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Date: 05 April 2006 11:32:06
...Free members showing of Pierrepoint at the Picturehouse last night. Albert Pierrepoint was one of Britains last hangmen, and the film is a very bleak, but personal portrait of his life. It is interesting that he became an opponant of the death penalty, although largely kept his views to himself until his later life. Good film, but don't expect to be "entertained" by it, but it will provoke thought.
"I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a primitive desire for revenge which takes the easy way and hands over the responsibility for revenge to other people...The trouble with the death penalty has always been that nobody wanted it for everybody, but everybody differed about who should get off."