MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE
IN POTENTIALLY CAPITAL CASES (1987)
by Hugo Adam Bedau and Michael L. Radelet

Excerpt from Appendix A: Catalogue of Defendants

PENDER, JOHN (white). 1914. Oregon. After one hung jury, Pender was convicted on two counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death. Nine months later, after an outcry of public sympathy, the sentence was commuted to life by Governor West. In 1920, after a mental patient confessed to the crime and both trial judges appealed for clemency, Pender was pardoned by Governor Olcott.1

Footnote

1. See generally Bedau, Capital Punishment in Oregon, 1903-64, 45 OR. L. REV. 1, 24 n.96., at 33; Oregonian, Dec. 1, 1964, at 26, col. 4; id., Nov. 30, 1964, at 34, col. 3; id., Sept. 12, 1920, at 1, col. 8.