“Murder, Mystery And Execution” - Volume 8: Capital Cases From Britain and Ireland (1800-1964) - Softcover

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“Murder, Mystery And Execution” - Volume 8 - looks at another 30 [Thirty] capital cases of murder in Britain and Ireland from 1800 to the effective end of the death penalty in these islands in 1964 …. Once again the motives ranged from anger/revenge; passion & jealousy; robbery, sexual et al to those who had no motive …. But all of them had as their last sight – the rope on the gallows and the hangman and his white hood …. This time there are cases from Lancashire, Sussex, Staffordshire, London, Leeds, Liverpool et al …. as well as Scotland, Wales and Ireland …. A number of cases are lasts – the last execution of a woman in Wales (1907); the last public execution in Britain (1868); the last triple execution in Ireland under the ordinary law (1882); and the last public execution of a woman in London (1862) ….

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