But the man who was finally accepted for the role of hangman in Sri Lanka’s prison system got cold feet after just one week when he saw the gallows for the first time. The hangman was so distressed he ...

Some of the chilling tools used by Britain's most famous hangman are being put up for auction. Albert Pierrepoint executed around 600 people including notorious German Nazi war criminal Josef Kramer ...

A SMILING pub landlord led a secret double life and was responsible for the deaths of nearly 600 people. Anyone supping a pint in a boozer where Albert Pierrepoint worked would more than likely be ...

HARARE, ZimbabweHARARE, Zimbabwe — Wanted: A hangman. High school education required. No experience necessary. Zimbabwe’s last executioner retired after carrying out his last execution in 2004. The ...

The package up for auction includes an execution diary, rare photos and plaster casts of his face and hands taken after his death. Boldon Auction Galleries Limited An execution diary kept by Britain’s ...

MEERUT, India – Ten times, Mammu Singh has tightened the noose around a condemned man’s neck, pulled the trapdoor’s iron lever and watched the prisoner drop, and this is the thanks he gets. The ...

The man who was once Malaysia’s ‘number one executioner’ (pictured) has explained how an Australian grandmother convicted of drug trafficking will die An Australian grandmother will be given just ...

AN EXECUTION diary kept by Britain’s most famous hangman is up at auction for £25,000. Albert Pierrepoint is responsible for the deaths of around 600 people during his 25-year career as an executioner ...

MEERUT, India — Ten times, Mammu Singh has tightened the noose around a condemned man’s neck, pulled the trapdoor’s iron lever and watched the prisoner drop, and this is the thanks he gets. The ...

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