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"Let Him Live!" The legislature's capital-punishment hearing took place against the stir and clamor of mounting agitation to save Chessman from the "green room," as Death Row inmates call it. An auto caravan pulled into Sacramento bringing 384 University of California faculty signatures on a petition urging...
Last week, though the outcome was already decided, the committee held a marathon 16-hour hearing to listen to witnesses for and against capital punishment. When the final witness wound up his testimony, past midnight, the committee got down to its business, and by a vote of 8 to 7...
In the U.S., six states have abolished capital punishment entirely: Wisconsin (1853), Maine (1887), Minnesota (1911), Alaska (pre-statehood), Hawaii (pre-statehood), Delaware (1958). Three others, Michigan, Rhode Island and North Dakota, are usually counted as abolition states, because they retain the death penalty only for one or two rare...
In arguing that capital punishment has no deterrent value, its opponents usually appeal to statistics. Often cited is the 1953 report of the British Royal Commission on Capital Punishment, which, after a painstaking statistical study of comparative homicide rates in various countries over the years, concluded that "there is no...
The best news of all for Moslem women was the complete abolition of the Bait al-Taah. After October, whenever a distraught wife runs home to mother, she can be won back only by a husband's pleading, not by a policeman. For diehard Moslem men, the new matrimonial...