Through the trapdoor
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2017
- From the movie "Pierrepoint" (aka The Last Hangman), a fictionalised version of the real-life execution of murderer James Inglis. From the moment the movie Inglis enters the execution room to the pulling of the lever takes 11 seconds, not the seven and a half recorded. It appears the movie couldn't film it as fast as it really happened.
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To answer a few questions that seem to have been asked.
1. The actual trap doors are a double door 2" thick oak and rather heavy. The prisoner is stood were the two doors meet. The doors fall quickly out of the way and are caught in mechanical catches so they can't rebound and strike the condemned.
2. Average time from entering gallows room to drop was 14 seconds. Mr. Ingles was in a hurry to die. He had killed his lover and wished to be with her. He has bandages on his wrists because he had attempted suicide.
3. The condemned never knew the gallows was a mere 15 feet away. The idea was to drop them swiftly while confused and disoriented. Easier for everyone all around.
4. Done correctly hanging is painless and swift. Once the spine is severed deep unconsciousness sets in instantly. The heart will continue to beat for as long as 13-14 minutes. Brain death occurs after perhaps 4 minutes or so. The condemned doesn't breath after the drop and the rope cuts of blood flow to the brain. He essentially is strangled while unconscious.
Not correct. The technique Pierrepont used disrupts the messages from the Medulla Oblongata which is the respiratory control mechanism at the base of the brain. The shock kills the brain and the lack of instructions to the heart kills the rest of the body.
@@simonmorris4226
The heart beats independent of brain signals, that is why they can be transplanted. Despite the heart beating blood can't reach the brain due to tightness of the noose constricting blood flow. It is my understanding that this causes brain death.
@@98katman no. It doesn’t. It is controlled from the medulla oblongata via the vagus nerve. I suggest you research.
How is the 'knot' positioned?-I believe this was critical
@@pigslefats underneath the left jaw. That results in a dislocation between cervical veribrae two and three leading to pretty much instantaneous death.
He was, in fact, a very humane man who tried to minimize the suffering of the condemned.
@Richard Wolfe No, that was James Berry in the 19C.
Humane man!!??He was a cold hearted paid killer who only cared about his nice fee for the judicial murder.Awful.
@@djangorheinhardt utter bullshit . he did the very best for the people put in his charge at the end of their lives
@@littlebigman5791 He still executed people ...
@Kongi Bongi if you find execution dispicable the manner in which it is done will not change your opinion
He always did hangings really quick to save the condemned from suffering and terror.
One detail that they forgot with this film: the death watch holding cell had a large wardrobe cabinet in front of the side connecting door to the execution chamber.
There seems to be considerable discussion about placement of the ropes eyelet in a proper British hanging. The eyelet is placed directly beneath the condemns left ear. The rope doesn't rotate much if any about the neck at the conclusion of the drop. The rope itself forces the head to the right, the loop around the neck then pulls towards the left. This push-pull action creates a shearing action of the neck severing the spinal column.
If only the condemned had shown their victims such compassion !
If only the "guilty" condemned. Not everyone executed was guilty.
What like Evans of Rillingron place?
@@oleggorky906 and Bentley. And Hanratty
@@chrishearfield234 I am not sure about Hanratty. But Bentley was hung for political reasons. Soon after the policeman was shot the Home Secretary promised his widow that someone would hang for it. It should be up to the judiciary alone, without political pressure, but of course, it wasn't.
Evans indeed did hang but his partner who did the deed didn't because he wasn't 18 and thus old enough to suffer capital punishment.
Bentley could have escaped whilst technically under arrest but he didn't. I feel for the policeman and his widow but I still don't believe that Bentley should have been hung in those circumstances.
Like Evans, he suffered because of a low intelligence quotient; he lacked the capacity to put himself across to the court, the barrister can't do it all. Maybe it was because of this that some people felt that they - Evans and Bentley - lacked remorse at the time, not knowing all the facts and in the heat of highly emotive trials.
Its not about revenge. Its a consequence of an action....and should be done objective with no emotion and respect for the prsioner as a human
Some _real_ acting there from Timothy Spall, where the actor inhabits the role and becomes the character. None of your "movie star" pish where so-called actors just play-act an exaggerated version of themselves in every film they're in.
