Publisher's Synopsis
"Murder, Mystery And Execution" - Volume 1 - looks at 30 [Thirty] capital cases of murder in Britain and Ireland from 1800 to the effective end of the death penalty in these islands in 1964 .... The motives ranged from anger/revenge; passion & jealousy; robbery, sexual et al to those who had no motive .... But all of them had as their last sight - the rope on the gallows and the hangman and his white hood ....