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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, May 5, 1960
Anderson Will Approve Capital Punishment If-
TOPEKA-JUPI)-Atty. Gen. John Anderson Jr. said yesterday he would sign a bill to abolish capital punishment if he were governor and one were approved by the legislature.
Anderson, a Republican gubernatorial candidate, added, however, that he would neither ask the legislature to pass such a bill nor lead any movement for cancellation of the death penalty.
The Attorney General and Democrat Gov. George Docking clashed face-to-face Monday on the capital punishment issue. Anderson had been highly critical of the Governor for commuting the death sentence of convicted killer Bobby Joe Spencer.
The question of the right or wrong of capital punishment is not involved in the Spencer case, Anderson said yesterday.
"I believe the Governor's action was clearly outside the scope of the law," he said, "because he is substituting his personal judgment for the mandate of the law after trial."
Docking said the Spencer commutation represented his attitude toward capital punishment.
Anderson would not spell out his personal feeling about capital punishment.
"I don't think it is material what my, personal belief is," he said. "The composite belief of the people as expressed through their representatives is what matters."
'If the people of the state through their elected representatives should determine that capital punishment should be abolished, I would have no hesitancy in signing a bill to abolish it.
New Fish Links Amphibians, Fish
"It provides proof that amphibians did evolve from fishes and it also is an unusual discovery because an animal so different from other animals as to constitute a new order rarely is found." Dr. E. Raymond Hall, professor of zoology and director of the KU Natural History museum, said.
The technical name for the specimen is Hesperoherpeton garnettense of the order Plesiopoda.
The senior author of the publication, "A New Order of Fishlike Amphibia from the Pennsylvanian of Kansas," is Theodore Eaton, Jr., visiting associate professor of zoology and associate curator in charge of lower fossil vertebrates in the museum. Peggy Lou Stewart, research assistant to Prof. Easton, is the junior author.
The geological deposit in which the fossil was found is six miles northwest of Garnett.
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"There is a tendency on the part of Christian-thinking people to grow toward abolishment of capital punishment as part of our penal system, but it's a slow process and one which varies with time and circumstance in the administration of criminal justice."
The Attorney General also said that if capital punishment were abolished, the law also should be changed to insure longer prison terms for those convicted of major crimes.
He said he would not, however, go so far as to say that a person sentenced to life imprisonment should never be eligible for parole.
Sophomore Wins Latin Prize
Carolyn J. Stotts, Havensville sophomore, has been awarded the Hannah Oliver Latin prize, a $25 award given each year by the department of Latin and Greek to the student gaining highest Latin proficiency in two or more semesters of study.
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