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...eyes of opposing Assistant State's Attorney James Thompson with the eloquence of his plea that Crump be spared because he was "a rehabilitated man, a newborn man, a transformed personality." Nizer read from 57 affidavits attesting to Crump's change of character, including one from the warden−the culmination of a massive public drive by columnists, clergymen and penologists to establish the principle that prison can reform a killer, and that when it does he should...
...always so. When Crump first entered the antiquated, overcrowded county jail, he was described as "savage" and "animalistic," helped instigate a riot himself. But under the guiding hand of beefy, reform-minded Warden Johnson, 44, Crump gradually began to come round. He read voraciously, boned up on law, philosophy, sociology and the Bible (he is a convert to Catholicism). Today Paul Crump reigns as "barn boss" of a cell-block tier housing sick and problem convicts, works long hours administering to their needs. In his tiny cell, cluttered with books and manuscripts, he writes poetry, spices his correspondence with quotes...
Nearly the entire staff of Crump's prison is marshaled behind the mounting save-Crump crusade, including the warden, the guards, the doctors, nurses, social workers and psychiatrists. Illinois Governor Otto Kerner has been besieged by requests for clemency from the likes of Billy Graham, Father Charles Dismas Clark (the "hoodlum priest"), state representatives, the former warden of San Quentin prison, the former county sheriff, a host of lawyers, sociologists and teachers. Two Chicago dailies, the American and the News, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, have weighed in with strong editorial support for mercy. A Chicago TV station...
...Governor, on an argument virtually without precedent in legal history: Crump's rehabilitation. Among the 60 persons who have given more than 200 pages of glowing testimony about Crump is Prison Guard Jack Fahey, whose life Crump saved by disarming an inmate during an escape attempt, and Warden Jack Johnson, a Crump admirer, who says that executing Crump "would be committing capital vengeance, not punishment...
...restricts its membership to graduate students specializing in political science and modern history. Its Warlen--a friend, appropriately enough, of Churchill's,--is W. Deakin, whose reports on the Jugoslav partisans of the war helped substantially to convince the British to hit their support to Tito; its sub-Warden (a sort of Senior Tutor) is James Joll, the ruddy, fluent, enormously charming visiting lecturer who taught Franklin Ford's course on German history this Spring...