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Outside San Quentin's "smokehouse"-so named because smoke curls from the gas chamber's chimney when a man is put to death-almost 500 opponents of capital punishment conducted a demonstration. Other groups picketed Governor Ronald Reagan's office and home. At the request of California...
Only one prisoner was put to death in the U.S. last year, and laws on capital punishment are being challenged or set aside. Of the 50 states, 37 have the death penalty, while 13 have either abolished or modified it. The Federal Government has carried out only one execution in...
There are 404 condemned men, duly convicted and now awaiting execution in penitentiaries. One of them, Rapist William Patrick Clark, 29, who said that he wanted to die, was granted a stay by Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox last week, only 49 minutes before his scheduled electrocution. The same...
California has another execution scheduled for this week and 59 other men in its death row. "We are treating each one of these cases on its own mer its," says Governor Reagan. "Certainly, if clemency is indicated, no one would be happier than I would if I were able to...
The governor alone does not decide questions of clemency or commutation. Stays of execution, commutations, and pardons can be given only with the consent of the eight-member Council. Unfortunately this year the governor is an ambitious, calculating Republican vice Presidential candidate and the majority of the Council are stern...