Capital Punishment Hearings Ninety Second Congress Second Session
Capital Punishment Hearings Ninety Second Congress Second Session
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. , Chessman would talk about the feel- ings of torture that he experienced waiting for death. At times he felt that he could no longer tolerate the pain, the anxiety and the fear. At such times, he expressed a wish to get the suffering over with. "*' When Death Row inmates do fall into psychosis, they come under that strange doctrine of our law that an insane man cannot be executed. There have been many implausible attempts to explain this doctrine, which seems in no way justified by deterrent... or pre- ventive theories of capital punishment. Many believe that one Mississippi court gave the true explanation: the insane man has "lost awareness of his precarious situation", and therefore "amid the darkened mists of mental collapse, there is no light against which the shadows of death may be cast. It is revealed that if he were taken to the electric chair, he would not quail ... " (emphasis added). " The doctrine produces strange results. Henry McCracken, a con- demned sex murderer, fell into a "self-induced hypnotic condition caused by fear of his impending execution..
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. , Chessman would talk about the feel- ings of torture that he experienced waiting for death. At times he felt that he could no longer tolerate the pain, the anxiety and the fear. At such times, he expressed a wish to get the suffering over with. "*' When Death Row inmates do fall into psychosis, they come under that strange doctrine of our law that an insane man cannot be executed. There have been many implausible attempts to explain this doctrine, which seems in no way justified by deterrent... or pre- ventive theories of capital punishment. Many believe that one Mississippi court gave the true explanation: the insane man has "lost awareness of his precarious situation", and therefore "amid the darkened mists of mental collapse, there is no light against which the shadows of death may be cast. It is revealed that if he were taken to the electric chair, he would not quail ... " (emphasis added). " The doctrine produces strange results. Henry McCracken, a con- demned sex murderer, fell into a "self-induced hypnotic condition caused by fear of his impending execution..
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