James Inglis
James Inglis ( 1922 - May 8, 1951 in Manchester ) was a British murderer . His execution on the gallows in Strangeways Prison (Manchester) by Albert Pierrepoint is considered the fastest hanging ever.
Inglis had confessed to strangling the prostitute Alice Morgan on February 1, 1951 in Kingston upon Hull in the course of a dispute over payment , but pleaded insanity during the trial. The jury did not believe his account of the process, and Inglis was sentenced to death on April 20 . Since he did not appeal , his execution was scheduled for three weeks after the trial ended.
On May 8, the British chief executioner Albert Pierrepoint and his assistant, Syd Dernley Inglis, took Inglis out of his cell and into the immediately adjacent execution room. Dernley later reported that Inglis almost ran to his execution, taking serious advice from a prison guard to go with it quickly and "without theater". It was only seven seconds between leaving the cell and opening the trap door.
The execution occurs in the film Pierrepoint (2006).
literature
- Dernley & Newman: The Hangman's Tale: Memoirs of a Public Executioner. Trans-Atlantic Publications, 1990, ISBN 0-330-31633-8 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Inglis, James |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British killer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1922 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1951 |
| Place of death | Manchester |