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...looks," chuckled the Governor of Iowa, "as if I might have to write out a pardon for myself when I get home tomorrow...
Emotional Britons have been excited about "mercy killing" since the pardon acquittal of Mother May Brownhill for poisoning and asphyxiating her imbecile son Dennis (TIME, March 11). Lord Moynihan of the Royal College of Surgeons is pushing the "Right to Die" movement, backed by the Earl of Listowel and Lord Denman, onetime Governor General of Australia. Last week Lord Moynihan deprecated the Mail story as a cheap advertisement, said his group would put his proposition sensibly to the British public in December, try to get a permissive bill through Parliament...
...that the German carpenter's conviction was "one to which the evidence inescapably led." In a forlorn effort to save Hauptmann from the electric chair sometime before Christmas, defense counsel considered appealing to the U. S. Supreme Court on an unindicated point of constitutional law, to the State Pardon Board for clemency, to State courts for another trial on grounds of new evidence...
Apparently reading TIME is conducive to petty larceny. . . . Pardon, grand larceny. I suppose this new breed of criminal starts out by making off with TIME, works up to FORTUNE and then runs away with the firm's funds and prettiest blonde...
Texas' rough-&-ready Governor James V. ("Jimmie") Allred, whose campaign promise of "no more pardon peddling" has been faithfully kept, nervously told of his latest nightmare: "I dreamed I was one of the condemned men and called for a secretary to prepare a proclamation commuting my sentence. But there was a question of whether I could sign it. Perhaps, I dreamed, the Lieutenant Governor in such a case would have to sign it. It worried me badly for I had only three minutes left to live. Then my secretary said she couldn't finish typing the proclamation in three minutes...