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...sentenced to death for criminal offenses in the Western world are inarticulate and without the influence that Caryl Chessman's talents as writer and self-taught advocate have brought to his cause. They tend to be, said Governor Brown in his message asking the legislature to abolish capital punishment, "the weak, the poor, the ignorant." But Chessman wrote a bestselling book, Cell 2455 Death Row.* Published in 1954, it has sold 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone, been translated into more than a dozen foreign languages. Cell 2455 Death Row is an erratic and pretentious book...
After the Marathon. Governor Brown called the special session of the state legislature to consider his proposal to abolish capital punishment, but even before the session started, Brown decided that he could not win. The lawmakers were sore at him for "passing the buck," as they grumblingly put it, and a poll showed that sentiment in the legislature was running 4 to 1 against saving Caryl Chessman from the gas chamber. Many legislators felt strongly that Chessman had been escaping justice too long. Facing defeat, Brown decided not to fight, tamely placated fellow Democrats in the legislature by agreeing...
...instead of deterring it. But to the rulers of England, it seemed that capital punishment, even for offenses now considered petty, was necessary for the preservation of law and order. Cried Lord Ellenborough, Chief Justice of England, speaking in the House of Lords in 1810 against a bill to abolish the death penalty for shoplifting: "I am certain depredations to an unlimited extent would immediately be committed . . . Repeal this law and see the contrast-no man can trust himself for an hour out of doors without the most alarming apprehensions that, on his return, every vestige of his property will...
...Michigan State University (enrollment: 19,000) in East Lansing, where the faculty voted 400 to 248 to abolish compulsory ROTC. The six-man board of trustees was split, postponed its decisive vote for 60 days...
...Federal Government's power to cope with most domestic problems is severely limited. Washington cannot abolish Southern prejudices against Negroes or the tendency of local politicians to demand federal aid instead of upping local taxes. But there is one issue that the Federal Government is entirely competent to deal with: reform of the federal income-tax structure. The present structure, piled up piecemeal over the years, combines steeply rising tax rates that reach a confiscatory 91% with a maze of loopholes and deductions. A millionaire may pay a lower rate of income tax on his gross income than...