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Albert Pierrepoint Quotes

1905–1992 England

Albert Pierrepoint (30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was the best known 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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The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off.

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.

Quick? I thought of the Austrian executioners who had hung on to the legs of their strangling prisoner to finish the job, until I brought them the British method.

Executioner: Pierrepoint (1977)

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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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Albert Pierrepoint (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.