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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 27
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  4.     DIED. Albert Pierrepoint, 87, Britain's best-known hangman,
  5. who dispatched 433 men and 17 women in a 25-year career; in
  6. Southport, England. Pierrepoint, whose father and uncle were
  7. public executioners, hanged World War II traitor William Joyce,
  8. known as Lord Haw Haw, and Ruth Ellis, the last woman executed
  9. in Britain. He defended the noose as humane and quick (11 sec.
  10. when done properly), but when he retired in 1956 (soon after
  11. Ellis' hanging) he became a vigorous opponent of capital
  12. punishment.
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