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A miscarriage of justice?

A funeral will take place for a woman hanged in 1922 for murdering her husband

A funeral will take place tomorrow for Edith Thompson, who was hanged for murdering her husband with her lover Frederick Bywaters in 1922, as her body has been exhumed and will be laid to rest with her parents. Professor Ren茅 Weis tells Today why he thinks her death was a miscarriage of justice.

(Image:Edith Thompson and her husband Percy Thompson, credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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