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The crime of murder is shocking in its impact on the public. So is the execution of the death penalty. Capital punishment also involves long periods of unhealthy sensationalism and emotionalism in trying a person for his life. It is something the public should not be required to endure just...
DID SAY THAT "THE POSSIBILITY OF DETERRENCE PROVIDES THE ONLY VIABLE, MORAL JUSTIFICATION." BUT I WENT ON TO ARGUE THAT THE STATISTICS ( WHICH YOU CITE) WOULD INDICATE THAT THERE ARE NO DISCERNIBLE DETERRENTS AND HENCE THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR THE DEATH PENALTY. I SAID FURTHER THAT SINCE INTENTIONAL UNJUSTIFIED...
The Deathwatch. At any time during the past few years Caryl Chessman might have saved his life by appealing to the Governor of California to exercise executive clemency and commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.**** But Chessman's prickly, demanding ego stands in the way. "Caryl Chessman has...
George Davis, best known of the three lawyers currently working for Caryl Chessman, was still full of plans for trying to save him, including a new appeal based on the claim that Chessman's twelve years under sentence of death constitute "cruel and unusual punishments," in violation of the...
The bitterly anti-Chessman Los Angeles Times thought he might well be. "One atrocious but clever criminal called into question our judicial system and brought discredit to our laws," editorialized the Times. "Then ... he intimidated the Governor of California and drove the timorous U.S. State Department to declare him an...