Locations of executions conducted by Albert Pierrepoint

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Albert Pierrepoint (1905 – 1992) was the most prolific British hangman of the twentieth century, executing 433 men and 17 women between 1932 and 1955. This table records the locations of each of the executions he participated in, the numbers in brackets being the number of executions he was Assistant Executioner at (often assisting his uncle, Thomas Pierrepoint), the other numbers are those are which he officiated as Chief Executioner.

Apart from within the United Kingdom, Pierrepoint also conducted executions in the Republic of Ireland, at Dublin's Mountjoy Prison; for the British colonial authorities in Gibraltar and in the Suez Canal Zone, Egypt; and most famously in the British occupation zones of Germany and Austria, at Hameln and Graz, where he executed 200 Nazi war criminals.

Locations of Albert Pierrepoints' executions (as Chief Executioner, in brackets as Assistant Executioner)
Year Armley
Leeds		 Barlinnie
Glasgow		 Bedford Belfast Bristol Cardiff Durham Edinburgh Egypt Exeter Gibraltar Gloucester
1932 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1933 - - - (1) - - - - - - - -
1934 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1935 - - (1) - - - - - - - - -
1936 - - - - - - (1) - - - - -
1937 - - - - - - - - - (1) - -
1938 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1939 - - - - - - - - - - - (1)
1940 - - (1) - - - (3) - - - - -
1941 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1942 - - - (1) - - (1) - - - - -
1943 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1944 - - - - - - - - - - 2 -
1945 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1946 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1947 - - - - 1 - - - - - - -
1948 - - - - - 1 - - - - - -
1949 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1950 - 2 - - 2 - 1 - 3 - - -
1951 - - - - - - - 1 - - - -
1952 - 2 - - 1 2 - - 1 - - -
1953 1 1 - - 2 - - - - - - -
1954 - - - - - - - 2 - - - -
1955 - - - - - - - - - - - -


Year Hameln
Germany		 Holloway
London		 Hull Karlou
Graz
Austria		 Leicester Lincoln Mountjoy
Dublin		 Norwich Oxford Pentonville
London		 Perth Shepton Mallet
1932 - - - - - - (1) - - - - -
1933 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1934 - - (1) - - - - - - - - -
1935 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1936 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1937 - - - - - - (1) - - - - -
1938 - - - - - - - - - - - -
1939 - - - - - - (1) - - - - -
1940 - - - - - - - - - (3) - -
1941 - - - - (1) - (3) - - 1 - -
1942 - - - - - - - - (1) 2 - -
1943 - - - - - - (2) - - 1 - (2)
1944 - - - - (2) - (1) - - 4 - (2)
1945 13 - - - - - 1 - - 9 - (3)
1946 54 - - 8 - - - - - 4 - -
1947 69 - - - - - 1 - - 3 - -
1948 51 - - - - - 1 1 1 1 1 -
1949 6 - - - - 1 - - - 3 - -
1950 - - - - - - - 1 - 2 - -
1951 - - - - - 1 - 2 - 1 - -
1952 - - - - - 1 - - 1 5 - -
1953 - - - - 1 - - - - 2 - -
1954 - 1 - - - 1 1 - - 2 - -
1955 - 1 - - - 1 - - - - - -


Year Shrewsbury Strangeways
Manchester		 Swansea Walton
Liverpool		 Wandsworth
London		 Winchester Winson Green
Birmingham
1932 - - - - - - -
1933 - - - (1) - - (2)
1934 - - - - (2) - -
1935 - - - - - - -
1936 - - - - - - (1)
1937 - (1) - - - - -
1938 - (1) - (1) (1) - -
1939 - - - - (1) - -
1940 - - - - - - (2)
1941 - - - - 2 (2) - -
1942 - - - - 8 - -
1943 - - - - 6 - -
1944 - - - - - - -
1945 - - - - 5 - -
1946 - - - 3 8 - -
1947 - 1 - - 2 - -
1948 - - - 1 - - -
1949 - 1 2 1 3 1 1
1950 - 2 1 1 1 2 1
1951 1 4 - - 2 1 1
1952 2 2 - 2 2 - 2
1953 - 2 - 1 2 - -
1954 1 1 1 1 3 - -
1955 - - - 2 1 - 1











































Source: Fielding, 2006.[1]

Plus 4 executed at an unknown location in Germany in 1948, and 5 more in 1949.






































[edit] References

  1. ^ Fielding, Steve, Pierrepoint: A Family of Executioners, 2006, ISBN 1-84454-192-4, pp.294-303
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