How does the announcement that Julian McMahon has joined Erin Patterson's defence team, currently seeking leave to appeal, connect the case to the history of capital punishment?

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If Patterson had been convicted of murder prior to 1975, the year Victoria abolished the death penalty, she would have been sentenced to hang.

McMahon has first-hand experience of capital punishment, having defended Australians sentenced to death in countries that retain the death penalty.

Twenty years ago, he attended Singapore's Changi prison where Melbourne man, Van Tuong Nguyen , was hanged for smuggling a small amount of heroin.

Ten years ago, Andrew Chan a

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