Monday, Aug. 26, 1985
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Death row total, executions rise
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A record 1,405 convicted murderers were on state prison death rows at the end of 1984, a year when there was a sharp rise in the number of executions, the Justice Department said yesterday.
The department's Bureau of Justice Statistics said that 21 people were executed last year, compared to only 11 executions across the country from 1975 through 1883.
There have been 16 executions so far this year, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund said in its own tally. At the end of 1984, 1,405 convicted murderers, all but 17 of whom were, men, under death sentences in 38 states that have capital punishment laws, the Justice Department said. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said that its figures showed that
Among the findings of the government study, based on an examination of the offenders under death sentences in 37 states at the end of last year:
through Aug. 1, 1985, the number of death row inmates totaled 1,540.
Of the 1,405 inmates under death sentence at the end of last year, 1,388 were men and 17 were women; 804 were white and 585 were black, and 16 were classified as members of "other races."
- Of the 21 executions carried out last year, eight were in Florida, five in Louisiana, three in Texas, two in Georgia, two in North Carolina and one in Virginia.
Thirteen of those executed were white males, seven were black men and one was a white woman — Velma Barfield, who was put to death last
Nov. 2 in Raleigh, N.C., for murdering her boyfriend by poisoning.
One in 10 of those on death rows at the end of last year had a prior homicide conviction and two-thirds of the 1,405 had previous felony convictions. One-fifth of the death row inmates had been on parole at the time of their capital offense.
The most common methods of execution permitted by state law were electrocution — in 16 states—and lethal injection — allowed by 15 states. Lethal gas is permitted in eight states, hanging is permitted in four states and a firing squad in three states.
Because of constitutional problems with imposing the death penalty, only 1.4 percent of those under sentence of death between 1977 and 1984 were actually executed.
There were relatively few executions in the United States between 1975 and 1983 as the Supreme Court grappled with a host of cases testing the constitutionality of the death penalty, the study said.
The Supreme Court in 1972, the study noted, had struck down state and federal capital punishment statutes because they permitted too much discretion by courts in meting out the punishment.
But a series of more recent decisions, including an important ruling in 1976 that reaffirmed the constitutionality of the death penalty if certain criteria are met, have established a framework through which states have amended their statutes to conform with constitutional guarantees.
Federal workers hard to find, educator says
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"We've stacked the deck against the presidential appointees," said G. Calvin Mackenzie, who is winding up a yearlong study of the difficulty of recruiting the best and brightest candidates to accept presidential appointments in the federal government.
The Colby College professor has been on a leave of absence for the past year, directing the $250,000 study for the National Association of Public Administration, a nonpartisan think tank. His draft report was released this month, and the final report will be released Nov. 1 in Washington.
Mackenzie said the study confirmed suspicions that inadequate pay levels, resentment of disclosure requirements and other "petty aggravations" discourage some of the best candidates.
At the same time, he said, many of those who answered the call found their jobs more difficult and frustrating than they ever imagined, quit early and remain bitter at a system that inhibits accomplishment.
Mackenzie concluded that government service attracted "better people than it deserves" but not as good as it should.
The NAPA study originated with
the business Roundtable, an organization of top corporate executives, which was troubled by the length of time the Reagan administration had taken to fill high-level posts after assuming office in 1981. The following year the organization financed a study of presidential appointments; Mackenzie was its principal investigator.
The study focused on 400 to 600 key policymaking jobs at the subcabinet level and in regulatory agencies; all require confirmation by the Senate and pay from $68,000 to $82,000 a year. "It's the kind of job that won't be supervised when you tell your grandchildren you held it." said Mackenzie.
Mackenzie's team mailed questionnaires to about 1,000 people who held subcubain jobs in the last two decades. The almost 600 replied were augmented by hourlong interviews with 100 or so of the respondents.
While the report's specific recommendations are under wraps, Mackenzie indicated that the need to make pay and benefits more competitive with the private sector was a key conclusion of the study.
The study found widespread irritation with financial disclosure requirements. Appointees seldom objected to providing information
about their assets but thought it should be made available to a Senate committee or government ethics agency, not to the public.
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