• James Berry (8 February 1852 – 21 October 1913) was an English executioner from 1884 until 1891. Berry was born in Heckmondwike in the West Riding of Yorkshire...
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  • designer James Berry (barrister) (born 1983), British politician James Berry (executioner) (1852–1913), English executioner, 1884–1891 James Berry (footballer)...
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  • Civil War James Berry (executioner) (1852–1913), English executioner, 1884–1891 James Berry (surgeon) (1860–1946), British surgeon Jim Berry, president...
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  • Pedrick Robert South Jude the Apostle George Plimpton Law and Order James Berry (executioner) Joseph Samuel Playing the Game Thomas Birch Maurice Flitcroft...
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    European countries, far from being shunned, British executioners such as William Marwood, James Berry, Albert Pierrepoint, and Harry Allen were widely known...
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    his wife and four children. In 1891, Billington succeeded James Berry as chief executioner of Great Britain and Ireland. The 1896 execution of Charles...
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    the executioner, James Berry, beforehand. The medical officer refused to take any further part in the proceedings, and they were stopped. Berry provides...
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  • have acted as official executioners. In 1870 the Republic of France abolished all local executioners and named the executioner of Algiers, Antoine Rasseneux...
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  • Simon Armitage – poet, novelist and playwright, born in Marsden James Berryexecutioner who hanged 131 people, born in Heckmondwike Tracy Brabin – television...
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  • Albert Pierrepoint (category English executioners)
    in his autobiography, many years ago, that like the Victorian executioner James Berry before him, he had turned against capital punishment and now believed...
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    William Marwood (category English executioners)
    William Marwood influenced James Berry, a retired police officer and friend, to take up the role of hangman. During his time Berry improved upon William Marwood's...
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    (executioner: James Berry) First private hanging, out of public view inside the prison walls Thomas Allen, 10 April 1889 (executioner: James Berry, and...
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  • execution arrived, his hair had turned white. The executioner was James Berry. The execution was not one of Berry's more successful jobs because of a problem...
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  • trapdoors while James Berry prepared her for execution. Two male wardens then took the place of the female wardens. On a signal from the executioner they quickly...
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  • Thomas Henry Scott (category English executioners)
    the Home Office list of approved executioners from 1892 to 1895. Scott was an assistant executioner for James Berry as early as 1889. Starting in January...
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    Mark Berry (born 18 April 1964), better known as Bez, is an English percussionist, dancer, DJ and media personality. He is best known as a member of the...
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  • ISBN 978-0-8263-4379-6. OCLC 165082675. Berry, James (1892). Ward, H. Snowden (ed.). My Experiences as an Executioner (PDF). London: Percy Lund & Co. pp. 32–33...
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    shared his interest in the genre, including musicians Ernie C, D-Roc the Executioner, Beatmaster V, and Mooseman. Ice-T began a solo career as a rapper, and...
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    between the Ripper's crimes and Bury's led the press, as well as executioner James Berry, to suggest that Bury was the Ripper. Bury protested his innocence...
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    Yorkshire including Leeds, Bradford, Huddersfield and Wakefield. James Berry (1852–1913), executioner Horace Brearley (1913–2007), cricketer and schoolmaster Jeff...
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  • February 2000. Retrieved 11 August 2009. Berry, James (1892). Ward, H. Snowden (ed.). My Experiences as an Executioner. London, UK: Percy Lund & Co. pp. 74–76...
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  • "1868–1899 Private Executions". Capital Punishment UK. Berry, James (1892). My Experiences as an Executioner. London: Percy Lund & Co. p. 90. Catalyst: Jack...
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  • damaging effects on children is as pertinent as ever." However, Lorraine Berry of The Boston Globe criticizes the novel as poverty porn, arguing that,...
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    sportsman. He was eccentric enough to bribe hangman James Berry into accepting him as assistant executioner on the occasion of a triple hanging in Carlisle...
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    21, 2015). "The Bastard Executioner Recap: Agnus Dei". Vulture. Kolbtitle, Leigh (November 4, 2015). "The Bastard Executioner Recap: Templar Traps". Vulture...
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    moments, The judges, jury, and executioners lifted the rope to avenge the dead woman, but the rope broke and threw James roughly to the ground. As he stood...
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  • with the Villainess (2023), Whisper Me a Love Song (2024–present), The Executioner and Her Way of Life (2022), Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury...
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    the murder of PC Thomas Barratt at Breedon-on-the-Hill by the executioner William Berry. On 11 February 1887, Thomas Bloxham (62), was hanged for the...
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    buried in the Sing Sing Prison Cemetery. Fish is said to have helped the executioner position the electrodes on his body. His last words were reportedly,...
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    making a full confession to his wife's homicide. Nevertheless, the executioner, James Berry, promoted the idea that Bury was the Ripper. This hypothesis was...
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