Таинство лишения жизни
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((Когда грешный дух покидает невинное тело, последнее достойно заботы и уважения.
Вот так, по замыслу творцов фильма, должны обстоять дела.))
"Последний палач" The Last Hangman
((Когда грешный дух покидает невинное тело, последнее достойно заботы и уважения.
Вот так, по замыслу творцов фильма, должны обстоять дела.))
"Последний палач" The Last Hangman
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Date: 2021-02-16 05:34 am (UTC)"А вот дальше в фильме последовал, очевидно, самый сильный момент, по мнению Адриана Шергольда - создателя фильма, а на мой взгляд самый слабый и предсказуемый. Казнь мягкотелого и эмоционального приятеля, которого достоверно сыграл Эдди Марсан, вынуждает таки палача заглянуть в глаза осужденному на смерть, увидеть в нем человека близкого и несчастного
"Альберту Пьерпойнту понадобилось повесить более 600 человек для того чтобы осознать, что казнь на самом деле не искупает ничьих грехов.
'Он серьезно относился к своим обязанностям и внёс много улучшений в дело препровождения человека на тот свет. Альберт считал, что самый страшный и унизительный момент для осужденного - это путь к месту казни, и старался сократить это время до минимума. Альберт Пьеррпойнт снискал себе репутацию самого быстрого палача в мире. Всю процедуру казни, начиная от шествия от камеры смертника до находящегося в соседнем помещении эшафота, связывание ног, набрасывание на голову белого капюшона и вплоть до нажатия рычага, открывающего люк, Альберт проводил в рекордные сроки - от 9 до 12 секунд'.
а когда казнят Рут Эллис народ и вовсе взрывается. Я сперва подумала, что это что то вроде нациста двойного агента или ещё какой враг государства, но, погуглив, оказалось, что это просто женщина, убившая своего любовника.
Ruth Ellis
Date: 2021-02-16 05:41 am (UTC)In 1944, 17-year-old Ruth became pregnant by a married Canadian soldier named Clare and gave birth to a son, whom she named Clare Andria Neilson,[1] known as "Andy".[2]
Ruth became a nightclub hostess in Hampstead through nude modelling work, which paid significantly more than the various factory and clerical jobs she had held since leaving school. Morris Conley, her manager at the Court Club in Duke Street, blackmailed his hostess employees into sleeping with him. By early 1950 Ruth was making money as a prostitute and became pregnant by one of her regular clients.[3] She had this pregnancy terminated (illegally) in the third month and returned to work as soon as she could.
On 8 November 1950, Ruth married 41-year-old George Johnston Ellis, a divorced dentist with two sons, at the register office in Tonbridge, Kent.[4] He had been a customer at the Court Club. George was a violent alcoholic, jealous and possessive, and the marriage deteriorated rapidly because he was convinced his new wife was having an affair. Ruth left him several times but always returned.
In 1951, while four months pregnant, Ruth appeared, uncredited, as a beauty queen in the Rank film Lady Godiva Rides Again.[5] She subsequently gave birth to a daughter, Georgina, but George refused to acknowledge paternity and they separated shortly afterwards and were later divorced. Ruth and her son moved in with her parents and she went back to prostitution to make ends meet.[3]
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Date: 2021-02-16 05:45 am (UTC)In 1953, Ruth Ellis became the manager of the Little Club, a nightclub in Knightsbridge. At this time, she was lavished with expensive gifts by admirers and had a number of celebrity friends.[3] Ellis met David Blakely, three years her junior, through racing driver Mike Hawthorn. Blakely was a former public school boy who was educated at Shrewsbury and Sandhurst, but also a hard-drinking racer. Within weeks he moved into Ellis's flat above the club despite being engaged to another woman, Mary Dawson. Ellis became pregnant for the fourth time but had an abortion, feeling she could not reciprocate the level of commitment shown by Blakely towards their relationship.[6]
Ellis then began seeing Desmond Cussen, a former Royal Air Force pilot who had flown Lancaster bombers during the Second World War, and had taken up accountancy after leaving the service. He was appointed a director of the family business Cussen & Co., a wholesale and retail tobacconist with outlets in London and South Wales. Ellis eventually moved in with Cussen at 20 Goodward Court, Devonshire Street, north of Oxford Street. The relationship with Blakely continued, however, and became increasingly violent as he and Ellis continued to see other people.[6] Blakely offered to marry Ellis, to which she consented, but in January 1955 she had another miscarriage after he punched her in the stomach during an argument.[6]
The Magdala pub in 2008. Two "bullet holes" in the wall at lower left were drilled by the pub's landlady in the 1990s.[7]
On Easter Sunday, 10 April 1955,[8] Ellis took a taxi from Cussen's home to a second floor flat at 29 Tanza Road, Hampstead, the home of Anthony and Carole Findlater, where she suspected Blakely might be. As she arrived, Blakely's car drove off, so she paid off the taxi and walked the 1⁄4 mile (0.40 km) to the Magdala,[9] a relatively large public house in South Hill Park where she found Blakely's car parked outside.
At around 9:30 pm Blakely and his friend Clive Gunnell emerged. Blakely passed Ellis waiting on the pavement when she stepped out of Henshaws Doorway, a newsagent next to the Magdala. As Blakely searched for the keys to his car,[10] Ellis took a .38 calibre Smith & Wesson Victory Model revolver from her handbag and fired five shots at Blakely. The first shot missed and he started to run, pursued by Ellis round the car, where she fired a second, which caused him to collapse onto the pavement. Ellis then stood over him and fired three more bullets into him. One bullet was fired less than half an inch from Blakely's back and left powder burns on his skin.
Dame Juliet Anne Virginia Stevenson
Date: 2021-02-16 08:00 am (UTC)no subject
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