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I also agree. He got an extra dozen years of life he didn't deserve. We were finally put out of his misery on my eighteenth birthday. I abhor songs that glamorize killers. I intentionally keep them out of my 4000 song "Jukebox." There are many better unsung people to celebrate.
EarlyOldies 7 months ago
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h777 10 months ago
There are better death penalty martyrs than this
arrogant punk. The evidence against him for a 3-4 day crime spree was massive, completely consistent with his prior crimes. According to his warden, fellow inmates detested him for vicious behavior. He stabbed an inmate in the face with a pencil arguing over how to decorate an X-mas tree, never showed remorse for his crimes. Executing him was a very small injustice, if any at all.
sportshistorybuff 1 year ago
@sportshistorybuff AMEN I agree both his parents were kind and honest Chessman was a smug arrogant deviant who hurt and robbed the innocent for personal gain He is NO role model
laurence132 1 year ago
Jim Minor was approached by Art Talmadge of Mercury records in 1960 and Art wanted a song about Chessman. Jim wrote DEATH ROW and it was released in the Spring of 1960 by Mercury Records. The song was played on the radio some but for most it had to of a morbid title to it for DJs to play. When Chessman was executed in 1960 the song kinda died with it. Marlon Brando approached Art and wanted a song for one of his movies but that never happened.
razorbackman1 1 year ago
I believe he was innocent. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence ONLY, based on the testimony of two policeman. They teach his case in law schools all over the country.
razorbackman1 1 year ago
@soifdesavoir check out "cell 2455 death row" chessman's autobiography and "when you read this, they will have killed me." from what i've read it looks like chessman could have very likely been innocent. he certainly didn't deserve the death penalty.
mbdfilms 1 year ago
@mbdfilms No one does. There is no justification for killing, even by the state.
orson15 1 month ago
was chessman innocent?
soifdesavoir 1 year ago
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Jim Minor owned Colt "45" Records of Flint, MI 1959. Artists on the label were: Connie Dycus, Eddie and Don, Paul and Larry and Donna Chrysler. Jim also owned the Western Chuck Wagon Record label of Flint, MI 1955 which put out a record by Lonnie Barron and the Farm Boys. Jim Minor published Conway Twitty, Narvel Felts, Jimmy Edwards, Connie Dycus and Vada Belle through Mercury Records all in the 1950s. Jim played on the Grand Ole Opry Oct. 1961
razorbackman1 1 year ago