1950 for the murder of his ex-mistress. Corbitt was a regular at Pierrepoint's pub Help The Poor Struggler. James Inglis, on 8 May 1951, the fastest hanging on record a total of seven seconds elapsed from the time that Inglis left the Condemned Cell. Derek Bentley, executed at Wandsworth on 28 January 1953 for his part in the death of Police Constable Sidney Miles. The execution was carried out despite pleas for clemency by large numbers of people, including 200 members of parliament, the widow of Miles, and the jury's recommendation in the trial. After a 45-year-long campaign, Bentley received a posthumous pardon in July 1998, when the Court of Appeal ruled that Bentley's conviction was "unsafe" and quashed it. An article written by Pierrepoint for The Guardian, but withheld until the pardon was granted, dispelled the myth that Bentley had cried on his way to the scaffold. To the last, he believed he would be reprieved. Michael Manning, Irish rapist and murderer, last person to be executed in the Republic of Ireland, and one of four condemned men the Irish government had hired Pierrepoint to execute after having failed to train its own hangman. Executed at Mountjoy Prison in Dublin on 20 April 1954. Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be executed in Britain, for the murder of her lover. Executed at Holloway Prison on 13 July 1955. Pierrepoint had no regrets about her execution; it was one of the few times he spoke publicly about one of his charges and he made it clear he felt she deserved no less. Louisa May Merrifield, executed at Strangeways Prison in 1953 for poisoning her elderly employer Mrs Sarah Ann Ricketts. References Sources Albert Pierrepoint