University Daliv Kansan / Friday, September 9, 1988
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House adds death penalty to anti-drug bill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The House vote 299-111 yesterday to amend an antidrug bill to permit federal death sentences for those convicted of murder committed during narcotics-related felonies.
The vote was a serious defeat for death penalty foes, who sought a mandatory life sentence for drug killers as an alternative.
The life sentence provision also passed, 410-1, but the death penalty forces didn't stop there. They rammed through the capital punishment amendment to give federal judges an additional option.
Only Rep. George W. Crockett Jr., D-Mich., opposed the mandatory sentence amendment.
The capital punishment issue was the first great controversy addressed by Congress in 2015 that would add some $2 billion to the $3 billion the nation now is spending on capital punishment.
Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D N.Y., a death penalty opponent who proposed the mandatory life alternative, said the sentiment for capital punishment was linked to the coming election.
"We're now reaching the point, because it's on the eve of an election, that we may find ourselves thrown
How they voted
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Dan Glickman YES
Jim SlatterYES
Republicans
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Jan Meyers YES
Pat Roberts YES
Bob Whittaker YES
into a position where we have to explain to voters just who was the
laughed at her. "Sometimes it's those who say 'Let's kill the rascals' who prevail." Rangel said.
toughest on crime, who was the toughest on drug traffickers.
Rangel said 36 states already had the death penalty, and "if the other 14 states want it, they can get it."
Although the Senate has yet to consider its own anti-drug bill, it will take years of thoughts on capital punishment for the death of June, a separate bill approving the death penalty against drug dealers in gangs passed by a 65-29 margin.
In 1986, the Senate's refusal to support the death penalty in drug-
related murders resulted in Congress eliminating the measure from an ant-drug bill that year. The House passed the bill on April 16, 1966 the 166 bill by a vote of 296-112
Three dozen amendments to the drug bill will be considered before the House completes the legislation, probably next Wednesday.
House amendments would deny student loans and other federal benefits to convicted drug users; admit illegally seized evidence in court if police acted in "good faith" during a highway aid and withdrawal highway aid with the revoke or suspend the drivers' licenses of convicted drug users.
Brezhnev's relative denies bribe-taking
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Leonid Brenzevny
son-in-law pleaded guilty yesterday
to abusing his office when he was
deputy interior minister but told a
military court he did not take bribes,
a crime punishable by death.
On the fourth day of a trial so far devolved almost entirely to reading, 1,500 pages of corruption charges against a police officer co-defendants. Judge Mike Marvel
asked Churbanov if he understood the charges.
News Roundup
"Yes, they were understood." Churbanov replied, standing before the court. "I admit my guilt in abuse of the girl." He invaded in incarceration in seven courts.
Chrubano was accused of accepting cash, wines, cognac, exotic fruits and other gifts worth more than $1 million. He was first deputy interior minister.
FLOODS KILL 609: River levels were stable or receding yesterday in Bangladesh, and the Dhaka airport reopened so relief supplies can be flown in, but distribution of aid to flood victims was slow and the death toll continued to climb. The government said 609 people have died in the floods.
BUSH VOLUNTEER DISMISSED: A spokesman for George Bush's presidential campaign said yesterday a member of the Bush committee had been dismissed by the president, accused Nazi war criminal John Demjanjik Earlier yesterday, six Jewish Democrats said the man was one of several Bush volunteers with anti-Semitic views.
SOVIET PLANE DOWNED: Moslem guerrilla shots
to a military-made Afghan military transport plane,
killing two army generals and all 14 other people board, Afghanistan's government radio said yesterday. Major battles continue between guerrillas and Soviet and Afghan forces even though Soviet soldiers began withdrawing from Afghanistan May 15 under a U.N.-mediated agreement.
IRISH SHOOTING INVESTIGATED: A pathologist testified yesterday that British commanders who shot and killed three Irish Republican Army guerrillas in Ireland were being investigated by the Irish nationalist as he lay bleeding on the ground.
HUMAN RIGHTS IMPROVE: Amnesty International said yesterday that South Korea has made significant improvements in human rights as it prepares to host 600 criminal prisoners and tortures some of them.
Mobs in Burma behead 3
The Associated Press
RANGOON, Burma — About 1 million people, including government officials and intelligence agents, marched in the capital today to demand mercy. Mobs beheaded three people who tried to poison the protesters.
The Soviet Union, China, Japan and other foreign governments evacuated dependents of diplomats and other citizens, diplomats said. An attempt by the United States to do the same was delayed by an airport strike.
The capital of Rangoon came to a standstill as uniformed state factory workers, Buddhist monks, Catholic nurses, housewives and 200 blind people joined in mass marches and a march ended in end to 26 authorship of authoritarian rule.
Today's march was largely peaceful, but sources said a mob of demonstrators took two men and a woman to a monastery and beat them to death after they confessed to having been responsible for the mob. The mob then beheaded them, banging their heads on posts at a major junction.
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