University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, December 2, 1986
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hanged.
State Rep. Thomas Walker, R.Newton, was a highway patrol officer in 1942 and arrested Hoegen, an escaped convict, in Wichita for bootlegging tires, which were rationed during World War II.
Hoefgen was returned to Texas but later escaped back to Kansas and killed a man whose body was found in a Marion County cornfield. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation traced Hoefgen to a Denver stockyard.
"He was brought back to Kansas and hanged at Lansing," Walker said.
Legislative debate
Because of his experience in law enforcement, Walker he opposed the death penalty, saying it provided a deterrent to would-be criminals.
"I'm completely not convinced that it has any effect at all on crime," he said. "Regardless of what I do, I expect the death penalty to pass. But I shall vote against it again."
Walker's opposition is countered
by Graeber, who has said the Legislature must send a message to criminals that the taking of life would not be tolerated in Kansas.
Graebe said the long period of time between conviction and execution diluted the effectiveness of the death penalty.
"I still have a great concern about the time and expense between the conviction and the actual carrying out of the sentence," he said. "This can run eight, nine and 10 years — all at the expense of the taxpayer."
But Graeber softened his stand slightly last week when he said life imprisonment should be considered as the only alternative.
"I support the death penalty, but I can see the argument that a mandatory sentence of 50 or 60 years with no chance of parole should be studied," Graeber said.
Local legislators have repeatedly opposed the death penalty — the most vocal of these being State Rep. John Solbach. D-Lawrence.
"It's simply cold-blooded murder to take someone and execute
them." he said.
Like Solbach, Gov. Carlin opposes the death penalty for philosophical reasons.
"It is time for the Legislature to not constructive action and develop (1) the Legislature."
'It's simply cold-blooded murder to take someone out and execute them.' State Rep. John Solbach
the most heinous of crimes," the governor said in a short veto message in 1981.
Carlin vetoed death penalty bills in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1983. In each case, the backers of the measures failed to pass legislation in both houses to override a yete
His predecessor, Republican Gov.
Robert Bennett, strongly supported the death penalty, and in 1976 proposed that the death penalty be reenacted for first-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, treason and air piracy.
Two death-penalty bills were introduced the following year, but both were lost in the legislative process
Bennett sharply criticized Carlin for promising in the 1978 campaign to sign death penalty legislation, only to veto the bill the following year.
Graeber predicted the bill would pass by a comfortable margin if legislators voted as they had in the past.
Legislators don't expect that problem from Hayden, whose vocal support virtually ensures passage.
"It appears from past voting that there's enough support to pass it," he said. "I wonder myself how many people in the House and the Senate voted for the measure knowing that the governor would veto it.
"I think we're going to see some of those votes fall off when they have to stand up and be counted."
Iran deal could stop pardon for Hasenfus
United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The Iran arms-contra aid scandal may jeopardize a possible pardon for Eugene Hasenfus, who was sentenced to 30 years in prison for running arms to Nicaraguan rebels, his lawyer said yesterday.
Nicaragua had been considering pardoning Hasenfus as a good-faith gesture toward the United States, but defense attorney Enrique Sotelo Borgen said yesterday he was not optimistic.
The Reagan administration is embroiled in controversy over the sale
weapons to Iran and the funneling of profits to contraas fighting a guerrilla war to overthrow the leftist government in Managua.
"The pardon request to the government has been set back by all this." Sotelo said in an interview. "The scandal complicates everything."
Hasenfu has admitted taking part in a secret network that supplied
arms and equipment to the contras. He was captured Oct. 6, a day after Nicaragua troops shot down his plane during a supply run.
On Nov. 18, a People's Tribunal found Hasenfus guilty of terrorism and violation of public security laws and sentenced him to 30 years in prison. His case is now before an appeals court.
President Daniel Ortega raised the possibility of a pardon, saying the 45-year-old ex-Marine from Marinette, Wis., was a victim of President Reagan's policy
The Hasenfu trial exposed the existence of a supply network that operated from the Ilopango air force base in El Salvador, one of the strongest U.S. allies in Central American.
The name of Lt. Col. Oliver North, a former National Security Counsel-aide accused of setting up the network, was mentioned at Hasenfus's trial.
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