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Thursday, December 5. 1974
University Daily Kansan
Death penalty effect questioned ..
"It seems to me that the ultimate value in society is human life," he said. "I think the fundamental objective of law is to support and sustain human life, and when we take human life it seems to be inconsistent with everything we support legally."
Deterrence is another reason given for the retention of the death penalty. The deterrence theory says that if the state executes a person for the commission of a crime, then the state will be set and other people who might commit similar crimes will be deterred.
Sanborn said the death penalty was a deterrent to crime.
"I know it's a deterrent," he said. "The strongest instinct we have is to survive and the strongest teaching we have is to preserve and protect the quality of life.
"Some people are willing to take a chance on anything if they think they won't get caught," he said. "If you always know you fail, then you get caught you a defrain from that conduct."
"The deterrence theory is ridiculous." Foch said. "If we say we want to punish 'X' with the ultimate penalty so he'll never do it again, it's a valid theory. But don't tell me Y' is going to be affected by the execution of 'X.'"
prosecuting attorney for six years and had never seen a murder case where the criminal had given any forethought to the death penalty before he killed.
FOCHT SAID HE HAD been a
Those who favor the death penalty say the deterrent effect would be lost if capital punishment was abolished. They say that it is a violation of acts as a reminder to potential criminals.
Wilson said measuring the deterrent effect of the death penalty is difficult because there was no way to know how many people refrained from murder or some other capital crime because of the death penalty...
"I don't think that it's ever been demonstrated that the death penalty is an effective deterrent, and I really don't know why." (I wrote about that.) "It's not the kind of thing you can experiment with in a laboratory. You don't have a controlled situation."
HISTORICALLY, CAPITAL punishment has had no statisticly visible effect on the rate of suicide.
In 17th century England, the public hanging of a man for the crime of pick-pocketing often was attended by other pick-pockets and had trade on the crowd watching the execution.
More recently, a subcommittee of the Judiciary in the California Assembly began investigating an unrelated committee reported that the possibility of being executed was never considered by murderers. The subcommittee concluded that the deliberate effect on murder or other crimes.
FBI STATISTICS FOR 1965 showed that that a woman who had given birth in that year, regardless of the supposed deterent effect obtained by gassing Caryl Lennon, would have had an equal sexual assault and executor. May 2, 1965.
Aaron Mitchell, convicted of murdering a policeman, was executed May 8, 1967, in
California. In that year, according to the Uniform Crime Reports compiled by the FBI, there was sudden increase in the number of police officers killed by criminals.
During the years 1960-1966, the average number killed a year was 48, but in 1967 the number shot up to 78. In California during the mid-1960s, police of officers killed a year and the number didn't exceed eight in any one year. But in the last seven months of 1967, after sketches of Mitchell's execution had been televised, the number of policemen killed jumped to
DEATH PENALTY ABDOLITIONISTS say an argument that is basic to the cause is that the death penalty often is applied in a minority group against both the poor and minority groups.
Of the 3,859 executions for all crimes in the United States since 1930, 6.4 per cent of those have been blacks or members of other minorities, although
blacks constitute 20 per cent of the total population.
Statistically, the Bureau of Prisons records showed that during the first six years of record keeping, 130-1833, the number of inmates was twice the number of white by half. The reason for the figures, the report said, was that the South executed four times as many people as any of the other three regions, and the South convicted twice as many blacks to death as whites.
of the 145 people on death row in the United States today, 80 are black, three are American Indian and one is a Mexican-Indian and one is therefore at least 57.9 percent nowhere.
One Californian warden said that a wealthy man is rarely executed. The warden, Lewis E. Laws, who supervised him during his incarceration he was warden at Sing Ping Sentiment's "impressed by the fact that the majority of them had been too poor to hire a lawyer and
were defended by counsel appointed by the court."
