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Knox takes issues with Addams's opposition to capital punishment, offering examples of English justice.

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The Tribune praises Governor Lowden's decision to allow Nicholas Viana to be executed and calls Addams's appeal sentimental.

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Addams defends her views on capital punishment, replying to a critical editorial.

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Addams argues against the death penalty for Nicholas Viana because he is a minor.

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Addams discusses the increasing rate of juvenile crime and the efforts to combat it at a meeting of the American Crime Study Commission.

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Also known as To all who still feel like humans, ca. March 1920

Misař describes political turmoil and oppression against Socialists and Jews in Hungary.

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Addams asks Hoover for clemency for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as a means of foreign-born Americans

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Hart tells the ACLU that the prisoners that they asked to be released have refused parole until other prisoners were freed.

Also known as De Longe, Jeanne (?-?) Also known as Wiley, Helen (?-?)

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Addams doubts that a girl held in the disappearance of Jeanne DeKay is the heiress.

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Addams tells the press that the woman pretending to be the missing DeKay is an adventuress.

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Newspaper story about the latest in the disappearance of Jeanne DeKay contains a short statement about the case by Addams.

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Addams protests the execution by hanging in front of 200 prisoners as savage.