Thursday, 16 January 2014

Tutor feedback and a new idea.

After speaking to Matt it was decided that:

  • I should look at exections as whole not just at Armely
  • Find more interesting research to really get involved in.

Now Im interested. I found out a lot of disturbing yet interesting facts on the culture of hangmen, interesting stories from across history and much more I decided to go back to Matt with my new found ideas

New Plan:
  • Choose 16 facts
  • Illustration them how I perceive them
  • Look past the facts and what they could mean
  • Look at the human condition and not just trying to make this look 'cool'

EDIT

Here my page of the most interesting facts i've found and here's my list of the 16 best/best illustration potential :
  • An executioner was entitled to the condemned clothes and anything in their pockets.
  • Wealthier benefactors tended to tip their hangmen
  • Henry Pierrepoint was sacked from being drunk on the job
  • Albert Pierrepoint executed over 450 people in his career 
  • Joseph Myers tried to avoid hanging by slitting his throat, he was saved by the prison surgeon; then hung.
  • Henry Allen, Britain's last hangman liked to be dressed for the occasion, bow-tie and all
  • Hangmen kept a bottle of whiskey to calm the nerve of the condemned 
  • In the Ottoman Empire executioners were seen as dammed, and had separate/unmarked graves from the public.
  • Henry Kirk was turned down as a hangman for having a 'morbid obsession with the profession'
  • Albert Pierrepoint saw graves being dug for nazi criminals he was about to hang and saw it as 'unseemly'
  • If the drop of the rope was too long it could take a prisoners head off
  • Albert Pierrepoint retired at 72 after he accidentally almost hung his assistant
  • James Berry, convinced he killed innocent men gave up being an executioner and turned to serve god
  • Most headsman executioners were close knit members of the community but had to keep their identity secret
  • Headsman' and Hangmen had to beware after the execution from attack from the criminals friends and family
  • Henry Pierrepoint liked to keep notes on the condition of the criminals necks


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