• Albert Pierrepoint: War criminals and a misfit.

  • Jan 14 2024
  • Length: 37 mins
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Albert Pierrepoint: War criminals and a misfit.

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  • In today’s episode I delve into the part Albert Pierrepoint played after the war crime tribunals which occured at the close of the Second World War, and the 1948 execution of a transgender man, whose identity and sexuality may have contributed to them not having their sentence commuted to life in prison.ResourcesDaughters of Cain by Renee Huggett and Paul Berry, published by Pan books ltd.Executioner: Pierrepoint an autobiographyTorbay Express and South Devon Echo - Monday 30 August 1948 Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer - Tuesday 31 August 1948 Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 01 September 1948 Daily Mirror - Friday 24 September 1948 Manchester Evening News - Thursday 23 September 1948 Leicester Evening Mail - Wednesday 12 January 1949 https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6066/1/416825.pdf DEAD WOMAN WALKING: EXECUTED WOMEN IN ENGLAND & WALES 1900-1955 Anette Ballinger Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy September 1997 https://murderpedia.org/female.A/a/allen-margaret.htm https://www.lancs.live/news/lancashire-news/margaret-bill-allen-menopausal-man-25743029 https://www.capitalpunishmentuk.org/allen.html https://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/16165677.odd-man-bus-conductor-maggie-allen-really-commit-murder/ https://murderworld771665864.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/the-last-five-women-to-be-hanged-in-britain-no-4-margaret-bill-allen/ https://www.executedtoday.com/2018/01/12/1949-margaret-bill-allen-transgender/ https://www.rossendalefreepress.co.uk/news/new-book-places-question-marks-14519762 https://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2020/10/margaretbill-wanted-a-smoke.html Liverpool Echo - Thursday 02 September 1948 Derby Daily Telegraph - Tuesday 04 January 1949 Hull Daily Mail - Wednesday 12 January 1949 Manchester Evening News - Thursday 13 January 1949 Liverpool Echo - Saturday 18 September 1948 Western Morning News - Monday 30 August 1948 Belfast News-Letter - Tuesday 31 August 1948 Dundee Courier - Monday 30 August 1948 Yorkshire Evening Post - Tuesday 31 August 1948 Daily News (London) - Monday 30 August 1948 Derby Daily Telegraph - Wednesday 01 September 1948 Halifax Evening Courier - Saturday 18 September 1948 Daily Mirror - Thursday 02 September 1948 Belfast News-Letter - Wednesday 01 September 1948 Derby Daily Telegraph - Thursday 23 September 1948 Gloucester Citizen - Monday 30 August 1948 Aberdeen Press and Journal - Monday 30 August 1948 Halifax Evening Courier - Tuesday 31 August 1948 https://murderworld771665864.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/the-last-five-women-to-be-hanged-in-britain-no-4-margaret-bill-allen/http://www.bergenbelsen.co.uk/pages/trial/TrialContents/TrialContents.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belsen_trial
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