BRIGANCE, Thomas blog WHITSON, Benjamin Uy eee
Brigance, a 29-year-old white man and his wife's 26-year-old brother,
Whitson, robbed an Uhé##L Emeryville, Calif., card club on the night
of March 8, 19). When they were making their eecape, they were in-
tercepted by a 55-year-old special police officer, George Haas, who
they shot and killede Both men were convicted of the crime and sen=
tenced to hang, but they claimed that their arrest was a case of mis-
taken identify and their appeals were taken to the United States Su-
preme Court which refused to intervene. They were both asphyxiated
at San Quentin on Sept. 1h, 195. Neither slept the night before
their executions, Brigance playing checkers with the prison chaplain
all night and Whitson nervously smoking Clgars, playing solitaire
and listening to the radio, but both met their deaths calmly, de-
clining blindfolds when seated in the execution chamber,
THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE, Oakland, Calif., 9-l\-19)5.
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BRIGANCE, Thomas and WHITSON, Benjamin Py ee
Brigancey a 29-year-old white man and his wife's 26-year-old brother,
Whitson, robbed an MRK Emeryville, Calif., card club on the night
of March 8, 19). When they were making their escape, they were in-
tercepted by a 55-year-old special police officer, George Haas, who
they shot and killed. Both men were convicted of the crime and sen-
tenced to hang, but they claimed that their arrest was a case of mis-
taken identify and their appeals were taken to the United States Su-
preme Court which refused to intervene. They were both asphyxiated
at San Quentin on Sept. 1h, 195. Neither slept the night before
their executions, Brigance playing checkers with the prison chaplain
all night and Whitson nervously smoking cigars, playing solitaire
and listening to the radio, but both met their deaths calmly, de-
clining blindfolds when seated in the execution chamber,
THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE, Oakland, Galif., 9-1-19))5.
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tenced to hang, but they claimed that thelr arrest was
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