Records of executioneers

joelglach | 23:42 Sun 03rd Jun 2007 | History

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Are there any records of the names of executioneers in Ireland or Uk

The Border Regiment 1920's

PIAT - fairly useless anti tank weapon

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starmack

Start with this guy and his family

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Executioner-Pierrepoin t-Albert/dp/0340717017

starmack

The third book on this list is highly relevant

http://books.google.com/books?q=Pierrepoint%2B books&ots=A9Ehg3V0ZX&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title

starmack

This link is worth looking at and clicking

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging

In modern English folk music Fairport Convention did an entire album in 1973, "Babbacombe" Lee, which related the tale of a man for whom the trapdoor failed to open on three occasions and he was set free. You wont find many of those incidents!!

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