New Posts For Thread: The Saudi executioner.....https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executionerWatched an interview, from "You Tube's" home page, of the one of six executioners in SA.He could have been talking about his job as a bricklayer as to him it is just a job!He was trained by his father and his own son will follow him into "the job".SoHe would have been ok on one of these quiz shows, the host introduces him as a publican'do you have any other interests?'.....'yes I hang people!'https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executioner?post_id=544067355#544067355He would have been ok on one of these quiz shows, the host introduces him as a publican'do you have any other interests?'.....'yes I hang people!'Tue, 24 Mar 2015 19:03:17 -0500His wife did not know he was public hangman when she married himShe must have been worried he was seeing other women when he kept disappearing now and againI suppose she was relived to hear he was not, 'it's all right my love, I was not cheating on yhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executioner?post_id=544067315#544067315His wife did not know he was public hangman when she married himShe must have been worried he was seeing other women when he kept disappearing now and againI suppose she was relived to hear he was not, 'it's all right my love, I was not cheating on yTue, 24 Mar 2015 18:57:17 -0500One must remember the Law killed these people, he only carried out what the Law decreedHim not doing it would not have saved anyone..somebody else would have hanged themBut I do not think many people could have done this job....would have been too hahttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executioner?post_id=544067273#544067273One must remember the Law killed these people, he only carried out what the Law decreedHim not doing it would not have saved anyone..somebody else would have hanged themBut I do not think many people could have done this job....would have been too haTue, 24 Mar 2015 18:51:53 -0500He also kept the diary which would have been an everyday reminder. Yet he also knew that the condemned would be better off in his hands than any other hangman. He was a master of his trade, apparently.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executioner?post_id=544066235#544066235He also kept the diary which would have been an everyday reminder. Yet he also knew that the condemned would be better off in his hands than any other hangman. He was a master of his trade, apparently.Tue, 24 Mar 2015 17:00:25 -0500ebulGery Is that fair MacI do not think Pierrepoint was a sadist or killer, his father and uncle were also public hangmen, he may have seen itas maintaining a family tradition or duty?That might explain him taking the position in the first place buthttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executioner?post_id=544066159#544066159ebulGery Is that fair MacI do not think Pierrepoint was a sadist or killer, his father and uncle were also public hangmen, he may have seen itas maintaining a family tradition or duty?That might explain him taking the position in the first place butTue, 24 Mar 2015 16:51:49 -0500Is that fair MacI do not think Pierrepoint was a sadist or killer, his father and uncle were also public hangmen, he may have seen itas maintaining a family tradition or duty?But yes he must have had a certain mind set to do what he did, it is not ahttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executioner?post_id=544066085#544066085Is that fair MacI do not think Pierrepoint was a sadist or killer, his father and uncle were also public hangmen, he may have seen itas maintaining a family tradition or duty?But yes he must have had a certain mind set to do what he did, it is not aTue, 24 Mar 2015 16:46:04 -0500I think one would have to be mentally unbalanced to do the job. Psychiatrists claimed after WWII that many of the Nazi concentration camp guards would probably have been sadists and killers in normal life and that the circumstances of the Third Reichhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executioner?post_id=544065273#544065273I think one would have to be mentally unbalanced to do the job. Psychiatrists claimed after WWII that many of the Nazi concentration camp guards would probably have been sadists and killers in normal life and that the circumstances of the Third ReichTue, 24 Mar 2015 15:35:50 -0500I just can't fathom out how any individual could do the job.Hundreds, jesus a normal human being I doubt could do that many.Surely after only a few you would be sickened. I just can't fathom it out.https://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executioner?post_id=544059155#544059155I just can't fathom out how any individual could do the job.Hundreds, jesus a normal human being I doubt could do that many.Surely after only a few you would be sickened. I just can't fathom it out.Tue, 24 Mar 2015 05:01:08 -0500Very good Mac.John Ellis was the executioner who did Crippen and this is interesting but disturbing regarding the execution of Edith Thompson.The ordeal of executing Edith Thompson in 1923 had a profound effect on Ellis. Thompson had collapsed in terhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executioner?post_id=544055827#544055827Very good Mac.John Ellis was the executioner who did Crippen and this is interesting but disturbing regarding the execution of Edith Thompson.The ordeal of executing Edith Thompson in 1923 had a profound effect on Ellis. Thompson had collapsed in terMon, 23 Mar 2015 18:43:43 -0500AkaHis father was also a hangman, so when Albert`s application was accepted his mother was not happy. She asked him why he wanted to do it, his reply "Aye it`s in me blood"Following his fathers footsteps, so i guess that purpose kept him cold from emhttps://community.betfair.com/chit_chat/go/thread/view/94038/30463871/the-saudi-executioner?post_id=544055731#544055731AkaHis father was also a hangman, so when Albert`s application was accepted his mother was not happy. She asked him why he wanted to do it, his reply "Aye it`s in me blood"Following his fathers footsteps, so i guess that purpose kept him cold from emMon, 23 Mar 2015 18:32:54 -0500