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Dean Monro said yesterday that the College would not issue an official statement or take any other action in behalf of John W. Perdew '64, a vounteer civil rights worker facing trial in Americus, Ga., on a charge that could lead to his execution. He added, however, that he personally...
John J. Kerrigan, convicted of the murder of a Cambridge policeman, will be electrocuted in Walpole State Prison on Thursday. Last week, the Massachusetts Executive Council decided to reject Governor Peabody's appeal for mercy. The execution will be the first in this state in sixteen years; the other death...
Governor Peabody plans to "explore every avenue" until the last moment. We hope he will win his fight against capital punishment--a fight he has carried on with consistent courage--soon enough to insure that this execution, if it must occur, will be the last in Massachusetts.
Ben Bella seems hurt that anyone could consider him power-mad. "We are making a real revolution that seeks to transform a whole society," he told last week's convention, pointing out truthfully that his regime has treated its few political prisoners mildly, and that "there has not been...
Looking for 2,770. Some of his adherents fell away, but not before he had succeeded in the execution of one of his comrades. Ivanov, a young student, was lured to a cave, beaten and shot to death. He had been told that a printing press was hidden there and...