{"id":374,"date":"2010-08-07T01:27:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T01:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/"},"modified":"2020-10-14T03:52:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T11:52:35","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Executing Abbott: 50 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50 years ago, the criminal justice system was both the same and very different. The Burton Abbott <a href=\"https:\/\/idealica.me\/es\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none;color:#333\">idealica.me\/es<\/a>\t case is one of the best examples of this contrast &#8211; or lack thereof. Abbott was tried, convicted and executed for kidnapping and killing Stephanie Bryan, a 14-year-old girl from Berkeley. He died in San Quentin&#8217;s gas chamber on March 15, 1957, nearly two years after Bryan&#8217;s disappearance. Today, the average wait on death row is more than 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The role of the media has also changed. In the 1950s, newspapers were the main source of news. Two San Francisco Examiner reporters organized the team that discovered Bryan&#8217;s body. They broke the news to her parents and published graveside photographs. The paper published headlines nearly <a href=\"https:\/\/idealica.me\/pl\/\" style=\"text-decoration: none;color:#333\">idealica.me\/pl<\/a> every day for two years and gave major developments three to five full pages. When Abbott&#8217;s trial began, the Examiner even hired a detective novelist to add to its coverage.<\/p>\n<p>It was a different era. See for yourself: Explore the Abbott case through the Examiner&#8217;s photo archive and newspaper articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 50 years ago, the criminal justice system was both the same and very different. Go back in time and see this through one notorious case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":509,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-bancroft-main.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-374","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6050,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/374\/revisions\/6050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/berkeley.news21.com\/behindbars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}