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Black Cap of Death
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In British Courts, a black capnote A simple square of black silk placed over the top of the judge's wig, with the sides at an angle relative to the side of his or her head. is the ultimate symbol of doom for a condemned man. Seeing a judge put it on lets all present in the courtroom know that, barring some miraculous appeal or other happenstance, the fate of the prisoner at the dock has been sealed. The sentence of death shall soon be passed. While British Judges are still issued the caps, the death penalty has been abolishednote Although the unlikely-to-be-enforced offences of violent piracy and high treason were both technically capital crimes until 1998. (and now banned Europe-wide by the European Convention on Human Rights), so they're unlikely to ever see use (with the possible exception of cases where the British Judicial Committee of the Privy Councilnote Whose members consist primarily of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, though it has other members still acts as court of final appeal for residual colonies or for former colonies which apply British law and still have the death penalty). Despite this, a judge wearing a black cap still serves as shorthand for "this prisoner's been sentenced to hang" (similarly to The Executioner's hood). A particularly crazy Hanging Judge might even be already wearing it. The cap has a black Color Motif both because black is the traditional color of death and mourning,note in the Western world, anyway and to signify that the judge is humble before God who has the only real power over life and death. Useless trivia: when the British ruled over Ireland, the judicial black cap was known in Gaelic as the caip bais, pronounced "kybosh". Thus a new word entered English.note This is only one of several suggested etymologies for the word kibosh Of course, the judge wasn't so much putting the kybosh on his own head as, symbolically, on the condemned man's... Examples |
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In Dial M for Murder, Margot's trial scene ends with the horrified look on her face after the judge puts on his black cap. | |
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In Judge Dee books, the Chinese equivalent is the judge wearing a red robe. | |
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Seen in Grantchester when a character is convicted of murder and sentenced to hang. The angle shifts momentarily to one above and behind the judge to call attention to the action. | |
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Foyle's War: The episode "The Hide" has full solemn choral music played as the the Black Cap is reverentially brought out and placed upon the judge's head to pronounce sentence, even as the scene is intercut with Foyle discovering the secrets that the sentencee is pleading guilty to protect. | |
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In Let Him Have It (a film based on the Derek Bentley case), the judge has his black cap put on his head when he sentences Bentley to hang. | |
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Late in Fables, specifically Volume 14: Witches, King Flycatcher dones a black hood when rendering his judgement about Mr. Brump the goblin devouring of Mr. Seed-create the squirrel, echoing this trope. It ends up subverted as Brump only ends up exiled. | |
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Extra History's second episode on Jonathan Wild, a chessmaster who controlled most of London's underground, all the while posing as a popular public figure. When he was found out, the court sentenced him to hang, and Matt describes the judge putting on his black cap. | |
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In Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, after Judge Wargrave has been found dead (apparently), another character (Philip Lombard) mentions that there will be no more putting on his black cap and sending others to the gallows for him. | |
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Rumpole of the Bailey: In the episode "Rumpole and the Golden Thread", when Rumpole visits an African nation which still has the death penalty, the resident British Ambassador is excited to see a capital case because seeing the black cap brought out "adds a certain zest" to the trial. Rumpole is not enthusiastic about seeing it in the least, however. | |
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In Death Comes to Pemberley and its television adaptation, the judge at George Wickham's trial puts it on when condemning him to the gallows. | |
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Spoofed in Monty Python's Flying Circus during the "Court Charades" sketch when a judge portrayed by Graham Chapman sentences another judge to be burnt at the stake as he slaps on a black cap. | |
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Genesis: At the end of "The Battle of Epping Forest", the gangs' accountants check back on the battlefield and find that all the participants killed each other, resulting in a draw; consequently, they decide to flip a coin to settle the boundary dispute that started the battle. The narrator of the song refers to the accountants as "Blackcap Barons" when recounting this, implying that they ultimately hold full responsibility for the carnage that took place. | |
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Appears in Downton Abbey when Mr. Bates receives a guilty verdict that carries a mandatory death sentence which fortunately is later overturned on appeal. | |
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