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...During both terms in office, Brown commuted 23 death sentences,
signing the first commutation on his second day in office. One of his
more notable commutations was the death sentence of Erwin
"Machine-Gun" Walker, whose execution in the gas chamber
for first-degree murder had been postponed because of an
attempted suicide some hours before it was scheduled to
take place. After Walker recovered, his execution was postponed while
he was being restored to mental competency. After Walker was declared
sane in 1961, Brown commuted Walker's death sentence to life without
the possibility of parole. Walker was later paroled after the
California Supreme Court held that Governor Brown could not legally
deny a prisoner the right to parole in a death-sentence commutation.
Another prisoner whose death sentence was commuted by Brown committed
at least one murder after being paroled.
While Governor, Brown's attitude
toward the death penalty was often ambivalent, if not arbitrary. An
ardent supporter of gun control, he was more inclined to let
convicts go to the gas chamber if they had killed with guns than with
other weapons. He later admitted that he had denied clemency in one
death penalty case principally because the legislator who represented
the district in which the murder occurred held a swing vote on
farmworker legislation supported by Brown, and had told Brown that
his district "would go up in smoke" if the governor
commuted the man's sentence.
In contrast, Governor Brown
approved 36 executions, including the highly controversial cases
of Caryl Chessman in 1960 and Elizabeth Duncan; she
was the last female put to death before a national moratorium was
instituted. Though he had supported the death penalty while serving
as district attorney, as Attorney General, and when first elected
Governor, he later became an opponent of it.
During
the Chessman case, Brown proposed that the death penalty be
abolished, but the proposal failed. His Republican successor, Ronald
Reagan, was a firm death penalty supporter and oversaw the last
execution in California in 1967, prior to the US Supreme Court ruling
that it was unconstitutional in Furman v. Georgia (1972).