Crime s Strangest Cases: Extraordinary But True Tales from Over Five Centuries of Legal History
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Convinced that God would save him, John Lee was calm in the face of the executioner at Exeter Prison in 1885. His confidence proved well founded when three times the hangman s trapdoor failed to open, resulting in his reprieve. This collection of crime and punishment oddities ranges from a 13th-century trial by battle to a phantom villain at Derby Magistrates Court in 2001.
Convinced that God would save him, John Lee was calm in the face of the executioner at Exeter Prison in 1885. His confidence proved well founded when three times the hangman s trapdoor failed to open, resulting in his reprieve. This collection of crime and punishment oddities ranges from a 13th-century trial by battle to a phantom villain at Derby Magistrates Court in 2001.