(Two months later, Avery also denied the clemency appeals of York and Latham, who were hanged on June 22, 1965.) And so it happened that in the daylight hours of that Wednesday morning, Alvin Dewey, breakfasting in the coffee shop of a Topeka hotel, read, on the first page of the Kansas City Star, a headline he had long awaited:
(Handik bi hilabetetara, Averyk York eta Lathamen erruki eskaerei uko egin zien, eta 1965eko ekainaren 22an urkatu zituzten).