Among the more notorious criminals that he executed:
Josef Kramer,
Irma Grese,
Ruth Ellis,
John Amery and John George Haigh, "The Acid-Bath Killer". Two men he executed - Timothy John Evans (1950), and Derek Bentley (1953) - each received posthumous pardons. It is believed that Pierrepoint executed at least 433 men and 17 women, including six U.S. soldiers, and 200 Nazi war criminals.