Pierrepoint, Executions, and Capital Punishment -Mufti Abu Layth

in light of this I was saying that I once watched this documentary about this can sound really weird but it was about it was about executions and it was about this in the UK the execution system they had and the last executioner as in the last at the man that would hang his name was Pierpoint and the whole movie made about him by the way but I watched these things about him a few years back I don't know why I ended up I have this thing you see like when I read something I want to know more about it and more

about him that makes thing I know I've I've read up and I've watched so many things on it it's like all this information and don't know what to do with it but anyway at that time I ended up reading all these things in it and it was just he left me kind of disturbed for a month for a while at least and but it was about executions before they were abolished within the UK and they were speaking about how they would operationalize them and Albert Pierrepoint I think his name was always the Alfred people but Pierrepoint was his name and he they were speaking that

he had a record that from the moment he walked in through the door to the execution as in done he had a record I think an average of I think his fastest was like nine seconds and I think his average was anything between 11 to 13 seconds he would do it but it was you see what was really shocking was that when they would they would have these cells that they call the cells the condemned cells that they would put these people in and then it would be like three weeks later but that three

weeks of just knowing you see that is probably to me I'm imagining worse than the actual because that's just an anticipation of something that you don't want to be anticipating so it's right so I think these yes or these kind of things but yeah and it was really intriguing actually the way the British were doing at that time that they had you see the prisoner who they call the condemned he didn't actually know that

the execution chamber was actually linked to his cell so what would happen is when they would bring him in they would take his coat off and everything and bring him across these kind of like the wing and then put him in this cell so the cell would have two doors and he would get certain guests come from the other door and that's like presumably the way out and then this was the way to the wing so he didn't know like he would have assumed that this would perhaps from the wing would be where the execution would take place so when they turned up on the day he would think okay

now I'm gonna walk out I'm gonna probably go down the wing it's probably like basically he's in his mind he's probably thinking yeah it's gonna take about five minutes to get to this place wherever is so as soon as they open the door and walk in it was a common reaction for people to just they would just have a kind of like almost like a stage fright like they would just get up and just be in a state of almost shock so what they would do is they would just walk in turn the person around and he's just compliant because he's in a state of shock they were just kind of tie his hands bring his hand but whilst they're doing that they would just walk one of the

guards would move the cupboard right so as he's getting up they turning him around a guy moves the cupboard and they're just taking steps now he doesn't even know that behind the cupboard is a door it's a doorway to the execution chamber so he would just be taking steps with the guard and it's only something like seven steps so he remember the whole thing is a shock he's probably thinking well whoa there was a door here and he's taking the steps they just put the bag on his head the news and pull the and it was done like glad hell like oh

my god oh that's like no and then they were like oh there's a science to it they used to put the knot on this side so you'd kind of crack the bloody you know oh my god I was disturbed after now you realize why I'm messed up but I remember watching it I was very disturbed white but the the whole thing was very at the same time weirdly intriguing but yeah right let's take some other questions people what's going on what's going on the last hung woman was Ruth Ellis right

yes yes Ruth if I'm correct didn't he I believe he's the one who hunger i and she was the one who killed her husband because he was abusive or if that's the correct case if I remember he was abusive to her and she was very they were saying enough in the interview about that she was very brave and even right up until the very end but it is tragic you see I'm against all kind of capital punishments I just feel that these things are it's just not the way I feel that human beings we are above that

you understand but that's my way of of thinking