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...earlier case, in which a death sentence was upheld. Justice Black wrote a concurring opinion stating, "It is inconceivable to me that the Framers intended to end capital punishment by the [Eighth] Amendment." On the other hand, last week the court saved 39 prisoners from execution, including Richard Speck, who killed eight student nurses in Chicago in 1966. The convictions of the 39 were not affected, but the sentences were set aside on the basis of a 1968 decision which held imposition of death unconstitutional if opponents of capital punishment had been automatically excluded from the jury...
...more gruesome mass murders of the recent American past: the 1966 killing of 16 by Charles Whitman, the University of Texas tower sniper; the gunning down of 13 people in Camden, N.J., by berserk Howard Unruh in 1949; the murder of eight student nurses in Chicago by Richard Speck five years ago. The Yuba City murders, like the 1969 Sharon Tate killings, had a special dimension of monstrosity. The murders were apparently executed systematically over a two-month period, so it was not simply a matter of a man gone suddenly berserk. Sheriff Whiteaker said of Corona: "We are sure...
...Speck described a "profound change" of mood on university campuses in the last two years. "Two years ago in a community college, I would get a smattering of hand claps, then a deluge of hostile questions. Now it's hard to get anyone to even present the opposite point of view." Rarely invited to a Southern school two years ago, he has now spoken in every state in the South where even his expressions of support for the Panthers are applauded...
Died. Harry Romanoff, eightyish, one of the last of Chicago's Front Page-style reporters; in Chicago. "Romy" became famous for the telephone impersonations that often enabled him to scoop rivals without ever leaving the city room. Consider his coverage of the 1966 Speck murder case: as soon as he heard the news, he called the house where the eight nurses had lived, identified himself as the coroner, and pumped a cop on the scene for all details-minutes before the real coroner appeared...
Where in the beginning there was not even a speck of dust...