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The dead aren’t always excused from trial

FILE - This Wednesday Sept. 3, 2008 file photo shows the statue of Oliver Cromwell during a ceremony to mark the 350th anniversary of his death as Lord Protector of England in 1658, outside the Palace of Westminster, in central London. As a towering figure in 17th-century England, Cromwell attracted wide enmity _ signing the death warrant for King Charles I, taking harsh measures against Catholics and demonstrating brutal military brilliance. The resentment was such that although he never faced trial dead or alive, he did suffer a posthumous MOSCOW (AP) — The tax-evasion conviction of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky more than three years after his death in a Russian prison was the first under a 2011 Russian law allowing posthumous trials, but not the first time the dead have been put on trial.

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