NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, March 4, 1994
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Death penalty bill under debate
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Rep. Clyde Graeber, R-Leavenworth, chair of the House Federal and State Affairs Committee, which drafted the house plan, would serve as the conference committee's chair. The other two representatives appointed were Rep. Mike O'Neal, R-Hutchinson, the chair of the Judicary Committee, and Rep. Robert Krehbiel, D-Pretty Prairie, the ranking Democrat on the Federal and State Affairs Committee.
includes all premeditated murders and a short list of unintentional killings.
The Senate adjourned for a long weekend and will not name its members until Monday.
The Senate proposal, approved 22-18 on Tuesday, is designed to reserve death by lethal injection as the penalty for the most heinous crimes. Those crimes would include contract
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killings, intentional multiple murders, murders of law enforcement officers and murderers of children who are kidnapped as part of a sex crime.
Supporters of the House proposal, passed on a voice vote of 70-55, think that it will create more of a deterrent for criminals by including some unintentional killings that occurred during some felonies, such as ldnapping and violent sex offenses. Also, unintentional killings of law enforcement officials would be covered.
Sen. Mark Parkinson, R-Olathe, sponsored a third death penalty proposal that represents a compromise between the other two. It would cover all premeditated murders but no unintentional killings.
The bill began in the House, so under the Legislature's rules, representatives will take the last vote on any conference committee report.
The Freedom Alliance held an emergency meeting yesterday after a key member, Inkata Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, indicated that he might take part in the vote.
The Associated Press
South African conservatives tentatively agree to elections
After an all-day meeting Tuesday with Mandela, Butchelza agreed to register for the vote, and Mandela agreed to international mediation.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa The leaders of a coalition of conservative Blacks and pro-apartheid whites announced yesterday that they might participate in the nation's first all-race elections if their demand for foreign mediation is met.
But the leaders have not yet determined who to bring in as mediator.
However, members of the Freedom Alliance indicated that they wanted the historic April vote delayed, something both the white minority government and the African National Congress have rejected.
Alliance members, including Inkatha, the pro-apartheid Conservative Party and the government of the nominally independent Bophuthatswana homeland, fear that their desires for self-
Alliance members want provisions for regional autonomy enshrined in the constitution and want to make sure that the ANC can't change the constitution if it takes power. The ANC has made some concessions but has ruled out allowing sovereign homelands for Zulus, white separatists and others.
Number children with insurance dropping
More than 85 percent of children who do have private insurance are covered by a job-related policy, the report said. But the percentage of children who had such coverage fell from 41.1 percent in 1987 to 59.6 percent in 1992.
determination would be ignored by an ANC government.
Members of the Freedom Alliance have threatened civil war if their demands for regional autonomy are not met.
The Associated Press
The ANC, South Africa's largest political group, is expected to win the April 26-28 election, making its president, Nelson Mandela, the country's first Black leader.
The report said one of eight American children under 18, or 8.3 million children, had no health insurance in 1992.
"Only by guaranteeing health insurance for every American can we assure every child and pregnant woman the health care they need," said Marian Wright Edelman, president of the Washington-based child advocacy group.
The report by the Children's Defense Fund recommends universal health coverage and mandatory job-related insurance to stem what it sees as declining coverage for children.
CINGINATI — By the year 2000, about half of American children will be covered by their parents' employee health insurance if a current trend continues, a report says.
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