Sir Ludovic Kennedy died earlier this week at the age of 89. During a long and eventful career as a journalist, broadcaster, author and campaigner for social justice, Sir Ludovic made a huge contribution to the abolition of the death penalty in Britain through his rigorous investigations into miscarriages of justice. It was he who proved that Timothy Evans — a young man who was wrongly hanged for the murder of his wife — was innocent. Kennedy later campaigned for the legalisation of voluntary euthanasia and wrote an influential book about atheism, “All in the Mind – a Farewell to God.” He was a long-time honorary associate of the National Secular Society.

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