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To their mammoth trials and huge public executions, the Chinese Communists added a more intimate instrument of terror: small "citizens' conferences" to review sentences already passed on "enemies of the people." In its first "review" session in Peking last week, an eager citizens' conference approved the jail sentences...
Time Out. In Honolulu, when Burglar Lawrence Carreira heard the judge announce, "I sentence you to Oahu Prison for 20 years," he passed out cold, was revived in time to catch the final words: "However, execution of sentence is suspended and I place you on probation for a period of...
As execution time nears, the chaplain writes a letter to Liuba for the quivering Baranowski. He assures the deserter "that eternal love does not refuse him whom this world thrusts out," helps him stumble awkwardly through the Lord's Prayer, gives him the courage to stand erect until the...
Under Nazi rule, the Germans used the great hall of Pankrac Prison in Prague as a combination courtroom and execution chamber. Last week into Pankrac's great hall the Czech Communist government brought its own victim: Associated Press Correspondent William N. Oatis, who was arrested by Czech police nearly...
The tide of terror rolled on. Shanghai's Liberation Daily reported the execution of 208 "counter-revolutionaries," who were made to kneel in a suburban lot one afternoon while a firing squad finished them off from the rear. For the first time, as a new service to its readers...