Word: caryl
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Your March 21 cover story on Caryl Chessman was interesting and challenging to the minds of jurists and every American. Your decision to grace the cover with this man could only be made in America-freedom of the press. I must say, though, that such a decision-for Chessman to occupy the same position as men like Eisenhower, Dulles, Truman, Roosevelt, et al.-shocked me and failed to meet with my approval...
...much interested in your March 21 story on Caryl Chessman, but I believe that his considerable lack of charm and/or innocence has little to do with the case. It seems clear that in a civilized world, capital punishment must be abolished because: 1) there is no proof that it is a deterrent to crime, 2) there is increasing proof that insanity, if only the temporary variety, is always present in a major crime, 3) there is always the ghastly possibility of mistaken conviction, and 4) individuals and societies who kill their fellow men, "legally" or otherwise, suffer a very real...
Judging from the logic expressed by many Californians, the sensible thing to do is to execute Edmund Brown and elect Caryl Chessman the next Governor of the state. LANNY R. MIDDINGS Los Angeles...
...never write letters to magazines or other papers as I am no crank writer, but I was more than disturbed and disgusted when you permitted a picture of Caryl Chessman on your cover. How could you glorify such a despicable criminal...
...potential murderers must fear the death penalty) and to the opinions of law-enforcement officers (burglars seldom carry guns, and robbers sometimes use unloaded guns, because they do not want to risk killing somebody). Says Los Angeles County Prosecutor Miller Leavy, who argued the state's case against Caryl Chessman back in 1948: "Capital punishment is necessary in our community." In most states of the U.S., it seems, a majority of the legislators agrees with...