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  3. July 27, 1992: Died:Albert Pierrepoint
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  6. TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992               
  7. July 27, 1992  The Democrats' New Generation         
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  10. <source>Time Magazine</source>
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  12. MILESTONES, Page 27
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  14. <p>    DIED. Albert Pierrepoint, 87, Britain's best-known hangman,
  15. who dispatched 433 men and 17 women in a 25-year career; in
  16. Southport, England. Pierrepoint, whose father and uncle were
  17. public executioners, hanged World War II traitor William Joyce,
  18. known as Lord Haw Haw, and Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed
  19. in Britain. He defended the noose as humane and quick (11 sec.
  20. when done properly), but when he retired in 1956 (soon after
  21. Ellis' hanging) he became a vigorous opponent of capital
  22. punishment.
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