Name: Fatal Confession. A Girl's Murder, a Man's Execution, and the Fitton Case
SKU: 64765418
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Author: Carolyn Strange
ISBN: 9780774872768

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Fatal Confession. A Girl's Murder, a Man's Execution, and the Fitton Case

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University of British Columbia Press

Autor

Carolyn Strange

Colección

Landmark Cases in Canadian Law

Año

2025

N° páginas

306

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6x14 cm

ISBN13

9780774872768

Fatal Confession. A Girl's Murder, a Man's Execution, and the Fitton Case

Carolyn Strange (Autor) · University of British Columbia Press · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Fatal Confession. A Girl's Murder, a Man's Execution, and the Fitton Case"

When the body of thirteen-year-old Linda Lampkin was found, raped and strangled, on Toronto's industrial waterfront in 1956, locals feared a sex maniac was on the loose. Within a day, detectives announced the arrest of Robert Fitton. He was charged with murder, although Fitton claimed the sex was consensual and the strangulation accidental. Fatal Confession is a compelling analysis of that violent encounter and the ensuing legal and political entanglements, which ended in the hanging of Fitton despite the jury's and judge's recommendation of mercy. The case exposed judicial ambivalence about the criminal definition of constructive murder in connection with rape, disagreements over the voluntariness of confessions to police, and widespread doubt over the culpability of males "tempted" by precocious females. Weaving together politics, culture, legal history, and biography, Fatal Confession unravels a case that ultimately called into question both capital punishment and masculinist legal interpretations of sexual consent.