Clemency Letter Quotes

“Dear Governor Whitman, … Our father is not a simple criminal. … He was harassed by more ideas than his mind could stand. …”
― Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini, Antonio's Will

“On Thanksgiving Day, during our family gathering, we pray you to have mercy on Antonio Pontón …”
― Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini, Antonio's Will

“The Porto Ricans at Harvard University believe that the crime was a horrible one and it should be punished, but death penalty would add to, and not detract from, its horrors,” the Harvard students wrote. One of the student signatures on the letter was by Pedro Albizu y Campos who would later become a Puerto Rican promoter of ideals for the island’s independence from the United States.”
― Yasmin Tirado-Chiodini, Antonio's Will