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1 Wesley Robert Wells, The Facts of My Case, Written from the Death House [1] (1953)

handle is hein.death/facsdh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE FACTS OF MY CASE Written from the Death House Wesley Robert Wells P. 0. Box#24155-A San Quentin, California Dear Friend, I am a condemned prisoner on death row at San Quentin. I have spent six years here among the living dead. I wonder if you, or anyone else, can understand and appreciate just what those six, long, miserable years have been like. I am 44 years of age. I have been in prison since I was 19 with only a few months in the free world outside in 1941. I am awaiting execution for throwing and hitting a prison guard with a cuspidor. Here's how it happend. Dr. Day, the prison doctor, came by with another doctor. They examined me and told the guards to get me out of solitary- -that I was sick and needed treatment and was abnormal from fear and tension. In- stead of the treatment, they put me on trial before a prison court for talking back to a guard. I cracked up, and when they were clubbing me, I threw the cuspidor. I make no pretension of having been a model prisoner during the many years I've spent in prison. I've been forced to fight with every means available for survival. I have scars on my person .~ ~ that I will take to my grave that will testify to some of the brutal treatment The Purpose Of I've received at the hands of my prison I This Letter Is keepers and inmates who were egged on To Give You The Facts On One Of Though only 19 when I first entered pris- The Most Amazing on, even then, I had--and still have--a Stories In The strong sense of justice. I didn't then, I nor do I today, believe that the mere History Of pigmentation of my skin made me inferior California's to any man, justifying treating me with less consideration or respect than those who happened to be of different pigmenta- tion of skin.

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