Re: "Christmas Humphries"
Oct 11, 1996 03:38 AM
by Jerry Hejka-Ekins
Michael wrote:
>I saw a BBC-TV program some time ago on court cases in which
>the judge probably condemned a suspect erroneously to death.
>Among the judges who probably misjudged a suspect and sent him
>to the gallows was Christmas Humphries!
Not likely. Christmas Humphreys was famous in England for his
stance against capital punishment. The late Elsie Benjamine once
told me that as a Judge, Humphreys was of very high status--
something comparable to a supreme court justice here.
Jerry
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