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...DESCRIBE CARYL CHESSMAN AS A "SELF-ADMITTED HARDENED CRIMINAL" BUT DO NOT CITE THE SOLID EVIDENCE OF HIS CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS TOWARD REHABILITATION AND HIS CONTRITION FOR WHATEVER CRIMES HE HAS COMMITTED...
...inflicted "upon the weak, the poor, the ignorant and against racial minorities. Beyond its horror and incivility, it has neither protected the innocent nor deterred the wicked." As he promised to do when he yielded to global clamor and put off for 60 days the execution of Kidnaper-Author Caryl Chessman last month (TIME, Feb. 29), Brown was asking the legislature to reconsider the state's death penalty-and, in so doing, to give him inferentially some guidance on how to dispose of the keen-minded kidnaper-sex pervert who had managed to delay his execution...
...included the kidnaping of two women, crimes of sex perversion against each of them, and the attempted rape of one of them-"indescribable crimes," as the Los Angeles Times put it last week, whose "horrible details lie in the decent exclusiveness of the court records." Clearly no ordinary criminal, Caryl Chessman, grade-school educated, had an IQ of 136, and he argued his own case creditably in court. Nonetheless, he was convicted by a jury under California's "Little Lindbergh Law" (which, like the federal "Lindbergh Law," makes kidnaping with bodily harm a capital offense) and sentenced...
...debate once and for all the question of capital punishment at its next session, beginning Feb. 29 (now being called "bloody Monday" by the Governor's aides). "If the people, acting through their elected representatives," said he, "determine that the present law shall be continued in effect, Caryl Chessman will be executed under...
Back in his sixth-floor cell, with his trusty typewriter and law books, was happy Caryl Whittier Chessman. The Governor himself took off for a weekend meeting of fellow Democrats in Las Vegas, Nev., but he left Sacramento besieged, bothered and bewildered. His mail, once 10 to 1 in favor of saving Chessman, had turned 3 to 1 in denunciation of the Governor himself. It would surely grow worse in the next 60 days, for, though Caryl Chessman had sown the wind, Pat Brown was reaping the whirlwind...