Despite the grim subject, I've screened the "Pierrepoint" Blu-ray for several friends over the years and they've all been deeply impressed, especially by Spall's performance. He really should've got an Oscar.
The American title "Pierrepoint: The Last Hangman" is as dumb as a bag of rocks. Pierrepoint wasn't even the UK's last hangman, still less the definite article. He was certainly the hangman's hangman, though; the standard by which all others are judged. Frankly, if you were condemned to be hanged, you'd want Pierrepoint to officiate.
Spall is great in everything I've seen him in.
Hanged never hung when talking about people.
Yesterday the painting was hung on the wall.
Yesterday the man was hanged.
I dunno, I like to think I'm hung...
@@isaacturner9306 😉
Well, I majored in English at University many years ago & while you're technically right, there's no real hard & fast rule for it to be used exclusively when putting the capital punishment only on one form.
In fact, while traditional usage usually trumps everything else - usage usually does - I've heard quite a few folks (mostly from US English native language speakers) use "hung". But I think everyone believes they'd never want to be on the business end of a noose....😁
@@scotcarr3390 the arts degree finally paying off for you there 😁
I was idealistic & confident that I'd be writing The Great American Novel. Then I went broke & made a living in adult basic education, ESL teaching & delivering newspapers.
So, for future liberal arts majors out there, MAYBE you want to reconsider what advice your parental units gave you...😁
If you watch the episide of QI that talks about this case, you find out that the condemned asked pierrepoint to make it quick due to his fear etc. He got it a lot quicker than he expected.
What episode is it
In his biography Pierrepoint says it was in reply to a fellow hangman's claim to be the fastest.
@@dylanwells8926 the real prisoners name was James Inglis.
Hanged in under eight seconds
That can't be true. Pierrepoint never met the prisoners he hanged beforehand. Their warders advised them to go quickly and not make a fuss, while Pierrepoint and his assistants took pride in carrying out the job quickly and humanely. Pierrepoint's autobiography doesn't mention Inglis or, indeed, many other clients by name. The source of the story is his assistant on the job, Syd Dernley.
can you imagine, all that fear and tension. all over in 7 seconds. some people get last words, others get a kind gesture. this guy is literally a 7 second challenge. good greif man
Grief. Inglis ran at the noose.
The British hanging method used in the mid 20th century emphasised getting the job done as quick as possible to minimise the fear and suffering of the condemned.
So there was no long walk, last words or prayers, the hangman came into your cell, took you through the side door to the execution chamber, and had you hanging as quick as possible before you can fully process whats happening.
I don't agree with the desth penalty, but I agree with the methods here. If you must hang someone, then, for gods sake, just get it over and done with.
@@liamcollins9183 There was a yellow wardrobe in the condemned cell. Behind it was the door leading to the execution chamber.
"Do it for the Vine"
Pierrepoint was an innovator in hanging methods, he was the first to insist the trapdoor lever was positioned six feet away from the trapdoor. Prior to this hangmen would often open the trapdoor with one hand whilst their other hand was snagged under the noose.
Pierrepoint, the last face the condemned ever seen..
My god, Timothy Spall is good in this.
His part playing Albert pierpoint is unreal
He was somewhat more self centred in real life and a temper he could flip like a switch this is in his assistants memoir
Pierrepoints quickest was 7 seconds from entering the condemned cell to the prisoner hanging according to Syd Dernleys book
A good read I have the book.
I read his book and in my opinion a very unsavoury character, whose intentions were questionable.
When I watch this I think of my worst enemy going through it
"¿First time..?"....
Ah, a fan of the Coen Brothers.
Pan shot
@Gilberto S Esparza
No I've been nervous lots of times.
☺️
Timothy Spall is one of the greats! Even is it's a bad move (Not This One Of Course!) just give him the script and you're in good hands.
I actually wanted to be an executioner but I couldn't get the hang of it!
Don't get hung up on the little things there guy.
hang in there lad
Shocking, I know; thinking about where my life would beheading. Still, if given a chance, I’d like to take a shot at it.
