Charles Townsend (murderer)
Charles Townsend (* around 1936) is an American convicted murderer .
Townsend was sentenced to death by the Cook County, Illinois criminal court in 1955 at the age of 19 for a 1953 robbery and murder of steel worker Jack Boone . He spent 19 years on death row . During this time, he filed nine pardon requests citing his drug addiction , each of which postponed his execution.
At the age of 38, he was pardoned and served between 14 and 50 years of imprisonment . His punishment was re-evaluated, the death penalty by a 1972 Supreme Court of the United States for unconstitutional explained.
Web links
- Charles TOWNSEND, petitioner, v. Frank G. SAIN, Sheriff of Cook County, et al. , Cornell University Law School .
- Charles E. Sheedy : Narcointerrogation of a Criminal Suspect. In: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology , Volume 50, No. 2, 1959, pp. 118-123.
- Townsend v. Sain and its aftermath. . In: Creighton Law Review , Volume 30, 1997, pp. 626-630.
Remarks
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| SURNAME | Townsend, Charles |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American justice victim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1936 |