In the Middle Ages, decapitations were executed with regular swords, and the earliest known specifically designed executioner's swords dates to ca.
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John Ellis (1874–1932) was born in Balderstone and became one of the United Kingdom's executioners.
Klemettilä, Hannele: The executioner in late medieval French culture.
The hangings were carried out by British hangman Albert Pierrepoint, who had travelled undercover to Gibraltar to carry out the executions.
Carl Peter Hermann Christensen (1869–1936), last executioner in office for the government of Denmark
In Britain, the most notable dynasty was the Pierrepoints, who provided three executioners between 1902 and 1956 - Henry, his brother Thomas, and Henry's son Albert.
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He cooperated with Allied chief executioner Master Sergeant John C. Woods in the preparations for further executions of those found guilty and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials.
Commander in chief of the Alsace, he was an implacable executioner of the orders of Louis XIV and Louvois.
His own books that became national bestsellers and made the New York Times Bestseller list include American Tragedy, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Cape May Court House, and Into the Mirror. He has directed seven motion pictures and miniseries for television; The Executioner's Song and Peter the Great won five Emmys.
He succeeds and is later described by a Scotland Yard detective as "the most cold blooded executioner the movement has seen since Collins and his murder squad".
Luigi Lucheni is a prominent character in the Michael Kunze/Sylvester Levay musical Elisabeth, where he serves as a bitter, sarcastic narrator of the events of Elisabeth's life and in the end becomes her executioner.
She also was depicted as a feline running up the side of an executioner's staff.
He was succeeded by his son, Fernand Meyssonnier, who from young age served his father as assistant and eventually became the last executioner in French Algieria, even if formally never appointed, as Maurice retained his position but ceased to carry out the death sentences.
The 2010 Festival presented N.Y. premieres of restored prints of Falk Harnack's The Axe of Wandsbek (based on Arnold Zweig's novel) about a man who was a paid executioner for the Nazis; and Henry Lynn's classic 1935 Yiddish melodrama, Bar Mitzvah, which features vaudeville jokes, songs, and dancing, and stars legendary actor Boris Thomashefsky in his only film performance.
In 1840 he became assistant to the executioner William Calcraft before being appointed as executioner for Staffordshire in his own right.
According to historians Greg King and Penny Wilson, Ermakov played a leading role in the executions, and is considered to have been the right hand of chief executioner Yakov Yurovsky.
The World Anti Doping Association (WADA) and its president Dick Pound come in for some particular criticism, with Landis describing them as Judge, Jury and Executioner and labeling Pound as "a liar" who attempted to smear Landis by allegedly releasing information to the media undermining Landis' case.
On the 1957 printing of the list, Stewart and Harry Allen were both promoted to the role of executioner in the wake of the resignation of Albert Pierrepoint and the death of Wade, both in 1956.
He has also sung the role of Mongol Commander as well as the Executioner in Rumi Opera directed by Behrouz Gharibpour and composed by Behzad Abdi and served as the foil to Shams (sang by Homayoun Shajarian) and Molana (sang by Mohammad Motamedi).
Especially persistent is Bruno (Morgan Wallace), the island's executioner, who steals the money that Carl sends her, with the hope that she will think that Carl has abandoned her.
The term Scharfrichter (German for executioner, literally: "keen judge") refers specifically to a tradition of executioners in the German states.
Steven Keats (February 6, 1945 – May 8, 1994) was an American actor who appeared in such films as Silent Rage, Death Wish, Gumball Rally, Black Sunday, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Badge of the Assassin and the TV-movie version of the Norman Mailer book The Executioner's Song starring Tommy Lee Jones.
He was well received for his role in the play Hot Mikado by the Bexley Times which wrote, "In a good cast, Stuart Draper shone brightest as the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko, a blustering, avaricious coward in a pink suit who would have given Rik Mayall or Alexi Sayle a run for their money in the comedy stakes.".
He was a welder by trade, but was appointed assistant executioner by the Home Office in 1949, and participated in 20 hangings until he was replaced in 1954.
The film stars Indonesian action star Barry Prima who appears in such films as Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters and The Warrior.
The fourth novel, The Pretenders, recalls the life of Antonio “Tony” Samson, the son of Victor, the half-brother of Luis Asperri in My Brother, My Executioner (Victor was imprisoned for life for murdering Luis Asperri).
The Traveling Executioner is a 1970 American film starring Stacy Keach, Bud Cort, Stefan Gierasch and Marianna Hill and directed by Jack Smight.
Greenhalgh has also performed on the Langford-organized Pine Valley Cosmonauts albums, contributing a cover of Hank Williams's "Angel of Death" to 2003's anti-death penalty benefit, The Executioner's Last Songs Vol.
Films included: Un' Avventura di Salvator Rosa (The Adventure of Salvator Rosa) (1939); Sei bambine ed il Perseo (Perseus and the six children) (1940); Il Re d'Inghilterra non paga (The King of England Won't Pay) (1941); Don Buonaparte (1941); Don Cesare di Bazan (1942) aka La Lama del giustiziere, (The Executioner's Blade Italy: reissue title).