Capital punishment was effectively abolished in the country nearly forty years ago. Before that, people from all walks of life were hanged for all manner of reasons, often in cases that we, today, would consider unjust, as in a ‘crime of passion’, say. But if there was ever going to be justice in hanging anybody, then the case of George Joseph Smith, the infamous ‘brides in the bath’ killer who murdered three women, would surely be top of the list or thereabouts.