Two barristers and a judge revisit old cases where the accused were convicted and sentenced to death. Not only do we get to hear the details of each case and the possibility that evidence was flawed or insufficient but we learn about the social mores of the time, how even one unfortunate woman was not even given legal representation and was hung possibly as a result of that. Many of the accused, not all, were very poor, uneducated, and could not afford to hire good legal counsel. Women who were victims of prolonged domestic abuse, who had no way out except to kill their tormentor, unsubstantiated police 'verbals' that judges directed juries to take as gospel, it's all quite horrific, so very sad, one hopes that things have greatly improved since then.
Review of Murder, Mystery and My Family
