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Capital Punishment
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In the 1960’s capital punishment was still an issue in our country. Itbrought up many questions about morality which finally led to itsabolition in 1969.
In the 1950’s the houses in Rillington Place were divided into 10flats. From the outside Number 10 looked the same as every other,however the horrors that were found in it in March 1953 made it one ofthe most infamous addresses in England.
John Christie’s murder method was to lure women to his house, get themdrunk then gas them. Once they were unconscious he strangled them andfinished by raping their corpses.
In 1949, Timothy Evans returned home to find his wife and 14 month olddaughter strangled to death. With shock and panic he fled to London. Afew days later he went to the police in Wales and told them of themurders- he blamed his neighbor John Christie however he was chargedand tried for both murders and hanged in 1950. John Christie had alsofled his flat but a tenant found three dead prostitutes hidden inChristie’s kitchen. Upon further examination they found Mrs. Christieunder the floorboards in the bedroom and body parts and bones in thegarden. When he was found he confessed to have killing his wife andeventually others. Altogether he was charged with 9 murders and hangedon July 15th, 1953.
Timothy Evan was an innocent man hanged for a crime he did not commit.Who has to decide whether people are innocent or guilty and does thesociety have the right to take a life? By killing those who we believeto have killed are we not ourselves made killers and sinking to thelevel of those we are trying to eradicate. There was a reprievesystem, however how can we be sure that those hanged were guilty ofworse crimes than that reprieved, or was the whole reprieve systemjust a lottery that was incapable of distinguishing between degrees ofwickedness?
Another case is the one of Ruth Ellis.
