Thomas was the longest serving of the Pierrepoint executioners and in over forty years carried out around 300 hangings. He was responsible for hanging such notorious criminals as Louie Calvert, Frederick Seddon and Charlotte Bryant.

He retired in 1946 by which time he was in his mid-seventies. He encouraged his nephew, Albert, to assist him when it became obvious of Albert's vocational ambitions.

Thomas Pierrepoint died in 1954 just ten years before the last hanging took place in the United Kingdom.

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