United Kingdom, Hangman March 30, 1905 – July, 10, 1992.
Albert Pierrepoint was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father, Henry, and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him.
All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment, convince me that in what I have done, I have not prevented a single murder.
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people.
The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.
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