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The death penalty was abolished in Britain back in 1965, but up until a few years before the last hangmen were still at work in Her Majesty’s Prison Service. One of these and probably the most prolific was Albert Pierrepoint whose life was the subject of a 2005 film starring Timothy Spall. Born the son of an executor in 1905, Pierrepoint followed in his father Henry and uncle Tom’s footsteps and executed between 435 and 600 people during a 25-year career.