@@jkcarroll if you think your cut out for it give it a shot by all means....either way i'm sure you'll come out a head...😂
@@awakendsails Certainly is, my friend!
We had an assistant Hangman working at our factory back in the 80s we all thought he was winding us up untill he brought us some proof official papers in to show us ,he would not tell us anything apart from him attending just one execution,he was a very strange guy,a loner who didnt last long with us before moving on some where else im glad to say...i think we all ended up having bust ups with him because of his attitude with people, i believe he would be in his 80s now if he is still alive..
As the last two were carried out simultaneously in 1964 it's unlikely but not impossible that an assistant was still working in the 80s. Royston Rickard sounds like your man but he worked in a sweet factory back in the 50s. Possibly a prison officer.
///We had an assistant Hangman working at our factory back in the 80s///
Bollocks.
@@alans9806 Rickard did 13 hangings, the person said one job. There are two assistants whom did one job each.
First name ?
@@SirD83 The only post-war hangman who only did one job was George Dickinson, who was so traumatised by assisting at a double execution at Swansea he had a sort of breakdown on the way home afterwards and emigrated to Canada. Not very likely to be him. Some later ones did as few as three.
This was the reenactment of the hanging of James Inglis on 20 April 1951 at Strangeways Prison.
Syd dernley assisting
He felt it was his duty to make it as fast and painless as possible. I have some respect for that. That and he became an abolishonist.
Not surprising considering the circumstances of his last hanging, he never considered capital punishment a deterrent
No cruel delays or procedural faff.... get it done quickly and humanly...
The condemned would be encouraged to go quickly and quietly by the guards usally
At the end of that my smartass brain hears Will Ferrel: “Hello? Can anyone hear me? I’m still alive down here. And I’m in... I’m in quite terrible pain. ...Hello?...”
The closest to that was his assistant on one job where another main guy Kirk I think, rushed the noose and it ended up not tightening enough and they heard gurgling noises in the pit. The guy probs suffered for a few mins he said it was a bad job. Albert ensured Kirky never worked again
RUN FORREST!!! 7 Seconds World Record!
Is this what they mean by the term "bum's rush"?
No endless appeals, no 20 years waiting, just quick and overwith in less than 30 seconds.
Seven and a half :)
@@neilgerace355 Not bad. Thats got to be some sort of record?
@@seanhuds229 That's what I've read, yes.
Oh yes, old Albert Pieerpoint was like lightning, infact he didn't 'hang about' like the wastes of oxygen he despatched from this earth, And he took pride in his work?
he quit after realzing he killed an innocent person
So this is what Wormtail ended up doing for work.
Did you mean "Wormtongue" from LOTR?
Harry potter
I suppose this is what is known as a suspended sentence.
Not point in keeping them hanging around.
I wonder what’s in that big draft the give you to guzzle sometimes right before the rope...?
whiskey, the customary pre death drink.
@@GetBenched2010 I read that it's Brandy
Pierrepoint wrote that the condemned cell and execution chamber doors were left unlocked during the last night.
Pierrepoint was so quick ! If he were a Q&A expert, he would have had lots of UPVOTES from students 😜
He was also quite blunt with some of the condemned. There’s one anecdote in the execution of John Reginald Christie, that after having the hood placed over his head, Christie complained that his nose itched. Pierrepoint only responded with, “It won’t bother you for long.”
A great bit of poetic justice in it, too, as Pierrepoint had previously hanged Timothy Evans, as shown in this film.
I'd love to have been able to hang out with Pierrepont
What else can I say but I can die happy now?
They've been sentenced to death. No use in messing around with it.
This particular guy had attempted suicide several times in the days leading up to his hanging. If you pay close enough attention, you can see that it is he himself who runs to the rope.
Yeah! USA has spend years trying to sanitise the act of execution.. If it has to be, this is the quickest and best way...
@@brianperry And yet they make such a show of it anyway. Pierpoint would point blank refuse to work in America, even if he would believe in death injections.
@@michalsoukup1021 sounded like a proper wetwipe haha
0.35 There's no one hangin at the end of that .... lol
What name this movie..?
@ Hammad Munir: Pierrepoint-The Last Hangman, Hammad.
