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Albert Pierrepoint (1905 – 1992)


Most celebrated member of a Yorkshire family who provided three of Britain's Chief Executioners in the first half of the 20th century.
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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.
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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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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.




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