Word: chessman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zielinski, her brains splattered about, was found along the bank of a sandpit in Mahwah, NJ. Within three months, Edgar Smith, 23, a knockabout machinist, was charged, tried, found guilty and sentenced to death for her murder. Eleven years later, challenging the death-house limbo record set by Caryl Chessman, Edgar Smith is still alive, fighting-and writing-for his life...
Brown acknowledges that he detected a shift in popular feeling after he commuted Caryl Chessman's death sentence, as well as growing resentment of Negroes and state spending. "But I erroneously thought that people were proud of the things we had done," he says. "All they were really concerned with was taxes, I guess." Working without the blessings of second sight, Brown pitched a campaign that emphasized the "results" of his eight years in office: electoral reforms, a two billion dollar water program, a master plan for education, highway construction, and the establishment of a Fair Employment Practices Commission...
...nine stays of execution, once beat their date with the electric chair by only three hours. On grounds ranging from coerced confessions to perjured testimony, they appealed to Louisiana's top state court twice, to the U.S. Supreme Court four times. In 1964, the pair broke Caryl Chessman's eleven-years eleven-months Death Row record, and kept appealing in a process that, one judge complained, "seems to have...
...involved in a criminal situation appears on the cover of TIME. When we do have such a cover story, its chief concern is not so much that man and his specific deeds as it is the broader, often sociological implications of what he did. Thus when Caryl Chessman, the convicted kidnaper and sex offender, appeared on the cover (March 21, 1960), he was the center of a worldwide dispute over the moral and legal ramifications of capital punishment. Lee Harvey Oswald, this era's most infamous psychotic killer, appeared (Oct. 2, 1964) as the world considered the Warren Commission...
...goes, so go the rest)." The list included Ralph Ginzburg, the publisher of Fact magazine; Bishop James Pike ("Because he's a kid's kind of troublemaker, always in hot water, always on the liberal side: birth control, capital punishment. The Bomb, and all that"); Caryl Chessman; Norman Mailer; and, good God, B.F. Skinner ("Because he points to the cool world...