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Only one prisoner was put to death in the U.S. last year, and laws on capital punishment are being challenged or set aside. Of the 50 states, 37 have the death penalty, while 13 have either abolished or modified it. The Federal Government has carried out only one execution in ten years, and Michigan Senator Philip A. Hart, whose state killed the death penalty in 1847, has a bill pending that would abolish it for all federal crimes...
...Harvard, Vern Countryman and several other Law School professors asked the University to take all possible legal steps to keep the lists from falling into HUAC's hands. Gilbert Gale '69, head of an ad hoc committee to abolish HUAC, wrote a letter to President Pusey asking him to make a public statement on the University's policy toward a possible subpoena...
...influence peddlers mill through dank, malodorous corridors as prisoners accused of minor misdeeds are brought before a judge and sentenced by the dozen. President Johnson's commission suggests that misdemeanors should be handled in the felony courts, with their better judges and higher standards. The commission would also abolish the justice of the peace, rural counterpart of the lower court. Today the J.P. still operates in 35 states, and in most of these his pay comes from the fees and fines extracted from parties brought before him. His duties, says the commission, should be transferred to circuit or district...
...virtually one-man "war of attrition" to abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee is being waged from an office at Harvard. The one man is Vern Countryman, professor...
Countryman is chairman of the National Committee to Abolish HUAC, but the five letters and one petition he has written attacking HUAC in the past year were on his own initiative,. independent of his national committee, he said yesterday...