University Daily Kansan
Monday, February 13, 1978
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Legislature to debate death penalty, pot bill
TOPEKA (UPI1)—The Kansas Senate this week will consider a House-approved bill to make the death penalty an option for persons convicted of first-degree murder.
The bill was narrowly approved in the House Jan. 19 and is expected to meet a stiff fight in the Senate, where it probably will be defeated. But the fate of the bill looks good if the bill passes the Senate and goes to the governor's desk. Gov. Robert F. Bennett has said that the governor should approve it.
A Senate committee this week will consider bills to lessen penalties for the possession of marijuana and ones to provide financial compensation to the families of two slain park rangertees and a 5-year-old girl killed by a state mental hospital patient.
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Indications are that the Senate Federal Affairs Committee will pass the bill reducing penalties for possession of marijuana. The bill is to be discussed today.
The measure was approved by the House last year, but did not pass the Senate. The bill would make the first conviction of possession of one ounce or less an unclassified misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $100.
The reparations bill would establish a state-financed program to provide up to $10,000 to victims of crime or their dependents who suffer injury or death as a result of criminal acts. A special board would review each claim and decide how much should be awarded for such things as medical expenses, loss of salary and funeral costs.
THE THREE CLAIMS for families of the slain park rangerettes and the 5-year-old girl were taken out of a bill sent to the governor's desk last week. Legislators were charged with violating the controversial awards by the state, would not pass if the three claims were included in it.
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Six passengers and a flight attendant, seated in the plane's tail section, survived and were taken to Cranbrook District Two were in critical condition yesterday.
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Kees Fransberger, the air-lieu's assistant vice president for flight operations, said investigators did not know how or why the aircraft was runway in the path of the incoming itinerary.
GRANBROOK, British Coubia (AP)—The pilot of a jet-liner that crashed in flames while trying to land in a snow-storm probably was trying to avoid hitting a snowblow on the runway, Pacific Western Airlines said Monday. Party-one persons died in the crash.
Canadian crash kills 41; plow suspected cause
Brian Johnson, the airline's information director, said he was not sure whether the radio controller at Cranbrook had an unobstructed view of the entire runway.
The twin-engine Pacific Western Boeing 737 overturned the runway, slammed into a snowbank and broke apart Saturday. Seven aboard survived. One of the dead was an infant who was not known to be aboard until the body was found yesterday.
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