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...have a paragraph on Joseph Hicswa [TIME, May 20]. I wish to bring to your attention one sentence with which I can't agree...
President Truman last week tempered Army justice with civilian mercy: Pfc. Joseph Hicswa, sentenced to death for the murder of two Japanese civilians during a drunken brawl (TIME, Jan. 28), will serve 30 years' imprisonment at hard labor instead. The President acted on the strength of a review by the Judge Advocate General's office which found that: 1) the crime was unpremeditated; 2) Hicswa's mentality was sufficiently low to justify clemency; 3) the death sentence was excessive. More compelling, Pentagon lawyers could find no precedent of a U.S. serviceman's having been executed...
Sirs: Perhaps you would be interested in knowing how the G.I.s out here feel about [Private] Hicswa, who was court-martialed, sentenced to die for the murder of a Japanese [TIME, Jan. 28]. The men agree that he should be punished-with a jail term-but that death is too severe. . . . We disagree with your statement that the Stateside papers "overplayed [Hicswa] . . . outrageously." The Army court-martial system is so weighted and bigoted, especially toward the enlisted man, that we feel that any and all court-martial cases should be brought before the American public. . . . (CPL.) ART YELLEN [AND FOUR...
...seventh day, a 55-year-old man in Passaic, N.J. asked Joey Hicswa's parents to write the Government "and ask them if I could take Joe's place...
...sixth day: MAC WILL REVIEW HICSWA SENTENCE. (A fact some newspapers overlooked was that a death sentence automatically goes to General MacArthur, as theater commander.) Picture caption (family around the radio): Hicswa Family Rejoices Over Good News...