Albert Pierrepoint cut an unlikely figure as a national symbol of death. A cheerful northern landlord, he liked his beer pulled properly and his pub run without fuss. To customers drifting into the ...

Albert Pierrepoint became Britain's most prolific killer clocking up more than 600 executions to his name ...

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