James and John by Chris Bryant

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/131637 to listen full audiobooks. Title: James and John Author: Chris Bryant Narrator: Chris Bryant Format: mp3 Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins Release date: 02-15-24 Ratings: Not rated yet Genres: 19th Century Publisher's Summary: They had nothing to expect from the mercy of the crown; their doom was sealed; no plea could be urged in extenuation of their crime, and they well knew that for them there was no hope in this world. When Charles Dickens wrote these tragic lines he was penning fact, not fiction. He had visited the condemned cells at the infamous prison at Newgate, where seventeen men who had been sentenced to death were awaiting news of their pleas for mercy. Two men were particularly striking: James Pratt and John Smith, who had been convicted of homosexuality.