I figured it was a bloody Mary type of thing you didn't want to repeat it three times in front of a mirror.

no, nothing like the Candyman thing..... 😟

Sammy Davis Jr?

I think you have to sing Candyman three times in da mirror to get him to appear... 😟

Look, I miss Sammy...but only if Dino and Frank are around.

sammy had lots of eyeballs

Hmmmm.........

"i'm either against capital punishment or the way we dramatize it."



Well, which is it?

:-k

I'm struck by two things in the original post in this thread ...

One, Caryl Chessman was never accused of killing anyone ... he was convicted and executed for a non-lethal kidnapping ...

Two. Ronald Reagan may have gone to the theatre on the night of the execution, but he was not the Governor of California at the time, nor would he be until 7 years in the future ... the Gov at the time was Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, father of the current CA Gov and he was also a Dem, not a Repub ... Gerry Brown has said he plead with his father to commute the sentence and that it was this case, as much as anything else, that made him an opponent of capital punishment ...

I sure did like Rickamaven and I will sorely miss our spirited debates ... trying to imagine his response to this post I'm making will make me smile this afternoon ...