Word: scottshoro
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...year and three months since the nine Scottshoro boys were put in the Death House in Birmingham to await electrocution after an obvious mistrial. In that time the case has been reviewed by the supreme Court of Alabama and finally by the United States Supreme Court. All the latter could do, although if found the trial unfair, was to order retrial in the same court and probably under mach the same conditions...
...plays the coercive part, should not decide their life or death. There seems to be something wrong with the system of laws which confines the decision of capital punishment to small districts, liable to unified prejudice or emotion. How many trials have been similar to this one at Scottshoro, it would be impossible to say. In this case it is almost matter of accident that the international Labor Defence got interested in it, otherwise the death sentence would have been carried out unquestioned...
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