The truth is a humane executioner is one who does the job as quickly as possible. Moreover, it’s not the executioner who actually kills a person. It’s the state that orders their death in the first place.
"It's not really us pulling the Lever, is it?"
The correct figure for the executions carried out by Albert Pierrepoint is 433 plus one where he observed as part of his training .... Matthew:)
It's very fast, and i don't know how anyone can work a job like this?!
To Get rid of pedos and murderers, I’d do it, no problem at all 👌👍
That presumes a decent justice system that won't have you executing innocent people all that often (of course you will execute innocents too if you stay in office for decades, because fuckups will invariably come, the only question is how often)
His father and uncle were executioners too
You better get them straps round quick lad and get off that trap or you will go down with the bugger too !
They should show this clip when there is ever any impulse to re-instate the death penalty. Pierrepoints method was humane, and fast, and only took seconds, but in his book he states at the end that, " 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 the responsibility for revenge to other people."
Math. Just mathematically and statistically (not tortured statistics designed at the outset to reinforce a choice you've already made) determine what leads to the safest society and the lowest crime rates.
Oh how his services are needed nowadays.
Pierpont seems to really have gotten the hang of it!
Seven and a half seconds, just goes to show this inmate was dying to get it over with.
This particular man startled the court room with his request to be hung as quickly as possible as his last words he simply couldn’t wait to get on the rope, he was a sailor and did a murder on leave from ship
I wonder what's the rush
Wow!
This hangguy is wormtail in Harry Potter series... what an actor!
Totally different person!
He also played Churchill
@@hemming57 and Ian Paisley
Hangman.
No messing about!
Complete pro.
When your time is up, quickly is the way to go.
Co to za film?
Pierrepoint: Ostatni Kat
To compare the British method to the US method, the movie "Dancer in the Dark" shows a pretty accurate depiction of how hanging is done in Washington State (Walla Walla prison) -- taking the overly theatrical song and dance out of it while they're walking to the gallows, once Bjork enters the death chamber, it's pretty real with lots of standing around needlessly waiting for phone calls, etc... She's on the trap for what feels like minutes waiting.
Anyone know why the US discontinued execution by hanging?
No one could do it properly
This dude was the Chuck Norris of executioners
Yes no hanging around. Just got the job over with quickly.
He never got hung up with his job
BURKE! FEED ME!
Should bring this back to UK justice system
God no that would be horrendous.
Bloody great
And the world went on without him, as it did without Pierrepoint.
If you think killing is wrong, then what do you think of someone who is PAID to kill?
You could say a sudden drop with a sudden stop
Real hangman I’m never seen this before
Je ne pensais pas qu'un bourreau devait faire la course. .Albert pierrepoint reste un exécuteur exceptionnel. .il maîtrisait tellement bien son sujet que les condamné, paraît il, ne voulais être exécutés par lui.
what are these ropes the two policemen are holding onto ?
@Pangur Ban On the end are Turks Head knots which we learned how to tie in the Scouts in the 50s. I wondered what use they'd be.
well there are 3 chain links up there only one in use. Theoretically you can put 3 away in one pull. So I’m assuming it’s ceremonial in some way
In America he would have been led to the gallows and left to stand there whilst they read out a warrant and asking him if he had any last words. The whole thing would have been a spectacle for the witnesses hungry for revenge.
You say that like it’s a bad thing, it’s not enough for justice to be done but to been seen done.
Christopher Shields 🛡 If the Prisoner has to die the execution should be carried out as quickly as possible. Can you imagine the horror for the condemned having to stand there for five minutes whilst statements are read out.
I also don’t like the idea of witnesses be allowed to attend because it’s just revenge.
john barker again justice must be public no secrets no walls put it on ppv
@@christophershields3788 I wouldn't like to witness such a thing Christopher but you do put up a good argument.
It's called punishment, and I don't lose a moment's sleep over it.
An American hangman got $300 per man, Pierrepoint only got 30 pounds, no wonder he bought a pub
£30 in the 1950's was worth £640 in today's money
Why did the choose Timothy Spall for this role? He doesnt look like Pierepoint at all. He is a good actor, yes he is !
