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Te ve Lo, CH. og *allghot rrr ea es TAP he oe ‘Chessinan—and Victiw—>, My ries 1 There are two grounds upon whichi---" 0) ‘ J iS nClabis ~ * valid objection might be raised to the hosen Se | execution of Caryl Chessman. XL “<Tamm — —_ ’ One wolild be taf there was a sub- ~ a j Trotter - Me _ | stantial doubt as to his guilt, a doubt 4 w W.c. S which we do not think was present in his _~ __. ° case. The other, of course; would bea. . YY Tele. Room conscientious objection to capital pun-. — fog XX Ingram ishment~—an objection which would ap- _.. ‘7 i. an 1 Gandy ~ ply equally. tg all cases no matter how j fe . clear the guilt or how heinous the crime. LC . tht, Neither ‘of these considerations has Lee are a so been stressed in most of the mawkish ao Ly nonsense written about the Chessman. + a] yee . case. For example, the foreign press, ai ip eee ‘possibly with an eye to the sale of pa- oe pers, has harped on the 12 years of “indescribable mental agony” to which a, -- Chessman has been subjected. What is a. ipd / x “a never mentioned is the fact that Chess- bg f wv aa & f —_ . man and his resourceful lawyers were ; , eae a \ | responsible for this 12-year delay. The | ° ; availed themselves of every opportunity, e every technicality, for appeals and stay, . . -+ of execution. Of course they wer / a within their ‘rights in doing this. But LL - , why should, American justice be damnec ae “by critics af home and abroad because a it gives a condemned man every op- VV iid. aie . portunity under the law to plead his uz L-3, roa case? We cannot help but think that ; ‘most of the criticism has been the prod- Ayn uct either of a monumental ignorance of ¢ po “hy i ; the facts or of a sinister readiness to ty | fa . : seize upon any propaganda weapon if . orn ve an 1 it can be wsed to belabor the United \ ees a . States. °° . . _ i The Washington Post and Times Herald Finally, why has so little been wrib- ; . ten about the victims of this man’s per- , verted crimes; why so much concern for ¢. j aryl Chessman, so little for the people | “whose lives he ruined? In all of the i frenzied chatter in Chessman’s behalf, ¥ ‘we have see not one werd of compas- sibn for the girl, 17 at the time, who Wap ove of his victims. As a result of F: i The Washington Daily News The Evening Star . New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror yy ee Qaily NG t— we Post The New York Times —_—__-_-—_ The Worker —____ —s f d#eadful experience she has spent iy ars in a mental institution, and s ie oe eee ow meen eal may spend the rest of her life there. - Lik cee a eh NETL —<— on te fe oy Ane Wall Street Joumal : : : Date 4 a , 3+ MAY Po 238 KEG: 72, “ie 1960 50 JUN -8 188" a Re