Word: murderers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dyer anti-Lynch law, it is better to maintain a semblance of punishment than to allow a man to be pardoned to be tried for murder and then receive an eight months' sentance; or to permit an attorney to outrage the decency of the state. J. R. SCHIMDT March...
Captain Robert Rosenbluth, tried in 1922 and acquitted of Cronkhite's murder, also demands a full investigation-to exonerate himself...
Secretary Weeks has promised a thorough inquiry. No evidence of murder has ever been produced. A confession made by a bugler implicating Captain Rosenbluth has been retracted...
...were enjoying a moving picture they were placed in isolation, put on bread and water, and strung up by the hands for fourteen days for eight hours a day. On the eight day they were beaten with baseball bats by some prisoners who had been given long sentences for murder and other crimes, and who beat the men with the hope of getting a commutation or a parole. One of these men, a negro serving a life sentence for murder, received a commuted sentence, according to the speaker, and three months later held up and killed a man in Indianapolis...
...extraordinary that this man committed another murder," said Mr. Manning. "It would have been very extraordinary if he had not. Would it not have been more practical to use different methods in such an institution? These conditions are not the fault of President Harding, or of the United States Senate, they are the fault of the American people...