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The Best Executioner in the World
The Age | Submitted by: Alex Portnoy
[Mr Singh] insisted that no one else in Singapore was trained to carry out the execution, and that an inexperienced hangman could make mistakes. "With me, (the prisoners) don't struggle," he said. If (the executioner is) a raw guy, they will struggle like chickens, like fish out of the water."
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From: marginallawyer [Just Kick My Ass Off This Planet]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 07:40
That looks like a Rolex watch on the executioner's wrist. Did the article say he lived in public housing? A perk of the job? What a fiasco. Definitely Americana being exported.
From: ciaochowbella [I didn't do it and I wasn't there when it happened]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 07:43
Trust Singapore to make America look civilized.....
From: parasite6163 [peter fine]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 08:45
Now, if you line up pedophiles and rapist, I would like to apply for the job. I'll even hang the fuckers in my spare time for free. no guilt. I'll supply the rope or if u ask me, i think we should slowly cut there heads off just for the agony of if. Imagine, your son or daughter raped by a scumbag and you get to watch him slowly die like the soul of the child he psychologically killed. pain before hell. that would be my advertizing gimmick "PAIN BEFORE HELL".
From: thumsum
[Giv' em some thumb]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 08:54
There were two gallows men who worked in Britain until executions were banned. One a tea total man who worked with extreme pride and humanity. The other a drunk who often had to add his weight to the legs of the condemned to try to break their neck. Several times he calculated the drop wrong and took the heads off. It was pot luck who you ended up with.
From: virageblue [Bluevirage]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 09:04
"Pain before hell". Yea that sounds like a winning advertisement for brutality against someone one hates. Ever notice how when we hate someone it supposedly excuses how we treat them no matter what they did in our minds?
From: patmccock
[patmccock]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 09:29
Good help is hard to find! At least the guy is a competent employee who cares about quality and his "clients" comfort. We all know how customer service has declined.  If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.
From: robwrigley
Date: 3-Dec-2005 09:31
I've said it before: If you are so opposed to cruelty and violence, how the hell do you read this website? It is basically a collection of nasty news items, made funny only by the fact that it didn't happen to you. Or did you think this was Amnesty.com? Rob
From: azdollarbill [Jim Jones]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 10:58
I wonder if Nguyen experienced an erotic happening? I guess only his hang man knows for sure, & he ain't talkin'.
From: azdollarbill [Jim Jones]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 11:43
His twin huh? So we have the epitome of the "Evil Twins". The H was worth several million dollars. How much does his brother owe? I think that it was the amount, & the worth that sent him to the nice visit with Mr. Singh.
From: wulfgartheblack [Wulfgar the Black]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 12:48
Practice makes perfect.
From: blissfulgirl
[~^-^~]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 12:51
Tonight on Access Hollywood...celebrity executioners! Everyone gets their 15 minutes of fame. It's kind of sweet that he believes in re-incarnation...makes it easier for him to sleep at night I'm sure, but I wonder what makes him so sure that they come back as better people. Maybe they come back really pissed off at the guy who hung them.
From: wulfgartheblack [Wulfgar the Black]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 12:54
Even if they come back pissed off WTF - he's 74. By the time they can act on him , he's run the cycle too.
From: rocco
[I'm the funny man!]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 13:27
Mr Downer yesterday launched a furious attack on Mr Singh. "I don't think the executioner is qualified to give useful advice," he said. "I think he seems to have found great appeal in making a spectacle of himself in the media. And I tell you that's completely inappropriate … (and) I don't want to hear from him again." WAAAAHHH! - - - WAAAAAAAAAAHHH!! "Downer" is certainly an appropriate name for this whiny asshole.
From: inhalien [Chevy Chase]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 14:00
Making yer dad proud, boy!! I bet the family is thrilled.
From: hunkahunka [burnin'love]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 15:16
Someone mentioned the "nice" English hangman...his name is Ellis, I've read his memoirs and the job screwed him up good... he ended up killing himself... some info for you ... John Ellis of Rochdale Lancashire 1874 - 1932. Period in office - 1901 - 1923. John Ellis was a notably mild mannered man who ultimately committed suicide possibly through the stresses incurred by his job as hangman and possibly through the effects of the slump on his business as a barber. He had a particular dislike of hanging women for reasons that will become apparent. He executed several famous criminals, notably: Herbert Rowse Armstrong who he hanged on the 31st of May 1922 at Gloucester prison for the murder, by arsenic poisoning, of his wife. There is some doubt now over Armstrong's guilt and new evidence has been unearthed by another, present day solicitor, who acquired Armstrong's practice in Hay on Wye and works in his old office and even bought his house. Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen is perhaps the most famous criminal to come Ellis's way. He was hanged on the 23rd of November 1910 at Pentonville prison for the murder of his wife, Cora Crippen. Crippen was the first person to be caught by the use of the new wireless telegraph system allowing him to be arrested aboard the S. S. Montrose on which he had sailed to Quebec in Canada with his lover Ethel Le Neve. At the time it was seen as the "Crime of the Century" and has held a fascination for many ever since. George Smith was the famous "Brides in the Bath" murderer whom Ellis hanged on the 13th of August 1915 at Maidstone prison. Smith had married and then drowned Alice Burnham, Beatrice Constance, Annie Mundy and Margaret Elizabeth Lofty for financial gain, via their life insurance policies and wills. Sir Roger Casement was unusual in that he had been convicted of treason, having tried to get the Germans to send arms and equipment to Ireland to start the 1916 Easter Uprising. He was hanged at Pentonville on the 3rd of August 1916. In 1923 Ellis had the worst job of his career when he and Robert Baxter hanged Edith Jessie Thompson aged 28 on the 9th of January at Holloway for her part in the murder of her husband Percy who was stabbed to death by Frederick Bywaters*. (see below). She had to be carried to the gallows and it was reported that her underwear was covered in blood after the hanging. After this all other women were made to wear canvas underpants. This pair also hanged Susan Newell at Duke Street prison Glasgow on the 10th of October 1923. 30 year old Newell had strangled newspaper boy, John Johnston, who would not give her an evening paper without the money. She was the first woman to hang in Scotland for over fifty years and on the gallows refused the traditional white hood. John Ellis carried out his final execution on the 28th of December 1923, when he hanged John Eastwood at Armley prison in Leeds, for the murder of his wife. In March of 1924 he tended his resignation due to poor health, having executed a total of 203 people. Before his suicide on September 20th 1932, Ellis wrote his memoirs "Diary of a Hangman" which has been recently reprinted. * note she didn't actually kill anyone and they hung (hanged?) her anyway... Certainly not a job i'd ever take up...
