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"On this date I received Death Warrant in your case . . ." The presiding Superior Court judge, the note went on, had set the date for the prisoner's execution, a date seven weeks away: March 28, 1952.
But Death Row Prisoner Caryl Chessman still had a lot of life ahead of him. In the eight years since he read the warden's note, Convict Chessman, 38, has written four books, survived eight different execution dates, outlived the judge who sentenced him to death, and become the...
Capital punishment, said California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown in a 1,500-word special message to the state legislature last week, is "a gross failure," primarily inflicted "upon the weak, the poor, the ignorant and against racial minorities. Beyond its horror and incivility, it has neither protected...
The legislature's reaction to Brown's plea was icy. Speaking the mood of hostile lawmakers. Republican Assemblyman Bruce F. Sumner charged that Democrat Brown had "ducked his responsibility," put the legislature "in the unfair position of being a court of last resort for Chessman." Brown's...
These famous words, written by Bartolomeo Vanzetti shortly before his execution with Nicolo Sacco in 1927, may well be sung before long from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House-and quite an aria they would make for Leonard Warren or Giorgio Tozzi. Last week the Met announced that it...