I count more than 7 1/2 seconds. The real question is how long after he pulls the lever before death .
The time started when the condemned entered the execution room. Not at entry of execution team into the cell.
Very quick. Pierrepoint was an expert.
Pirrepoint used several calculations of height, weight, and build to determine the drop distance, to assure that the spinal cord would break and cause instant death. He was a perfectionist and also was concerned about his clients.
But the 7.5 seconds was his record, not every time.
@@1949rangerrick That depends on how you define "death". The heart stops instantly, but the brain still takes several minutes to cease all function. The victim should theoretically be unconscious for all of that time, but for obvious reasons it's very difficult to determine what, if any, subjective experience he or she undergoes.
How soon after falling through the floor is the guy dead ? Breaking the next means no pain and death is caused by what exactly. Do you simple choke ?
Snapping the neck severs the spinal cord. Without a connection to the brain, the heart stops. Without the heart pumping, there's no blood being sent to the brain. Thus one blacks out within seconds. That's assuming the drop's jerk doesn't also knock one out directly. (Disclaimer, I'm not a doctor.)
Actually the heart pumps independently of the brain connections; it's kind of self contained in that way. But respiratory failure will follow severing of the spinal cord high up, and that will kill you pretty soon after, then the heart will stop. Not all that quick though and possibly not pain free.
In this long drop method the condemned immediately loses consciousness but is left to hang until death occurs which can take several minutes. Sometimes they were left hanging for up to an hour to ensure certain death.
It’s in short (and perhaps middle drop) hangings that the victim is slowly strangled to death.
its snaps the vertebrae. Done correctly its pretty much instantaneous loss of consciousness, you wouldnt feel it. Done badly its a bloody horrible way to die.
Ive heard different theories from different medical people. No 2 are the same. I doubt its instant or painless. Human body too complex for that. No-one could say for sure.
Well Hung has a different meaning.
Old but true saying, do the crime- do the time. This includes the drop
Unless you're a Republican, then attempt a coup.
What did the inmate do in order to be executed?
Overdue library books and parking on double yellow lines.
@@simonh6371 it's not funny , Sir . I meant how many murders did this man commit
@@alessandrodorsi9800 Well it's a film and in it the character is called Markovsky, but in reality it's based upon James Inglis, who strangled a prostitute. Check wiki if you don't believe me, he was the one who ''practically ran to his execution'' after being advised by warders not to make a fuss.
@alessandrodorsi9800
It may have been just one murder. The death penalty was mandatory for murder in the UK at that time, but, in the years before it was abolished, only about 10% of death sentences were actually carried out. It tended to be used only for those murders that were deemed to be most heinous. If there was almost any significant mitigating circumstance the sentence would probably be commuted to life imprisonment.
@@sirderam1 thank you, Sir , for your gentle reply. Ciao dall'Italia 😊🇮🇹
Certainly is fast !
Such a good movie.
Didn’t even get to say goodbye 😂
Bruh I just realized this is scabbers
Having seen the movie but it looked bit personal. Was this a Christie(?) for whose crimes Evans(?) been executed?
No, this wasn't Christie, and it wasn't personal. This particular prisoner had actually requested that the execution be carried out quickly. He just wanted to get it over with.
Pierrpointe was normally very quick and efficient anyway. He believed that it was more humane to do it quickly before the condemned person had much time to think about what was about to happen. I think he averaged about 14 seconds from the moment he entered the condemned cell to the trapdoor opening.
The whole British system for hanging was designed so that the exact procedure, and especially the quickness of it all, would come as a surprise to the prisoner so that it would all be over before they really knew what had happened.
sirderam1 , thanks for reply and explanation. Actor looked tense if not angry in this scene and I was wondering about it.
I honestly wonder what goes through anyones mind when they know they're about to die?
Not just thosr facing execution, but anyone
Where did he get 7 and a half seconds from?! 😂 From entering the cell to trap opening is 18 at least and this is a film edit. Some of Dernleys anecdotes were provably exaggerated so I’d have a bit of salt handy. It was quick but not that quick.
Why the sudden rush?
Yeah yeah.
