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} YM ) . ‘ores to Deloach memo 4-29-60 re: The Death Penalty and Caryl Chessman . sun because he knew that if he killed a man in that state his only punishment 179 ail. In Canada, however, he always used an unloaded gun because he had a stro lesire to stay alive and did not want to risk killing anyone. : Dr. Austin McCormick, criminologist.at the University of Cal-foraia, roints out that many criminals carry toy guns in robberies so that they won't kill © wnyone. He says that no one can tell what a criminal thinks but merely has to be suided by what he says. ey . 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. E2 ,oints out that many are serving life terms in San Quentin for crimes equally cs sé, 1s those for which others have paid-with their lives. Fred Dixon, describedas > uccessor at San Quentin, points out that only the poor and ignorant people ar out whom'no one cares, usually minority groups, are executed. He states th as its advantages. »Warden Duffy then recounted a story of m execution in the e vhen the Governor granted a reprieve on the basis of new evidence at tne very he execution. Word of this reprieve was received at the prison tolate. Duiiy in: hat an innocent man may. have died. He concludes by stating that a vast change has taken vlace in Chessman in 15 years. : icus The remainder of the program concerns itself with the reaction to the Chessman case throughout the world. A CBS reporter in London s*ates that on his irrival 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 ina: execution of Chessman, according to the thinking abroad, would be the final cutrase o: wtrageous case and that what happens to Chessman will be the responsibility of evex American. A British Member of Parliament then states that he fails to uncerstan ‘America can keep one man under sentence of death for so long a period. He feels i.. = ZDhessman must be a different man and should be spared. : ’ The narrator concludes the program by stating that whatever the uwiiimate: decision is regarding Chessman, capital punishment is the large issue and thet Caryl Chessman has been a symbol of the dramatic quality of that issue. ~ . From 950 p.m. to 10 p.m. WTOP presented a briot discussi “Capital Punishment - The District Issue." This program was handled by ¢ OBS. U. S. Attorney Oliver Gasch cited statistics on recent first cegree m indictmentSin the District and pointed. out that of 104 such indictments only ons guilty and electrocuted. Sutton pointed out that in the District conviction for first aos,