Tyrannicide Brief: he sent Charles I to die

Tyrannicide Brief: Story of the Man Who Sent Charles I to the Scaffold King Charles I came from Geoffrey Robertson. Charles triggered the tragic civil wars (starting in 1642) when one in ten Eng­lish­men died. But in 1649, Parliament struggled to find a law­yer with the guts to pro­secute a king who claimed to be above the law. In the end, they chose the radical lawyer John Cooke (1608–60) whose Pur­it­an consc­ience, pol­itical vis­ion and love of civil liberties made him stand out. Cooke might have been just an average lawyer but he was an impressive reformer. Robertson said that in the 1640s, Cooke had been the first to assert that poverty was a cause of crime. Cooke was already arguing for: a nat­ional health service; a national legal serv­ice; end most capital punishment; probation for those who stole out of hunger; and an end to the use of Latin in court. Geoffrey Roberston's book Note the execution of King Charles I on the front cover Cooke was a criminologist who wrote…