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Raise Doubt. Ray is now pushing for a trial, claiming that he was coerced into pleading guilty by his lawyer at the time, Percy Foreman. An expensive and flamboyant attorney, Foreman believed that the case against his client was so strong that only a guilty plea could save him from...
The guillotine is not French and was not named for its inventor. (The several-hundred-year-old device was merely advocated by Dr. Joseph Guillotin, who opposed the prevalent methods of torture and execution. After the Terror, Guillotin's family changed its name.)
Less than two years since the executions of two writers and poets, and the execution of 200 others, an AP dispatch from Tehran has informed us that the government of Iran is planning to execute ten political opponents of the Shah by firing squad.
While the world responded with outrage, and protests spread throughout Europe in response to the executions in Spain, the news of executions in Iran have received almost no press attention. It is time that the American people heard the truth about the situation in Iran. We are also outraged at...
Human decency and respect for human life dictates that the Shah stay the execution of the ten Iranians. We the undersigned urge that the Iranian government stop the execution of the ten defendants and permit the case of the ten to be remanded to the custody and protection of the...