Now it was up to Florie's biased judge to pass sentence on her.
English judges follow a tradition when they are going to impose the death sentence.
They wear a black cap before they speak. As Justice Stephen was about to pass sentence, he put on his black cap. There was a gasp in the courtroom. Florence Maybrick was sentenced to be hung until she was dead. Because Britain did not have a Court of Criminal Appeals in 1889, Florence was doomed.