Mercy. When Pierrepoint had to execute war criminals there was a young nazi maiden which was quite blunt against him. When he decided the order in which he wanted to hang those people, he choosed that girl to be the first. One of his assistants murmured something like "right, that witch", and he replied: "She is the youngest, she will fear the most".
The less time someone has to expect to be dead, the better.
@@Hanna1968 Irma
@@Hanna1968 I have to disagree Mrs. Langner I didn't see a man showing mercy, rather haste.
I'm well aware of the scene you were referencing too, the young blonde Nazi girl, and his choice to put her on the "stand" first. That was showing mercy to her, based on her youth.
But this execution, was almost haphazard. As a matter of fact, please study this scene again. The condemned man offered NO resistance, I didn't even notice any fear on his face(as it was all too quick)... and at the end another witness says, " seven and a half seconds, that's a record"
Pierrepoint, wanted to impress the prison officials with his capability. How fast he could get the job done... sure there was a need an executioner how could do the job fast. But to prove his point in such a way which involves the execution of a man, I found that very wrong.
I believe that the condemned man had requested for it to be over as quick as possible and he did actually run to the gallows.
In total Pierrepoint hung 435 people in 24 years. That's some record.
Most of those were Nazis for war crimes committed
No one knows how many, he kept private records and never discussed the amount
What I don’t understand - what we’re the guards holding to on either side of the gallows?
They`re preventing the possibility of any slack developing on the rope thus ensuring the prisoner`s neck is broken and isn`t decapitated
The guards were holding support ropes with Turks Head knots on the end of them. This was in case the sudden opening of the trap doors induced vertigo, causing them to lose their balance and fall through the trap doors themselves.
There has to be something very strange about anyone who's job it was to kill people and just carry on as normal.
Everything is unusual until you get used to it.
whose job
We shoul have this now. If DNA and any cctv evidence were conclusive then why not. If there was any doubt whatsoever then LIFE imprisonment should be the sentence.
dna is unreliable and can be planted
cctv=useless
Pardon. .je voulais dire que par lui a la fin.
his dept to to society paid in full the slate is now clean
John christi the poor chap went down in seven seconds, may the Lord have mercy in his soul, strangeways
Poor chap? A bastard in my opinion.
@@loskattos Christie was the one who was actually guilty for the crimes committed at 10 Rillington Place?
@@anthonybanchero3072 Of course, he was. I was reacting to the person who wrote the lines above mine.
The bastard also murdered Timothy Evans wife and daughter and testfied that Timothy himself was the perp. Timothy got executed by Pierrepoint who later "took care" of the bastard Christie.
This wasn't Christy.
Doesn't f*ck around, does he?
Where’s the fire?
Where he's going lol
The guy had hair before he ran him over to the noose,pierrpoint marched him over that fast
Stop just stop.
@@SLOTHSRIDEUNICORNS I know, terrible aren't I 😂
At least he didn't need counseling.
It looks like he found a "safe space", huh?
Speerdun ?
Was he in a hurry to go to the toilet?
No he wanted to make it painless
What's really stupid about this movie is that the condemned person is turning around to face his executioner every time.
The actual procedure was designed so that the executioner would approach the condemned person from behind.
He would stand up and immediately cuffed without being able to turn around.
Next, he would be led out of the secret door behind which the gallows was waiting.
A far better reconstruction of Pierrepoint's method of execution can be seen in "10 Rillington Place (1971)"
Different prisons employed different disguises of the gallows. Sometimes a wardrobe hid the door. Other times the drop room had a series of folding doors and appeared to be a lobby of sorts. The prisoner would willingly walk into the "lobby" unaware that the folding doors were open revealing the gallows.
"stupid" so you havent actually seen then film? because thats what happens and is gone into in detail
@@jamesmaybrick2001 Yes, I have seen the movie and like I said, "10 Rillington Place (1971)" did it accurately.
In "Pierrepoint," for some reason they turned him into someone who looks like an executioner in the first place. In reality, the man looked more like an accomplished businessman or a teacher at a university.
I take it you haven't seen none of these movies and are just trolling to get more info because you're too lousy to even look up these things.
