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Charles I, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, was executed on Tuesday, 30 January 1649 [b] outside the Banqueting House on Whitehall, London. The execution was the culmination of political and military conflicts between the royalists and the parliamentarians in England during the English Civil War , leading to the capture and trial of Charles.
King Charles the Martyr, or Charles, King and Martyr, is a title of Charles I, who was King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1625 until his execution on 30 January 1649. The title is used by high church Anglicans who regard Charles's execution as a martyrdom .
A plate depicting the trial of Charles I in January 1649, from John Nalson's "Record of the Trial of Charles I, 1688" in the British Museum.. The Trial of Charles I was a significant event in English history that took place in January 1649, marking the first time a reigning monarch was tried and executed by his own subjects.
Critics of the official verdict on King's death bristled at Killing the Dream, criticizing Posner for, in part, basing it on "a psychological evaluation of James Earl Ray, which he [Posner] is not qualified to give, and he dismisses evidence of conspiracy in King's murder as cynical attempts to exploit the tragedy". [84]
The King family has consistently said that they believe Ray was innocent, though this conclusion was disputed by the United States Department of Justice in 2000. [1] [2] The King family has stated that they believe the true murderer was a Memphis Police Department officer, Lieutenant Earl Clark. [3] [4]
The trial occurred in late 1999. The jury unanimously agreed that there was a conspiracy perpetrated by Jowers and other parties, including various government agencies, to murder King and frame James Earl Ray as a patsy. [1] [2]
Benjamin Woolley is an author, media journalist and television presenter. [1]In 2018, he published The King's Assassin, [2] about the affair between James VI and I and George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.
Reviews: Rotten Tomatoes 56% | IMDb 7.1/10 In Déjà Vu , Doug Carlin, an ATF Special Agent, time travels to the past to catch a terrorist who killed hundreds of people in a ferry bombing.