There was a quaint British convention under which executions were stopped and sentence commuted to life imprisonment if scheduled to take place on the day the sovereign died. Alfred Moore was doubly unfortunate: he was on the scaffold an hour before the death of King George VI was announced, protesting his innocence to the end.
ISBN:
9781909976139
GTIN:
9781909976139
Author
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Morris, Jim |
Pub Date
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25/03/2015 |
Binding
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Paperback / softback |
Pages
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244 |
Availability:
Out of Stock