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2 unusual facts about Paul Crump


Paul Crump

His four accomplices received prison sentences, but Crump was sentenced to die in the electric chair and had 15 execution dates before Louis Nizer took on his case and the sentence was commuted to 199 years by Gov. Otto Kerner.

William Friedkin produced and directed a documentary for television in 1962, titled The People vs. Paul Crump when Crump had been on death row for nine years.



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