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Episode 261

In the grey light of post-war Britain, one man carried a burden few could imagine. Quiet, polite, and almost invisible in everyday life, he ran a small pub in the north of England. Customers knew him as a cheerful landlord with a quick smile and a pint ready at the bar. But beyond the clink of glasses and cigarette smoke, Albert Pierrepoint lived a second life.

He was Britain’s most famous executioner.

Over the course of his career, Pierrepoint would send more than 400 people to the gallows — murderers, spies, gangsters, and Nazi war criminals. He believed his work was a duty. A service to justice. Yet behind the calm professionalism was a man constantly walking the line between ordinary life and death itself.

This is the story of Albert Pierrepoint — the last great hangman of Britain — and the hidden cost of becoming the man chosen to end the lives of others.

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