Edith Thompson's lover stabbed her husband to death in January 1923. He was hanged.
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It is a popular tale amongst abolitionists that Edith was innocent. Her hanging was 'a miscarriage of justice'. 'She hadn't given huge support to her lover.'
Read the facts of the trial - not the Guardian and the gutter press.
You would have to admit that, had you been a juror, you would have had no other option than to have found this calculating woman guilty.
This was the first real attempt by abolitionists to pretend that a guilty person was actually innocent in order to discredit the death penalty. Four more significant attempts were made in the UK. All deeply flawed.
