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Albert Pierrepoint maintained his pocket book during his 25-year career as the execution of up to 400 convicted murderers, trespassers, and Nazi war criminals. He produced meticulous records of every unfortunate individual who died as a result of his noose, including Nazi collaborator William Joyce and serial murderers John Christie and John Haigh, who were known as the 'Acid Bath Murderer'. Ruth Ellis, who was the last woman to be executed in the United Kingdom, was another notable figure in the book. In July 1955, she was hanged in Holloway Prison. He described their name, age, height, measurement, date, and place of execution, as well as other characteristics of their neck style, which were either 'good, strong, or thin.'

Antonio Mancini, 39, was about to pay the price for stabbing to death a gangster who had started a brawl in his Soho nightclub while standing on the gallows at London's Pentonville Prison, with his arms pinioned behind his back and a noose around his neck. The trapdoors under his feet would crack open within seconds, causing him to crash to death. But, on that chilly Friday morning in October 1941, he had remarkably relaxed as his ankles were tied together and the customary white hood was woven over his head. He smiled as if leaving a party.'Cheerio,' he said jokingly as if leaving a party. That was the last thing Mancini ever said, but even though his composure was impressive, it was more than matched by the man about to kill him, 36-year-old Albert Pierrepoint.