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...want to live." To the State of Illinois, Crump is Prisoner 143384, male Negro, age 32-a convicted murderer sentenced to die in the electric chair Aug. 3. Crump's fight for life has stirred the biggest and most surprising outburst of clemency pleas since the Caryl Chessman case two years ago-but for far different reasons...
Barn Boss. Despite this, the unique aspect of Crump's case is that it does not rest on his guilt or innocence, but on what has happened to him while in jail. Unlike Chessman, who was arrogant and pathologically egotistical to the last, Crump appears to be totally reformed-so remarkably so, in fact, that his attorney, Donald P. Moore, this week is basing his appeal to the state parole board, which will recommend a course to the Governor, on an argument virtually without precedent in legal history: Crump's rehabilitation. Among the 60 persons who have given...
...Inevitably, this is Stroud's side of the case, as originally unearthed by Social Worker Thomas E. Gaddis in his 1955 book, Bird Man of Alcatraz. Fact is, Stroud, offscreen. was a stiff-necked, arrogant, impenitent man and at least initially a homicidal threat to society. Like Caryl Chessman, he had just enough brilliance and flair for publicity to amass widespread public sympathy for his cause...
...York to Los Angeles and from Copenhagen to Delhi, demonstrations were held to protest the Soviet tests. But they seemed, somehow, to have little more fervor than such anti-U.S. demonstrations as those generated by the executions of convicted Atom Spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Abductor Caryl Chessman. In this sense, Khrushchev appeared to have won his gamble...
Wall of Privacy. In dreamlike slow motion. Author Waller unfolds all the false leads, the endless waits, the newspaper clamors and police tricks of another day-and finally the bitter legal battles over reprieve and execution stays that Caryl Chessman might have admired for their exploitation of the law's delay...