The Cannibalism Case That Was Really About Murder.
Can you kill one innocent person, to save yourself? A famous court case said: no.
The Case...
In 1884, four shipwrecked sailors were stranded in a lifeboat for many days without food or water. Starving and desperate, two men, Dudley and Stephens, killed the weakest person among them: a 17-year-old cabin boy, Richard Parker.
They then ate his body to survive until rescue came.
The shocking fact was cannibalism.
The legal issue was whether n