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Preparation was the point most strongly stressed. He cited the time he was caught short and had to spend an hour and a half reading the penal code an Homicide to the jury. "It was the most fluent, deliberate rendition that thing had ever received," commented Geisler...
Governor James E. Folsom, in no kissin' mood, sued the Reader's Digest for $1,000,000 on the ground that an article on the Alabama penal system called "Devil's Island, U.S.A." was a libel on him and "on the people of Alabama...
...spite of a federal law making hoarding a penal offense...
...freight train at Paint Rock, Ala., accused of raping two white girls who turned out to be common tramps. It carried him past the shadow of the electric chair three times, through the highest courts of the land and deep into the hard, rotten heart of the Alabama penal system. But in July 1948, Haywood Patterson finally made it. He escaped from Alabama's Kilby prison, crossed the Mason-Dixon line and hid out, a fugitive, an almost forgotten speck on the national conscience-the eighth of the Scottsboro Boys to get out of jail...
Next week the State Legislature will get a chance to bring the penal code up to date. The Friends of Framingham Reformatory, formed originally to help Dr. Miriam Van Waters in the smear campaign against her, have introduced a bill to change some of the present archaic statutes and to bring them in line with modern sociological knowledge...