Word: chessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly an incredible sign of the times when such value is placed on the life of one such person as Chessman. The hue and cry that has blasted up over the fate of one who is little more than a mad dog, by nations all over the world whose all too recent pasts produced no protest over the torture and imprisonment of hundreds of thousands of innocents-leaves one pretty disgusted at the state of affairs. Has sensationalism so completely taken over in the world that we have so quickly forgotten the hateful, drawn-out agonies of the Jews...
Nothing since the end of World War II has smeared the U.S.'s name more than Chessman's twelve-year-delayed execution. V. E. RAGONESI Valletta, Malta...
...where Chessman's long battle of appeals was generally viewed as an unprecedented testing of the patience of justice, there was little emotional reaction. Abroad, he was still the symbol of the crusade against capital punishment. In Lisbon, demonstrators hurled rocks, broke windows in the U.S. embassy. Elsewhere in the city, white-collar workers donned black ties of protest. In Montevideo, Uruguay, a crowd of 100 students gathered outside the U.S. embassy shouting "Murderers," "Assassins," and shaking fists at embassy aides who looked out windows. In Pretoria, South Africa, university students marched to the U.S. embassy, raised a banner...
...witnesses, two-thirds of them newsmen, filed out to report that Caryl Chessman, sentenced to die twelve years ago for kidnaping for robbery with bodily harm, had kept his ninth appointment in San Quentin's gas chamber...
...issue" was his abortive attempt to get an anti-capital-punishment bill through the legislature on the strength of the Chessman case (TIME, March 21). With that slapped down and well behind him, Pat Brown set about selling his record by pen, handshake and after-dinner speech. And he could tick off some notable legislative achievements designed to keep king-size California abreast of the times. Items...