University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 22, 1992
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Death penalty laws cannot reach Manson
The Associated Press
CORCORAN, Calif. — Charles Manson, mastermind of one of the nation's most infamous mass murders, had a date with the parole board yesterday, the same day as California's first execution in a quarter century.
Manson originally was sentenced to die in the state's gas chamber for the grisly 1969 slayings of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and eight others
in Los Angeles.
But the state Supreme Court threw out the death penalty law in effect then, leaving Manson with the only alternative, life in prison with possible parole.
The law under which Harris was convicted allows juries to recommend life in prison without possible parole, and the defendant is available at the time of Manson's trial.
The execution yesterday of Robert Alton Harris, convicted under a new death-penalty of murdering two teen-agers in San Diego, was the first in California since 1967, two years before Manson's killing spree.
Supporters of capital punishment say that the possibility of parole for someone as notorious as Manson is a reason to keep the death penalty.
Manson, now 57, was convicted of ordering his hipple followers to commit the murders. Authorities said he was attempting to trigger a race war he reportedly thought were foretold in the Beatles' song "Halter Skelter."
Manson gets a parole hearing every third year.
Manson has been in held maximum security throughout his more than two decades in prison because authorities fear his ability to make others act violently.
Teams open biggest push to find U.S. MIA's in Vietnam
BANGKOK, Thailand — U.S. Vietnamese teams yesterday began their biggest attempt yet to account for United States servicemen missing from the Vietnam War, a U.S. military representative said.
The teams headed into the countryside from Vietnam's capital, Hanoi,
The Associated Press
said Army Maj. Gary Patton, representative for the U.S. Joint Task Force-Full Accounting office in the Vietnamese capital. Patton was interviewed by telephone from Bangkok.
The mission of the task force is to resolve the fate of 2.266 Americans listed as missing in Indochina from the war, which ended in 1975. That number includes prisoners of war who never
returned and servicemen reported missing in action.
The current operation is the 17th undertaken jointly with Vietnamese officials, Patton said. The first was conducted in September 1988.
The 58 U.S. specialists who began arriving Monday in Hanoi for the 30-day operation are being organized into two excavation teams and three inves
tigation teams. They will work in seven provinces in northern and central Vietnam.
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The teams will interview people in an effort to identify sites where U.S. servicemen might have died in fighting or have been buried. The excavation teams sift those sites for human remains or personal effects.
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