Podcasts · Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Derek Bentley Must Hang
· 39 min · S6 E42
Episode Derek Bentley Must Hang
An amateurish burglary in 1950s London ends in murder. One of the men involved is a 19-year-old named Derek Bentley. Bentley has the understanding of a child - and he wasn't the killer. But the British justice system seems determined to deliver the death penalty. The fate of capital punishment lies in the balance, and so too does the fate of Derek Bentley.
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