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Show GOVERNOR SPARES MAN STATE FORGOT It4 v- Charles Douthitt. Eight times Charles Douthitt, held In the death house of the Eddyville (Ky.) penitentiary, where murderers are executed, Baw men go to the electric elec-tric chair from "Death Row," where he was incarcerated while two governors gov-ernors declined to set a date for hh execution, finally passing the matter up to their successors. When Governor Gov-ernor Morrow took office January 1 last he had never heard of Douthitt, but on learning the facts in his caso commuted his sentence to life im- prisonment. I |