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a : ~ a” ‘ores to Noy.oach memo 4-29-60 re: The Death Penalty and Caryl Chessman ; tun because he knew that if he killed ; a man in that state his only. punishment wov.t oc “| ail. In Canada, however, he always used an unloaded gun because he hag a strong | lesire to stay alive and did not want: to risk killing anyone. . . 7 Dr. Austin McCormick, criminologist at the University of Calitoraia, »Gints out that many criminals carry toy guns in robberies so that they won't kill mnyone. He says that no one can tell what a criminal thinks but merely has to be suided by what he says. A Clinton P. Duffy, former San Quentin Warden, states he does not believe ‘n the death: penalty since it is responsible for much of the inequality in justice. E32 “oints out that_ many are serving life terms in San Quentin for crimes equally as sexicus 1s those for which others have paid-with their lives. Fred Dixon, described as Dulty's uccessor at San Quentin, points out that only the poor and ignorant people anc those Roth bel MOAT vy Sout whom'no one cares, usually minority groups, are executed. He states isac rm: as its advantages. «Warden Duffy then recounted a story ofm execution int he early .oots vhen the Governor granted a reprieve on the basis of new evidence at the very miinute of he execution. Word of this reprieve was received at the prison tolate. Duffy in-ers..- hat an innocent man may. have died, He concludes by stating that a vast change has taken vwlace in Chessman in 15 years. The remainder of the program concerns itself with the reaction io tne cShessman case throughout the world. A CBS reporter in London s*tates that on his arrival there a cab driver asked him “How can you kill Carl Chester citer 12 years?" le points out that he found a similar reaction everywhere he went. He says that the sxecution of Chessman, according to the thinking abroad, would be the final cutrase ox an! wutrageous case and that what happens to Chessman will be the resnonsibilit; of every American. A British Member of Parliament then states that he fails to uncerstanc 2OW. America can keep one man under sentence of death for so long a Period. He feels iu. * chessman must be a different man and should be spared. ; ’ The narrator concludes the program by stating that whatever th he ultimate . decision is regarding Chessman, capital punishment is the large issue and that Caryl Chessman has been a symbol of the dramatic quality oi that issue. From 9,50 p.m. to 10 p.m. WTOP presented a briof discussion entitloc "Capital Punishment - The District Issue.'' This program was handled by 5 0: t Sucton of 2BS. U. S. Attorney Oliver Gasch cited statistics on recent first cegree murcex . indictmentSin the District and pointed out that of 104 such indictments only one w. = ror d guilty and electrocuted. Sutton pointed out that in the District conviction fox first aobses