

Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman, which first debuted at the Toronto Film Festival back in 2005, may have the highest body count of any movie to hit American theaters this side of 300. Since Albert ...