Defending the Truth

Timothy Evans
Derek Bentley
Stephen Downing
Andrew Evans
Judith Ward
Birmingham Six
Guildford Four
Maguire Seven
Stefan Kiszko
Bridgewater Four
Cardiff Three,
Peter Fell,
Sally Clark
Donna Anthony,
Gurnos Three, also known as the Merthyr Tydfil Arson Case
Michelle and Lisa Taylor,
Paul Blackburn
The Cardiff Newsagent Three,
Andrew Adams,
Arthur Allan Thomas
Robert Baltovich
James Driskell
Donald Marshall
David Milgaard
Guy Paul Morin
Thomas Sophonow
Ronald Dalton
Jon Kingsbury


But of course, this could never happen in America.

The Cardiff Newsagent Three

Who?

Big Silence there George to a point well made. Tell you what, why not post up the amount of comparitive Gun crime mortality in countries with gun laws, see if there's just as big a silence?

I guess I don't get it, are these people who were put to death in prison?

Many of us here are anti-death penalty.

We have a long history of miscarriages of justice, some of which have ended in execution, others that have (recently) been so wrong, it has undermined the whole concept of "justice".
Having said that, it would be wrong to portray us Brits as unanimous about the issue. There are many who protest pretty vociferously about the reinstatement of the death penalty.
I think that it's easy for some of us Brits, therefore, to take the high moral ground on this (Over the US)

I don't get it either, Tad.

No, all of them were not executed, but they were wrongly (allegedly) convicted....in that they were released years later on technicalities.
Had the Death sentence been in force, then they would have been hung and it would all have been too late..

He has missed out Hanratty, who WAS hung......and the evidence against him was very shoddy, although the police keep trotting out proof....but there is lots of proof that he was never anywhere near the crime scene, which was not made available at his trial.


Derek Bentley, who had a mental age of 11 and suffered from epilepsy was hung...and he did not kill anyone, but his friend, Craig, who DID do the shooting was under 18 at the time (he was 16) , and so could not receive the Death sentence.He served 10 years in prison instead.

Yes, there have been many bad things, and I certainly do not agree with the Death Sentence anyway.

The hanging of Timothy Evans was the trigger for the repeal of the Death sentence law. He was another mentally deficient, and it was his Landlord, the infamous Christie who had done the murder.

The hanging of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hung, also caused public outrage.

I dont think this has to do solely with muder victims...anyone read the last name on the list????

I long ago gave up trying to suss out how George's mind works.......

You'll have to enlighten me.