Electric Chair

(Original Caption) A Sinister Assistant. New York: Shown is the sinister-looking assistant to the equalizer, "Death", the electric chair in a United States prison. The controversy surrounding the execution for non-lethal crimes, of "Red Light Bandit", Caryl Chessman in California, and the sparing of the life of convicted killer, Paul Crump in Illinois, has stirred the coals of an old argument--whether the State has the right to exact the supreme penalty.
(Original Caption) A Sinister Assistant. New York: Shown is the sinister-looking assistant to the equalizer, "Death", the electric chair in a United States prison. The controversy surrounding the execution for non-lethal crimes, of "Red Light Bandit", Caryl Chessman in California, and the sparing of the life of convicted killer, Paul Crump in Illinois, has stirred the coals of an old argument--whether the State has the right to exact the supreme penalty.
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Bettmann / Contributor
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517262062
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Bettmann
Date created:
October 21, 1962
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