of justice, although it was contested by a series of lawyers and politicians well after the events. However, several authors, such as Ludovic Kennedy, pointed out the many contradictions and errors in the Crown's case, and the innocence of Evans is now widely accepted, both by public, experts and by the Crown itself. The case was the most prominent of a series of miscarriages which ultimately led to the abolition of capital punishment for murder in England, Wales and Scotland in 1965. Other cases He reported on numerous deaths from carbon monoxide poisoning, accounting for nearly half of all suicides in Britain in the 1950s when coal gas was widely available in many homes until in the 1960s it was progressively replaced by the less toxic natural gas: the suicide rate in Britain fell by almost a third and has not risen since. His analysis of the problem of identifying the gas in bodies after death was published posthumously in his autobiography, together with other of his cases such as the Rhyl mummy and the Colchester taxi cab murder. In the same book, he also examined the forensic evidence involving Jack the Ripper. Tribute The famous crime fiction author Earl Stanley Gardner dedicated one of his novels, The Case of the Duplicate Daughter, to his friend Dr, Camps in appreciation of his professional acumen. A short dedication note by the author can be found at the beginning of the novel. Bibliography Practical Forensic Medicine, Francis E Camps, Hutchinson (1971). Camps on crime, Francis E Camps, David & Charles (1973). Francis Camps: famous case histories of the celebrated pathologist by Jackson, Robert; London, 1975 See also Sir Bernard Spilsbury Keith Simpson Pathology List of pathologists References Mitchel P. Roth, "Historical dictionary of law enforcement", Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001, , p. 54 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Camps, Francis Edward by J.M.Cameron External links Gallery of those involved in the Adams case, including a photo of Camps 1905 births 1972 deaths English pathologists British forensic scientists People from Teddington People educated at Marlborough College Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians 20th-century English medical doctors