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Execution : one man's life and death / John Mervyn Pugh ; with a foreword by Sir Michael Davies.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pugh, John (John Mervyn Cullwick)
Contributor:
Davies, Michael, 1921-2006.
Pugh, John (John Mervyn Cullwick).
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Capital punishment--England--Case studies.
Capital punishment.
Trials (Infanticide)--England--Birmingham.
Trials (Infanticide).
Watkins, William Arthur, 1902-1951.
Watkins, William Arthur.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (150 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Winchester : Waterside Press, 2005.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Provides an account of the life and times of William Watkins - 'an ordinary Englishman' - who, having fathered ten children, was executed in 1951 for the murder of his eleventh child.
Contents:
Cover
CONTENTS
Author's Note and Acknowledgements
Foreword by Sir Michael Davies
INTRODUCTION
PROLOGUE
PRELUDE
THE TRIAL
EPILOGUE
FINALE
POSTSCRIPT
Index
Back cover.
Notes:
Includes index.
Revised and updated version of Goodbye for ever: a victim of the system.
ISBN:
9786611024635
9781281024633
1281024635
9781906534141
1906534144
OCLC:
923509528

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