Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The condemned man was expecting the visitor. Slumped on a bunk in his cell. Milton Williams, 28,. looked up last week at the friendly, shirtsleeved man with a cigar fixed in one corner of his mouth, and talked of the coming execution. As always, Editor Don Reid. 52, of Texas...
An accident of geography has made Don Reid the nation's busiest death-house-beat man. Huntsville has Texas' only execution chamber (electric chair) and, as a wire-service stringer, Reid has been watching men die since 1937. Milton Williams was the 158th-a total Reid believes to...
Reid was convinced that Milton Williams (a Negro) was guilty of the crime for which he was executed last week-the rape of a 16-year-old Negro girl-but that did not make his 158th execution easy. With prison officials, Reid sat down to the traditional Texas execution eve...
The broad, with good reason, demands triple damages-and wins them from a local court. But Kovacs only leers happily around his cigar, and his lawyers inform her lawyer (Jack Lemmon): "We have the entire appellate structure of the State of Maine before us." Deciding that two can play dirty...
Certainly, Stendahl had no intention of showing Julien exciting this mortal coil to the unconstrained accompaniment of a chorus of screeching voices, dominated by vibrating sopranos who soar higher and higher. Again, Stendahl had no intention of letting the weather conspire with the gods on the day of Julien's...