The number of executions a year gradually has decreased since the peak year of 1938 when 199 persons were put to death. In 2017, more than 500 Executions continue to be held up because of rigorous legal efforts by attorneys who appeal the cases to higher courts. The 1972 Supreme Court decision and similar cases in those courts have slowed the execution process.
By no means, though, are all people convinced that the death penalty should be abolished. But 28 states that have enacted it and statute statues since the 1972 ruling are proof.
AAUP disputes . . .
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would present recommendations of University employees that should be included in a bargaining unit, and that the university would discuss these recommendations.
Those who wanted the AALP to recommend collective bargaining to the faculty would have a chance to make their motion, he said, and those who wanted the whole subject to be dropped would have an equal chance. The members could vote at the meeting, he said.
"ALL WE'RE GOING to do is propose the members of a unit," said Krider.
'My chief objection is that the AAUP gives the impression to the regents and to the administration that they represent the government of the United States' said Clark Bricker, professor of chemistry.
Bricker said he thought that few members of the faculty belonged to the AUP, but the organization seemed to take for granted that they were discussed collective bargaining.
BRICKER KID THOSE who opposed collective bargaining could make their
Pioneer 11 aids KU research on spacecraft
By JANE WINDCHEFFEJ
Besides aiding scientists in their quest to find out about the Earth's formation, Pioneer 11 will also be helping the University of Kansas to design a new spacecraft, according to Thomas Armstrong, professor of astronomy.
He said the M-J-S was a NASA project, and the University was working under its supervision.
Armstrong said yesterday that KU was participating, along with several other universities, in the development of the spacecraft, which will be launched in 1977.
"We are scrutinizing the results of the building of the she-M-S-2 Armstrong said.
Armstrong said the objective of the M-J-S mission was to do a refined and detailed
"The M-J S will take high quality television pictures of both planets," he said, "as well as to do more in depth studies on results that Pioneer 11 sends to us."
Armstrong said he was relieved Pioneer 11 had survived its contact with Jupiter's orbit.
Jupiter's radiation belt had caused concern among scientists. They feared Pioneer 11 might be extensively damaged by it, but reports Monday indicated the spacecraft had received only slight damage due to the radiation shock.
"It is too early to tell if the Pioneer 11 will be a success," he said.
"By studying this information," Armstrong said, "scientists should be able to learn more about the Earth's formation. mation.
"Data about the Earth is relatively scarce and most knowledge we have is only about its crust and atmosphere. Scientists know very little about the processes that occurred at the time of the Earth's formation."
The specific objectives of Pioneer 11, Armstrong said, are to investigate the composition of Jupiter and to study its atmosphere. He said this would entail studying its internal heat source, cloud mixing, magnetic field and its trapped radiation.
"Jupiter is a piece of the solar system and if we can understand how the solar system was formed then we will have more information to tell wha Earth is like it."
Armstrong said scientists also hoped to be able to compare Jupiter's magnesome sphere with the terrestrial magnesome and the terrestrial rings as weather and radio communication.
He said the magnesphere resembled a little bubble that surrounded a planet and contained gas. He pointed to a field, Solar wind, the expanding atmosphere of the sun, was excluded from the magnesphere and instead the magnesphere was filled with trapped gases.
He said Pioneer 11 was the second he mission. Pioneer 11 had an encounter mission. Pioneer 11 had encountered asteroid.
feelings heard best by attending the meeting tonight.
Frances Ingemann, professor of linguistics, responding to the claim that the AAUP was not representative, said it was open to any faculty member who wanted to
Employees Relations Board over in Topteka," she said.
She said the AAUP was not intending to
bring any members on the question of a bargaining
party.
"THE VOTE IS conducted by the Public
Ingemann said she hoped people would come, because that would guarantee that a wider number of viewpoints would get a bearing.
"Well, we find out (at the meeting," *I* said. "Anybody who wishes to join there may do so."
The meeting will be at 7:30 tonight in the Council Room of the Kansas Union.
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