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In Norristown, Pa., "Big Jake" Lehman was told that his sentence for first degree murder had been commuted from electrocution to life imprisonment. Said he: "Now I can finish my jigsaw puzzle."
It is now a year and three months since the nine Scottshoro boys were put in the Death House in Birmingham to await electrocution after an obvious mistrial. In that time the case has been reviewed by the supreme Court of Alabama and finally by the United States Supreme Court...
Some events of the five-year period Author Sullivan has raked together: sinking of the Titanic, the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight, forced dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, electrocution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for instigating the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology...
Howard Phillips, innocent of crime, is brought into the deathhouse as an electrocution prospect. The other convicts, introverts all, reflect on life as they await their turns in the chair. As in the play, the cell lights flicker and dim when the current is turned into the chair. Phillips swoons...
In Aiken County, S. C., Farmer George Jackson ran amok, slew two of his uncles, an aunt, three cousins. He was convicted, sentenced to electrocution July 29. Last week 15 of George Jackson's surviving relatives petitioned Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood not to reprieve him.