Word: loebs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heaven and Hell that the Fundamentalists have to flourish we will find many of our progressive moves being held in check. For instance their positive belief that everyone goes either to Heaven or Hell makes them argue in favor of capital punishment. At the time the time the Leopold-Loeb case was going on, I heard Doctor Straton from his own pulpit give as a reason for the horrible crime that the Devil had possessed the two boys...
...Chicago, scene of the Loeb-Leopold murder case, he challenged...
...sentencing by Judge John Richard Caverly of Leopold and Loeb to the penitentiary for life is the end, so far as court records are concerned, of what has been called "the greatest murder trial of all times." It has resulted, however, in giving a preferred position before the bar of public opinion to the case against capital punishment. In the past, the subject of capital punishment has been approached, mainly, from what may be called the "sentimental viewpoint." Its opponents have stressed "long lists of mistaken verdicts." Its advocates have sometimes been dangerously close to the theory of personal vengeance...
When Justice John Richard Caverly had finished reading the record of the Leopold-Loeb trial a fortnight ago, he "retired" to "think out" his duty under the Law and to write his brief opinion, and even friends were kept away from his door. So, it is said, the world was shut out of his mind. Alone, with the essential facts of the testimony and the applicable points of law, as raised by opposing counsel, he decided whether two human beings should live or die, a responsibility usually shared by the twelve men of a jury...
...Chicago, the trial of Leopold and Loeb is over; and the fate of the youthful slayers rests with Judge Caverly, who has announced that he will give his decision on Sept...