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REPUBLICAN CHRISTIAN HERTER AND DEMOCRAT "PAT" BROWN HAVE COLLABORATED IN THE CHESSMAN CASE [Feb. 29] IN THE WORST NATIONAL DISGRACE SINCE TRUMAN FIRED MACARTHUR, THIS BEING THE OPINION OF A LIFELONG FOE OF CAPITAL PUNISHMENT...
...ominous thing about the Chessman case is that a state government is influenced by Washington and (probably) Rome...
...Chessman case, distilled, presents a simple issue to the Christian: Is the deliberate killing of a human being-a fellow child of God-moral? Can it be squared with the letter or the spirit of the Sermon on the Mount? Is it possible that Christ himself would approve? If anyone can honestly say yes, then he either misconceives the Christian ethic or I can refer him to a better and more sublime...
...DESCRIBE CARYL CHESSMAN AS A "SELF-ADMITTED HARDENED CRIMINAL" BUT DO NOT CITE THE SOLID EVIDENCE OF HIS CONSIDERABLE PROGRESS TOWARD REHABILITATION AND HIS CONTRITION FOR WHATEVER CRIMES HE HAS COMMITTED...
...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 for 11½ years...