LinksSaddam's Execution: Tyrannicide, Legality, and Democracy http://www.telospress.com/main/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=180 The radical lawyer John Cooke prosecuted the King of England, Charles I, in 1649—and in doing so opened a chapter in legal history that reverberates 357 years later. Lawyer and human rights campaigner Geoffrey Robertson, in an extract from his book The Tyrannicide Brief (2005), describes Cooke's pivotal role and assesses its modern implications: Details | Report |
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