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The Daily Alaska Empire
Juneau, Juneau County, Alaska
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Vuco Perovich, convicted of murder in Fairbanks and sentenced to hang, had his sentence commuted to life by President Taft. He challenged the commutation, winning release from a Kansas court in 1925, but the U.S. Supreme Court overruled it. Pardoned by President Coolidge, he now plans to dramatize his life in cinema while operating a barber shop in Syracuse, N.Y.
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According to Time, the "weekly news magazine," Vuco Perovich, who was convicted of murder at Fairbanks and sentenced to be hanged by Judge Wickersham, but whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by President Taft and who was recently pardoned by President Coolidge, will dramatize his life history through the cinema for the benefit of posterity and, incidentally, for such shekels as might come his way. Perovich attracted attention when he alleged that President Taft had invaded his constitutional rights when he commuted the sentence, declaring that he would rather be hanged than to spend his life in prison, and the President deprived him of his right to death. A Kansas court upheld the contention of the prisoner and released him in 1925 under a writ of habeas corpus. The other day, however, the United States Supreme Court over-ruled the Kansas decision and, had President Coolidge not intervened with a pardon, Perovich would have gone back to the penitentiary. He has been conducting a barber shop at Syracuse, N. Y., for two years.
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Fairbanks, Alaska; Syracuse, N. Y.
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1925
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Vuco Perovich was convicted of murder in Fairbanks and sentenced to hang by Judge Wickersham, but President Taft commuted it to life imprisonment. Perovich challenged the commutation as violating his rights, preferring death over life in prison. A Kansas court released him in 1925 via habeas corpus, but the U.S. Supreme Court overruled it. President Coolidge pardoned him, allowing him to avoid prison and plan a cinematic dramatization of his life while running a barber shop in Syracuse.