Except in Kansas
Death Penalty Nearly Obsolete
Capital punishment, its pros and cons, will be the subject of a lecture by Ralph Slovenko, visiting professor of law, before the Chancery Club at 8 p.m. today in the Kansas Union.
"For practical purposes the death penalty does not exist anymore." Slovenko said in an interview. This is the central point, the professor said, he hopes to bring out in his lecture.
SLOVENKO SAID there are ways condemned persons get around the death penalty. The most effective is for the condemned person to be declared insane while waiting for execution on death row.
"It is a general rule." Slovenko continued, "that an insane man cannot be executed. Louisiana has had one execution in the last 15 years, yet the state condemns an average of ten persons a year."
Slovenko points out that Kansas and California seem to be the only two states which actually carry out the death penalty with any regularity.
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Slovenko said he felt that society needs to have a way to purge itself of unwanted members. He points out that this method need not be the death penalty, but rather the use of the life sentence.
THE DEATH PENALTY provides more of a deterrent to convicted killers who have been resentenced to life imprisonment, than to those unintegrated persons in society who may contemplate murder, Slovenko said. This is true, he continued, because the threat of being returned to death row can always be used. After they have been through the death row experience once, they dread having to return to it, Slovenko added.
KU-Y Not in Teach-In
It was erroneously printed in Tuesday's Daily Kansan that KUY would be one of the sponsors of the teach-in program concerning Viet Nam scheduled for Saturday.
Tom Moore, director of KU-Y,
stated that a motion to become a sponsor for the program was defeated 11-10 in a cabinet meeting held Oct. 5.
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Thursday, October 14, 1965
OWL SOCIETY
Application for Fall membership selections in the Owl Society are available in the Office of the Dean of Men 228 Strong
Slovenko pointed out that many of these resentment killers become noted useful members of prison society and society as a whole.
Applications Must Be Turned In by October 18
For further information, call Dick Warner, VI 3-4811
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