TY - BOOK ID - 149908086 TI - The day the king died : a terrible miscarriage of justice AU - Morris, Jim AU - Maddocks, Glyn PY - 2015 PB - Hampshire, England : Waterside Press, DB - UniCat KW - Trials (Murder) KW - Judicial error KW - Judicial error KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:149908086 AB - There was a quaint British convention under which executions were stopped and sentence commuted if scheduled to take place on the day the sovereign died. Alfred Moore was doubly unfortunate: still protesting his innocence he was on the scaffold an hour before the death of King George VI was announced. ER -