...Until You are Dead

On 20 July 1982, Roger Smith was stabbed to death on the front lawn of his luxurious Johannesburg home. On 22 November 1982, his wife was sentenced to hang for her part in his murder. Ten years later and now a free woman, Maureen Smith is finally able to tell what really happened on that terrible night. She speaks of her hellish year on Death Row and of her years in jail after her death sentence was changed to 20 years imprisonment. This is her frank and courageous account of a chilling and complex plot involving fraud and blackmail in London's East End and a murder eight thousand miles away. It is also one woman's heartfelt plea for more humane treatment of prisoners and the eradication forever of the death penalty.