From: antinomianist
[AERDNA]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 16:05
hunkahunka [burnin'love] That's freaky - John Ellis is the name of a character in a novel I'm writing on right now! I think I'm going to throw that in - thanks!
From: dunxy [Duncan]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 16:25
"You are talking about the life of one drug trafficker. But what about the thousands who suffer because of the drugs … their lives are ruined.".... Whatever dipshit, its sad that he really thinks stopping 1 import of herion into any country is going to make any differance at all, the smack heads want to take smack, they will just get it from somewere else.
From: backuptheholler [Junebug James]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 16:36
Whether I were having my hair done, heart surgery, or executed, I'd much prefer a professional who takes pride in their work myself.
From: hawk3 [tritium]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 17:26
So did Ellis suicide by hanging? It is a poor workman who blames his tools.
From: bongwater [bongwater]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 20:40
Ah, yes, the hood comes off. I prefer my hangmen anonymous, but in these times, everybody's prima donna.
From: gunlover [Doug]
Date: 3-Dec-2005 20:59
Aerdna, do you have room for a handsome s.o.b. with a great smile, sense of humor, great lover? Maybe called Doug? No dang jokes about it being fiction either from all you smart asses!
From: spacedcadet5555 [dick]
Date: 4-Dec-2005 02:21
let them suffer. squirm, struggle like chickens. better TV for the rest of us. put it on the tube. let the people see
From: deathbox [Pinky]
Date: 4-Dec-2005 03:53
Whats yer problem people??? At last a professional. If you do it right hanging could be the most humane way to go. And i mean it. If this man, just half as good as he saz, the prisoners should be thankfull. there are much nastier ways to end up dead, by the laws of Singapore. And in some other aspects, the US is very barbarian compared to them.
From: ikthool [ikthool]
Date: 4-Dec-2005 05:54
Why can't american public servants have this kind of a wor ethic?We should import this guy,and make him head of the DMV (bonus-he beleives in reincarnation,no more irritating seat belt laws).
From: antinomianist
[AERDNA]
Date: 4-Dec-2005 07:24
From: gunlover [Doug] Date: 3-Dec-2005 20:59 Aerdna, do you have room for a handsome s.o.b. with a great smile, sense of humor, great lover? Maybe called Doug? No dang jokes about it being fiction either from all you smart asses! ------ If the great lover part is true, hop on!
From: tammy [Live Life Live]
Date: 4-Dec-2005 08:19
It is just amazing how many British public hangmen are from the Northern section of England covered Lancashire or Yorkshire. John Ellis, James Berry, Robert Calthrop, Albert Peirrepoint(probably all spelled wrong) who came from a family of hangmen (I swear, his Dad and brother Tom were both Home Office appointed hangmen). Albert Peirrepoint used to be landlord of a pub nearby where I live now, and my Dad used to go and drink in it. The name? 'Help The Poor Struggler'.
From: gunlover [Doug]
Date: 4-Dec-2005 13:43
Aerdna, really have you had anything published? I suppose you can't be specific I like history best am reading Psuedo Muranda now, about a c.i.a. field officer working drug inderection in the 80's supposedly a biography. If true I would not want to be A.Q. Tough, smart and resorcefull to say the least. Good luck on your book- if I'm in it it's a best seller for sure!
From: antinomianist
[AERDNA]
Date: 4-Dec-2005 18:07
Sorry gunlover, I just couldn't resist the inuendo. I don't WRITE books I write ON books, fiction and literary criticism mostly - I do part time professional reviewing and reading (post-editing work). I have been published though and I'm currently working on another degree...and that's all the details anyone will get.
From: antinomianist
[AERDNA]
Date: 4-Dec-2005 19:06
conspiracy[theory] I found this applies to most states but I couldn't find anything on Singapore: "The three executioners are staff members selected by the warden of the Central Prison. They are not given a psychological evaluation unless an evaluation is requested. They remain a part of the execution team until replaced. The execution team consists of the warden, deputy warden, the three executioners, the trained medical team (three individuals), the chaplain, the escort team (four individuals), and the security coordinator. The team members, including the executioners, are not compensated beyond their regular salary. Service on the execution team is voluntary, except for the warden and deputy warden. The warden selects the execution team and is in charge of the team."
From: brightwood
[Bright]
Date: 7-Dec-2005 23:19
Yesiree folks: The governments of Singapore, as well as many of the States in the USA hire serial killers to work for them!!!!!
Updated: 9-Dec-2005 10:25
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