Death penalty tentatively approved
Wednesday, February 27, 1980
From Kansan Staff and Wire Reports
From Kansan Staff and Wire Reports
TO PEDKA - The Kansas house yesterday
signed a deal to establish a proposal,
ignoring statements by Gov. John
Carlin that he would vet any capital
Last year, Carlin vetoed the first death penalty bill passed by the Legislature since the capital punishment law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972.
The bill, amended from a measure calling for the imposition of a 30-year mandatory sentence for murder, passed the House at 714-74. Final action is expected today.
Debate on the amended bill drew cries of "hoax" from death penalty foes and some proponents of the 30-year mandatory sentence.
Proponents of the mandatory sentence were upset because their proposal can only be passed this session if the bill approved by the Senate had been back to its original form in the Senate.
Carlin has said he would approve a mandatory 30-year sentence considered by some death penalty supporters as a logical compromise.
THE PROPOSAL tentatively approved yesterday would impose the death penalty in seven specific cases of murder and in all cases of premeditated murder.
If differs from the one that made it to the governor's desk last year which would have imposed the death penalty for all murders in your workplace during the commission of a felony.
The amendment, proposed by Rep. Robert Frey, R-Relational, would impose the death penalty for cases of murder committed by someone who was hired, multiple murder, murder of a witness, murder in the commission of kidnapping, during a rape or in murder.
State Rep. Jack Rodrock, D-Leoti, added premedicated murder to the bill's list of crimes punishable by death.
Several polls have shown that Kansans heavily favor canal punishment.
"The amendment provides a means whereby we can, as responsible legislators, give the people of Kansas legislation that is responsible and that is constituted." Prey
"The people in Kansas want us to reinstate capital punishment," Frey continued. "There is very little doubt of that fact."
State Rep John Vogel, R-Lawrence, was charged with obstructing a bill. Vogel said he was personally opposed to the death penalty, but voted for capital punishment because of the views of his peers.
Tentative approval of the bill followed wide-ranging debate that included contentious issues, such as the year minimum sentences for the most serious crimes in lieu of capital punishment, and the extension of life imprisonment.
FREY'S PROPOSAL makes the House proposal identical to a bill awaiting action in the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
State Sen. Ed Reilly, chairman of the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee said his committee would probably recommend a ban within 10 days if it was passed by the House.
Senators had not considered their own capital punishment bill because they were waiting to see what the House would do, Reilly said.
He predicted that if the Senate takes up the House bill, it will probably remove the premeditated provision from the bill.
Area farmers can expect low prices for their crops, high costs in producing these crops, and little financial support from the government. Agricultural experts predicted yesterday.
Should those predictions come true, Americans can expect drastic measures from desperate farmers; more serious than frustrated farmers; more frustrated farmers a year ago in Washington, D.C., Lee Scheueller, Kansas University, said. A movement, said yesterday in Topela.
Money woes predicted for area farmers
Established two years ago, the AAM formed when a group of farmers became disenchanted with the work of the national land agency and met a group of only agriculture-related members. They had criticized the Bureau for its large number of non-agriculture
"We had to change things, to draw attention to the problems," Scheufer said.
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The 28-year Scheller criticized a farm bill passed in 1977 and backed by the Bureau because it set the price per bushel of grain at least than the cost of production.
The price paid for a bushel of wheat was $1.80 per bushel. The cost of production was
"As the farmer goes so goes the nation. Farmers have absorbed losses and hung on by borrowed capital, but we're in trouble."
The possibility of an agricultural crisis was echoed by Roy Laird, KU professor of political science, who said the ability of the farmer to absorb rising costs had reached
Based on figures from a handbook distributed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Laird calculated prices paid in production in the first seven years of the 1970s.
The prices paid by farmers rose 80 percent in a year, after said the prices received by farmers increased only 60 percent over that same period, putting them in an economic downturn.
$3 per bushel, and the loan rate was $2. That was unacceptable."
IN THE PAST, farmers were able to absorb these costs by improving their efficiency and increasing their volume of production, but this is no longer possible, he
The U.S. grain embargo against the Soviet Union is hungure American farmers, Laird
Scheueller said that the pressure of the embargo, enforced by President Carter, has put a stranglehold on the farmer, and is forcing government entry into the marketplace.
said, by destroying the grain market and by lowering prices.
SCHUELFHEER SAID the government uses its farm products to shore up the domestic economy in bad times and as a bargaining lever in foreign policy and then expects the farmers to supply the world's food reserves. The government also stands against the farmer as a price depressant.
"The United States uses food as a political weapon and the farmer is always the one who gets hurt by it," he said.
"If farmers are to produce, we must receive a parity price." Scalhee said. "We are supportive of taxation that would return us to an equitable situation."
Although he agreed that critical times face farmers in the coming year, Waitt was not alone. The County Farm Bureau Association, questioned the severity of Scheuer's failure.
But Thome also said the grain embargo could have long-range effects as the earlier embargo in the 1970s did.
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