Pierrepoint (opening June 8 at Landmarks Hillcrest Cinemas) bears the subtitle The Last Hangman. Apparently that's not entirely accurate but the film proves to be a fascinating portrait of a man whose ...

Pierrepoint is a fascinating portrait of a man who felt called to fulfill his destiny as an executioner, like his father and his father's father before him, weaving two braids of experience - one ...

'She's about as far away from me as it is possible to be,' says Juliet Stevenson, the finest classical actress of her generation, about her latest role as the wife of the prolific British hangman in ...

Lizzie Seal is a member of the Howard League for Penal Reform. Fifty years ago this Sunday, Britain passed a law which brought an end to the death penalty for murder and consigned the noose to history ...

Timothy Spall on Pierrepoint, Britain 's most famous hangman. Oscar nominated Amy Adams. Dolly Parton works 9 to 5. Plus Julian Fellowes on cinematic adultery. On The Film Programme this week: Timothy ...

Moments before the white hood of a condemned man was placed over his head, John Amery, a Second World War traitor, turned to his besuited executioner holding the noose and said: "I've always wanted to ...

The death penalty was abolished in Britain back in 1965, but up until a few years before the last hangmen were still at work in Her Majesty’s Prison Service. One of these and probably the most ...

Timothy Spall is the perfect choice to play Albert Pierrepoint, the British hangman who executed some 450 people from 1932 to 1955—one look at Spall’s lopsided glare and you’d probably jump through ...

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Twelve terrorists. One cop. The odds are against John McClane... That's just the way he likes it.