Nov 01, 2001 - Sale 1912

Sale 1912 - Lot 50

Price Realized: $ 316
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
CHAVEZ, CESAR. Typed Letter Signed, to Elliott Kraemer, giving his views on capital punishment. 1 page, single 4to sheet, United Farm Workers of America stationery; stains in bottom margin not affecting text or signature.<\t>Keene, 17 November 1976

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". . . It is our deepest belief that life is a very precious thing, given to man by God, and no one has the right to take it for any reason. It is a terrible thing for an individual to take the life of another. And that individual must answer for his deed for the rest of his life. But when the state, acting deliberately in the name of all the people, takes a life, that is an even more heinous act . . ."<