Through the trapdoor 

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.

He was, in fact, a very humane man who tried to minimize the suffering of the condemned.

He always did hangings really quick to save the condemned from suffering and terror.

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.

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.

If only the condemned had shown their victims such compassion !

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.

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.

Hanged never hung when talking about people. Yesterday the painting was hung on the wall. Yesterday the man was hanged.

Pierrepoint, the last face the condemned ever seen..

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

My god, Timothy Spall is good in this.

Pierrepoints quickest was 7 seconds from entering the condemned cell to the prisoner hanging according to Syd Dernleys book

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.

"¿First time..?"....

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!

This was the reenactment of the hanging of James Inglis on 20 April 1951 at Strangeways Prison.

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..

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?...”

So this is what Wormtail ended up doing for work.

When I watch this I think of my worst enemy going through it

No cruel delays or procedural faff.... get it done quickly and humanly...

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.

Albert Pierrepoint a man of his time at the top of his profession, a humane person dedicated to dispatching prisoners quickly and painlessly as possible. In Britain they were hanged, not strangled.

Is this what they mean by the term "bum's rush"?

RUN FORREST!!! 7 Seconds World Record!

I wonder what’s in that big draft the give you to guzzle sometimes right before the rope...?

I went to Albert Pierrepont pub once. " The hangmans knot Inn." 😂😂😂😂

They've been sentenced to death. No use in messing around with it.

No endless appeals, no 20 years waiting, just quick and overwith in less than 30 seconds.

I suppose this is what is known as a suspended sentence.

The correct figure for the executions carried out by Albert Pierrepoint is 433 plus one where he observed as part of his training .... Matthew:)

I'd love to have been able to hang out with Pierrepont

Wow! This hangguy is wormtail in Harry Potter series... what an actor! Totally different person!

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.

Pierrepoint wrote that the condemned cell and execution chamber doors were left unlocked during the last night.

It's very fast, and i don't know how anyone can work a job like this?!

Oh how his services are needed nowadays.

No messing about!

What name this movie..?

0.35 There's no one hangin at the end of that .... lol

BURKE! FEED ME!

Bloody great

Seven and a half seconds, just goes to show this inmate was dying to get it over with.

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?

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?

This dude was the Chuck Norris of executioners

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.

Pierpont seems to really have gotten the hang of it!

Should bring this back to UK justice system

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 ?

what are these ropes the two policemen are holding onto ?

You could say a sudden drop with a sudden stop

Co to za film?

An American hangman got $300 per man, Pierrepoint only got 30 pounds, no wonder he bought a pub

I wonder what's the rush

John christi the poor chap went down in seven seconds, may the Lord have mercy in his soul, strangeways

Having seen the movie but it looked bit personal. Was this a Christie(?) for whose crimes Evans(?) been executed?

I count more than 7 1/2 seconds. The real question is how long after he pulls the lever before death .

Real hangman I’m never seen this before

Old but true saying, do the crime- do the time. This includes the drop

Why did the choose Timothy Spall for this role? He doesnt look like Pierepoint at all. He is a good actor, yes he is !

When your time is up, quickly is the way to go.

What did the inmate do in order to be executed?

Pierrepoint was so quick ! If he were a Q&A expert, he would have had lots of UPVOTES from students 😜

There has to be something very strange about anyone who's job it was to kill people and just carry on as normal.

In total Pierrepoint hung 435 people in 24 years. That's some record.

Bruh I just realized this is scabbers

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."

Certainly is fast !

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.

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)"

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.

his dept to to society paid in full the slate is now clean

Such a good movie.

Well Hung has a different meaning.

No messing about, all over in seconds. About as humane as you get really. Still don't agree with though..

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.

Why the sudden rush?

Didn’t even get to say goodbye 😂

Doesn't f*ck around, does he?

I honestly wonder what goes through anyones mind when they know they're about to die? Not just thosr facing execution, but anyone

At least he didn't need counseling.

The guy had hair before he ran him over to the noose,pierrpoint marched him over that fast

Pardon. .je voulais dire que par lui a la fin.

The German executioner Johann Reichhart, who beheaded Sophie Scholl among many others, did things much the same way. Get it over with as quickly as possible, don't give the poor condemned any time to have to think about it. He got the process down to an average of 3 to 4 seconds. The drawback to that approach is that he executed two innocent people in cases of mistaken identity.

Wow, 7 1/2 seconds. ⚰️ One two three g’bye

that's what I call a suspended sentence !

What I don’t understand - what we’re the guards holding to on either side of the gallows?

57 germanZ apparently watched this clip

Was he in a hurry to go to the toilet?

Make it quick and get it over with

Where’s the fire?

He only regretted one.

Speerdun ?

He is like the Lewis Hamilton of the executions

If you don’t do the crime, I won’t break your spine. Simple

Great spall