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The Official Table of Drops, formerly issued by the British Home Office, is a manual which is used to calculate the appropriate length of rope for long drop hangings . Following a series of failed hangings, including those of John Babbacombe Lee, a committee chaired by Henry Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare was formed in 1886 to discover and report on ...
Albert Pierrepoint ( / ˈpɪərpɔɪnt / PEER-point; 30 March 1905 – 10 July 1992) was an English hangman who executed between 435 and 600 people in a 25-year career that ended in 1956. His father Henry and uncle Thomas were official hangmen before him. Pierrepoint was born in Clayton in the West Riding of Yorkshire.
Table of drops. The official table of drops was originally brought about by experimentation by William Marwood following his reading of a theory developed by two Irish doctors (names not known by me). It was first intended to produce a striking force of 1260 foot/lbs and arrived by: 1,260 foot lbs/weight of prisoner (lbs) = length of drop (feet ...
Snowdrops is a novel by A. D. Miller which was shortlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. [1] It was also shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger, [2] the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, [3] the James Tait Black Memorial Prize [4] and the Galaxy National Book Awards. [5] It was the first novel to be nominated for both the Booker and the Gold Dagger.
F2546 .G747 2009. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is a non-fiction book by American author David Grann. Published in 2009, the book recounts the activities of the British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon rainforest while looking for the ancient "Lost City of Z". In the book ...
The Tablet of Destinies is an important device in the Babylonian epic Enuma Elish, [4] in which Tiamat bestows this tablet on Qingu (previously written as Kingu) when she takes him as her consort and gives him command of her army. The tablet is seized by the god Marduk after his defeat of Qingu. The Tablet of Destinies is referenced in Text B ...
William Frederick Horry, the first person to be hanged by William Marwood [4] and the first person to be hanged using the "long drop" method; executed at Lincoln Castle, Lincolnshire on 1 April 1872. Henry Wainwright , a brushmaker who murdered his mistress Harriet Lane in September 1874 and buried her body in a warehouse he owned.
James Berry (8 February 1852 – 21 October 1913) was an English executioner from 1884 until 1891. Berry was born in Heckmondwike in the West Riding of Yorkshire, where his father worked as a wool-stapler. His most important contribution to the science of hanging was his refinement of the long drop method developed by William Marwood, whom ...