Harry Allen (1911-1992) was one of Britain's last executioners, officiating between 1941 and 1964 when he was the chief executioner at 29 executions and assisted at 40 others. He also worked in Cyprus on several occasions.
Following the resignation of Albert Pierrepoint in 1956, Allen and Steve Wade jointly became Chief Executioners, but the Homicide Act of 1957 reduced the number of condemned criminals by some 75%, from an average of 15 a year in the early 1950s to 4 a year in the late 1950s. Allen's most controversial case was that of James Hanratty, hanged on 4 April1962 at Bedford Prison for the A6 murder case, although efforts to clear Hanratty's name continued until 2001 when DNA testing matched Hanratty to the crime scene.
HarryAllen (1911-1992) was one of Britain's last executioners, officiating between 1941 and 1964 when he was the chief executioner at 29 executions and assisted at 40 others.
Following the resignation of Albert Pierrepoint in 1956, Allen and Steve Wade jointly became Chief Executioners, but the Homicide Act of 1957 reduced the number of condemned criminals by some 75%, from an average of 15 a year in the early 1950s to 4 a year in the late 1950s.
Allen's most controversial case was that of James Hanratty, hanged on 4 April1962 at Bedford Prison for the A6 murder case, although efforts to clear Hanratty's name continued until 2001 when DNA testing matched Hanratty to the crime scene.
Allen was able to retain the intimacy many guests associate with these evenings, as the audience toured with him through recent and favorite projects and quizzed him on the ins and outs of the business end of running your own design firm.
HarryAllen (award-winning leader of HarryAllen and Associates) led the crowd through a series of high quality photographs to introduce his cadre of work.
Allen's preference is the first kind: a client that can give you realistic expectations and constraints within which to work, while the second's open door policy can create some amount of wasted time, as extra conceptual and ideation choices must be introduced, just to find out what they don't want.
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