EXCLUSIVE: Bohemian Rhapsody star Lucy Boynton is to headline an ITV series about the last woman to hang in the UK. Boynton will play Ruth Ellis, a nightclub hostess who was hanged at the age of 28 ...

Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, continues to inspire a morbid fascination in the public imagination. This week, ITV will premiere a new dramatisation of Ellis’s life, crime, and ...

“I’ll say to you what I said to your father,” says Albert Pierrepoint’s mother early in “Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman,” opening today at the IFC Center. “Don’t bring it over that threshold.” The “it” ...

Albert Pierrepoint delivered groceries - and was a hangman. Following in his father's footsteps he quickly became known for his efficiency and compassion, rising to become 'the best in the land'. From ...

lowing in the footsteps of his father and uncle before him, Albert Pierrepoint joins the 'family business' in 1934. He rises through the ranks to become the most feared and respected executioner in ...

After the House of Commons voted to outlaw the death penalty, Britain’s Chief Hangman Albert Pierrepoint, 45, quit the job that has been in his family for 85 years and turned his strong, steady hand ...

The Vault is Slate’s new history blog. Like us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter @slatevault; find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. Albert Pierrepoint was an ...

Swinging through Europe, on a hangman’s holiday, which will take him to Vienna, Graz, northern Italy and (reportedly) to Nürnberg in time to officiate should Nazi leaders be hanged: Albert (“Yungg ...

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 ...

A new era is born.