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Published: 4 May 2007

Stretched for cash

• YOUR reviewer describes Albert Pierrepoint as the last executioner but this is not correct (Anatomy of a gun-law culture, April 27). Pierrepoint resigned in 1956 following a disagreement with the Home Office over how much of his fee he should receive when, having been summoned to a prison to perform his office, he found on arrival that his client had been reprieved at the last minute.
The last hangings were in August, 1964.
STEPHEN HORNE
Romilly Road, N4

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