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Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman

1h 35m|R|Drama|AMC+|2007
Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) finds great success as Britain's most famous public executioner, and his notoriety rises to a new level after he is selected to hang Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials, but the experience changes him, and he begins to question the morality of his vocation at the same time that abolitionists begin a campaign to end hanging.

Director:

Adrian Shergold

Cast:

Timothy Spall, Juliet Stevenson, Eddie Marsan, Michael Norton, Cavan Clerkin, Christopher Fulford, Ian Shaw, Maggie Ollerenshaw
Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman
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