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BURN, KILLER, BURN! (391 pp.) - Paul Crump - Johnson...
Convict Paul Crump has been much publicized. The crime he was convicted for- a 1953 holdup slaying-was apparently the act of an angry young Negro who went wrong in an environment where nobody ever found it easy to go right. Last summer, when he was only hours away from the electric chair, Illinois Governor Otto Kerner finally yielded to mounting national pressure and commuted Crump's sentence to life imprisonment (TIME, Aug. 10). Why? Because Crump, in the course of his imprisonment, had become an entirely different personality. And one of the many things that helped to transform...
Looking back on his own pre-prison life not so much in anger as in new-found wisdom, Crump tells the story of Guy Morgan. Like Crump, Morgan hates his father, a hellfire-and-brimstone revival preacher with a weakness for girls, who finally abandons the family for the favors of a particular girl named Zola. Morgan, like Crump, is brutally and unjustifiably beaten by a Negro-hating Chicago cop. But with plenty of precedent and plenty of excuse for blaming all Morgan's troubles on society, Crump instead makes his story illustrate a more mature individual judgment...
...hold public office." He tried his editorial best to see that none did. He also rang the Tennessean like a fire gong, calling attention to corruption and evil wherever he saw it. Cops, ward heelers, city councilmen and even Tennessee's late Political Boss Ed Crump, all bowed to Silliman Evans' journalistic wrath. Then, in 1955, Evans died peacefully in his sleep,f leaving two sons and a characteristic injunction in his will: "Continue to oppose the political machine until it and all its evil works are exterminated." Cautious Vapidity. But Silliman Evans Jr., who took over...
Faced with the kind of decision that must torture the conscience of a Governor, Democrat Otto Kerner (a onetime county judge) spared the condemned man's life, changed Crump's sentence to 100 years "without parole"−a condition that some lawyers doubt that a Governor can legally impose...