The Family Business

The Monday Night Revue · Jul 14, 2026 · 50m

For over fifty years, if someone was going to be hanged in Britain, chances were it would be a Pierrepoint holding the lever.Henry, Thomas and Albert Pierrepoint were Britain's most extraordinary family of state executioners — three generations who between them hanged approximately nine hundred people, including Nazi war criminals, British traitors, serial killers, and at least one man who was almost certainly innocent. Albert alone carried out between 435 and 600 executions, perfecting a method so precise he could complete a hanging in under twelve seconds.He hanged thirteen Nazi SS guards…