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Petitions poured into the office of Gov. Edmund “Pat” Brown, a Democrat who believed Chessman guilty but abhorred the death penalty on religious grounds.

He added, though, “I very much abhorred Jan. 6. There’s no cause for violence.”

He was also a silver-tongued intellectual who abhorred boorish thinking and behavior and savored debates with the sharpest minds of his era.

Senators, Sandvine later announced that it would no longer work with Belarus, saying that it abhorred “the use of technology to suppress the free flow of information resulting in human rights violations.”

Israeli leaders have achieved their expansionist goals in the West Bank by carrying out widely abhorred policies illegal under international law.