Thirty-Six Murders & Two Immoral Earnings

by Ludovic Kennedy (Author)

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  2002

  $3.27

  The 36 murders are those for which a number of defendants were wrongly convicted, imprisoned or executed. Of them, two are Timothy Evans and Derek Bentley - both wrongly executed by the state. 21 represent those killed in the Birmingham Six pub bombings. The 2 Immoral Earnings refers to the case of Stephen Ward of Profumo fame. In a final section Ludovic Kennedy asks what lessons are to be learned and concludes that it is the adversarial system of justice which the UK and US have, which by it nature offers an invitation to corruption.