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...Tallahassee, Fla. Gerald 0. Steele, convict, serving 15 years on the chain gang, was informed that his sentence had been reduced to five years because he had written to the Pardon Board and Governor Dave Sholtz praising the chain gang system...
...sentence to life imprisonment. Last year Prisoner Menafee was released from Atlanta penitentiary on a writ of habeas corpus, only to be returned when a Federal court changed its mind. Again, last week the only person who could save Gus Menafee was Franklin Roosevelt with an executive pardon...
...declared: "This is the best lesson California has ever given the country. We show the country that the State is not going to tolerate kidnap ping. "I don't think they will arrest anyone for the lynchings. If anyone is arrested for the good job, I'll pardon them all. Why should I call out troops to protect those two fellows...
...administrator were taxed to the utmost when running a city government and are hopelessly inadequate to the complicated job of manipulating the machinery of a state. Though his term contains one bright gem which made him nationally known--the unconditional refusal of Tom Mooney's petition for a pardon--the remainder has been incompetent and drab. Sunny Jim has been a confused and bewildered man since he entered office, and on this occasion he quite lost his head and reverted to his natural impulses as an American, in the process espousing the thinness of his cultural veneer...
...killers and underworld rabble. Fortune's fool was there too, a murderer named Boyer who was to have been executed the morning after an assassin killed France's President Paul Doumer (TIME, May 16, 1932). On the technicality that Boyer thus lost his last-minute chance of pardon, his sentence was automatically commuted to life imprisonment...