(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 11 – CINZIA TANI, THE LAST EXECUTOR – STORY OF A REPENTED PUBLIC JUSTICE (VALLECCHI, PP 312, EURO 16.00) It is the repentant public executioner Albert Pierrepoint, who in 25 years has hanged about 500 people, the character of which Cinzia Tani shows us strength and fragility in her new book ‘The Last Executioner’, published by Vallecchi, with Sergio D’Elia’s afterword of Hands Off Caino. A story that leads us to ask who is really an executioner? What are his childhood, friendships, loves, ambitions, conflicts, beliefs? “My name is Albert Pierrepoint and I was an executioner. I quit my job because I no longer believe in capital punishment” are the words with which the book opens. Albert is 11 years old when he accidentally discovers what his father and uncle’s secret work is and as he grows up he decides to follow the family tradition.
Become Britain’s most famous public executioner, called for executions in other countries of the world as well. But in 1956 his convictions waver. It happens when he has to execute Ruth Ellis who, after a troubled love affair with the car racer David Blakely, kills him out of jealousy. For the first time Pierrepoint does not find a cheering crowd waiting for him outside the prison, but angry people who want to lynch him. The executioner decides to quit his job, no longer believes in capital punishment and begins to fight it.
“I believe that none of the hundreds of executions I have ever carried out have ever acted as a deterrent to a crime. Capital punishment, in my opinion, does not solve anything, it only satisfies a primitive desire for revenge,” says Pierrepoint. In the book, Tani, journalist and writer, author and radio and television presenter, nominated in 2004 by President Ciampi Cavaliere della Repubblica for cultural merits, tells the life of Pierrepoint interspersed with the most important crime reports of the time in which he was the last person to look condemned in the eye. (HANDLE).
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