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...FAMILY OF PASCUAL DUARTE by Camilo Jose Cela, translated and with an introduction by Anthony Kerrigan. 166 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...
Governor Peabody showed considerable courage, as well as laudable regard for morality and statistical evidence, last January by coming out against capital punishment. His subsequent commutation of Kerrigan's sentence even though the Executive Council overruled it, indicated that he meant what he said...
...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 sentences since 1947 have all been commuted to life imprisonment...
...ritual murder of Kerrigan will accomplish nothing. It will not bring the dead policeman back to life. It will not lower the rate of such crimes in the future. And it will not even serve as a powerful object lesson or a proper titillation for those with sadistic impulses, because it will be done quickly and secretively, like the shameful thing...
...statement to the Executive Council, Governor Peabody argued that there exists a reasonable doubt of Kerrigan's guilt, that conviction had been made on the basis of circumstantial evidence, and that two other publicized killings of policemen in recent days had influenced the case. The judgments of juries are and always have been human and imperfect acts; in Kerrigan's case, the element of doubt is simply more striking than it is in most murder cases. But the death penalty denies that there can be any doubt...