Wow, 7 1/2 seconds. ⚰️
One two three g’bye
Pity we don't do it now
People say we should bring back hanging. I completely disagree. No state during peacetime should resort to killing people. The death penalty is a form of revenge and not justice. Another argument is the death penalty is a quick way out. Myra Hindley and especially Ian Brady wanted and would have welcomed the death penalty rather than life in prison.
The families of victims of Fred West felt he cheated his punishment by killing himself. The same with Shipman.
Everyone has an opinion on capital punishment. I can't say I felt too bad when Timothy McVeigh was executed. He murdered 76 people in his terrorist act, I feel for their families-not McVeigh. Nearly all the folks executed in the USA are done so for crimes that are so egregious and horrific that it's difficult to extend ethics in their direction.
If you don't KILL them then in ten years some weepy judge lets them out.
Why was he in so much hurry?
He wanted to die and had already attempted suicide while in custody.
Pierrepoint wanted to make 12 seconds which had been his father's average .... in the end he smashed a new record.
THE RUSH TO THE GALLOWS: it was to prevent emotional collapse imposed on the condemned persons and to reduce the possibility of him/her having to be dragged in temper, or carried to the scaffold in a faint. The Priest or Vicar who attended was a stage prop whose presence suggested; First we are going to have a short church service, some prayers then an hymn or two, so you have nothing to worry about you won't be hanged for an half-hour or so, they were dead within 10 - 12 seconds as the gallows was just behind the death cell wall (hidden by a cupboard) and about 15 foot away.
From what I read, the inmate was told by the guards 'To go quickly when the time comes'. What they meant is not to delay things. What he did was to take their advice literally, hence he went qiuckly. The scene is fairly accurate in that he 'damned near ran to the drop'.
The gallows is only 20 foot away, behind a cupboard in the condemned cell, slide the cupboard away - walk through the hole and you're stood on the gallows, grab the rope slip it over his neck, put bag on head, tie both/ankles together and pull the lever and let him swing away to heaven. 8.5 seconds and gone and most are resigned to their fate. Only one, a German spy ever refused to be hung, and fought is way to the gallows.
Uhm, guys. I just woke up and saw this clip. Maybe a warning next time? Kind of a shock to the system. 😬. Be well all.
You didn't have to watch it.
Have a look at Keith Simpsons Post Mortem report on the Hanging of Ruth Ellis.
Great spall
Make it quick and get it over with
7 and a half seconds!
People forget that innocent victims were hung in the past and then pardoned after realising they didn't commit the crime.
Julian Mitchell hanging was simply a means to an end. If innocent people were hanged then it was the legal system at fault. It was less robust in those days. Miscarriages of justice now are less likely to happen but sadly there is no hanging.
That is the problem of having incompetent police forces not the justice system.
It did work. How many die now from the blood feuds in London with the knife crime? No deterrent and no feeling amongst the youth that the police will do anything to those found guilty
The death penalty gives closure and no feeling that the guilty will get out early
@James Dowds that argument doesn't make sense. Thousands of innocent people are killed in road accidents every year. Are you going to ban cars? Or are they made too useful and the side effects of people dying in accidents acceptable, outweighed by their economic benefit?
With modern forensics it is much harder to execute an innocent person. But, if the murder rates went down as expected, would a small minority of innocents be worth the greater benefit of a more peaceful society? We have decided this is OK for motoring...
The issue is the state has stopped execution. But people haven't. The amount of people who are only alive due to modern emergency medicine in attempted murders is very scary. If the amount of woundings with intent to murder was played out with 1950s medical practice the death rate would be sky high.
Perhaps the rate was much lower due to the detterence effect.
Why don't you ask if innocent inner city kids being killed in blood and turf feuds today would like the death penalty back? The only issue is we can't, they're dead anyway. Your argument makes no sense
@@nevermind824 your car analogy is such a straw man argument. The death penalty does not work and killing one innocent person (like Timothy Evans) rules the process invalid and immoral.
Why did the condemned run to the gallow?
I understand that he himself had asked that it should be done as quickly as possible.
To get to the other side.
Yeah. Quick. A prick would countdown slowly and stop at two to ask someone to order his lunch