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If The Death Penalty Was Reintroduced Where...
... would the authorities find the hangmen?
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The Home Office kept a list of trained executioners and assistants.
Applicants were trained at Pentonville Prison and if satisfactory they were added to the list.
Pierrepoint wasn't the last hangman.
His last execution was in 1955 when he hanged Norman Green.
He retired in 1956.
The last executions in Britain took place at 8.00 a.m. on the 13th August 1964.
Gwynne Evans was hanged at Strangeways Prison, Manchester, by Harry Allen.
Simultaneously, Peter Allen was hanged at Walton Prison, Liverpool, by Robert "Jock" Stewart.
Evans and Allen had been found guilty of murdering John Alan West, in the course of robbery..
Applicants were trained at Pentonville Prison and if satisfactory they were added to the list.
Pierrepoint wasn't the last hangman.
His last execution was in 1955 when he hanged Norman Green.
He retired in 1956.
The last executions in Britain took place at 8.00 a.m. on the 13th August 1964.
Gwynne Evans was hanged at Strangeways Prison, Manchester, by Harry Allen.
Simultaneously, Peter Allen was hanged at Walton Prison, Liverpool, by Robert "Jock" Stewart.
Evans and Allen had been found guilty of murdering John Alan West, in the course of robbery..
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