Thursday, November 30, 1961 University Daily Kansan
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Death, Prison or Acquittal?
Eichmann Verdict Next Month
By Eliav Simon United Press International
JERUSALEM (UPI) — A three-judge Israeli court will reconvene early in December to deliver its verdict in the case of Adolph Eichmann, charged with crimes against the Jewish people and against humanity for the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
It is expected to take three days for the judges, reading in relays, to present their decision on each of the 15 counts against the former Gestapo officer. Twelve counts carry a possible death penalty on conviction.
THROUGH THE READING, Eichmann, who was for 15 years a fugitive, will be seated again in the same bullet-proof glass box he occupied during five months of trial sessions which ended Aug. 15.
Because of the unusual conditions of this extraordinary trial, a small group of men and women will learn the verdict in advance of the defendant. The translators, charged with rendering the 250-page decision in English, French, Spanish and German before the court meets, will be held under heavy police guard in a local hotel for the several days required to complete their work.
EICIMANN will be returned to his cell in the improvised Jerusalem court building from Jalami prison near Haifa.
The court decision will be by majority vote of the three judges on each of the 15 counts; each count will be reviewed and the verdict announced separately, with a dissenting judge making any explanation of his decision he desires.
POSSIBLE VERDICTS include acquittal on all counts; a guilty verdict on a lesser count, which might carry a possible maximum sentence of 20 years imprisonment; or a guilty verdict on one or more major counts.
which could result in a sentence of death.
In event of acquittal, the attorney general and chief prosecutor, Gideon Hausner, may ask a retrial. If his request is granted, Eichman would be free, but forced to remain in Israel, until it begins. He may ask for, and will receive, police protection, according to Deputy State's Attorney Gideon Hasid.
If the verdict is guilty, Hauser is expected to request the death penalty. Eichmann's attorney, Dr. Robert Servatius, presumably would reply with a plea for mercy and may ask to call new witnesses or offer evidence in mitigation.
SENTENCE PROBABLY would be handed down a day after completion of the defense plea.
Eichmann has a right of appeal to a five-man panel of Supreme Court Judges.
Most Israelis believe Eichmann will be sentenced to death by hanging. No such penalty has been carried out since the establishment of the state in 1954; it does not exist except for treason or collaboration with the Nazis, and there is no hangman in Israel.
HASID SAID the executioner, if needed, probably would be brought from abroad and his identity kept secret. He said letters have been received from persons volunteering for the job. The last came from a man in Rhodesia who is not a Jew.
However the trial ends, the verdict and sentence will seem an anti-climax to many Israelis, who believe the trial itself served their purpose
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by bringing the horrors of the Nazi period to the world's view.
The prosecution sought to prove Eichmann was the master hand behind Nazi policy to destroy the Jews. The defense attempted to prove he was merely "a transportation officer," a small cog in the machinery of death.
"No matter what happens to Eichmann," said a woman whose family was slaughtered at Auschwitz, "nothing can ever avenge what they did to us."
By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls. — John Galsworthy
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