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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Wednesday, March 19, 1986
Death penalty fails committee vote
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A death penalty bill failed to get out of a House committee yesterday, but the chairman of the committee predicted that the bill would be brought up again and would eventually pass the state Legislature.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee failed to get the bill out of committee when a 10-10 vote resulted. The bill would reinstate the death penalty for the premeditated murder of a law enforcement officer or a prison guard.
But such a vote only keeps the bill from moving onto the house floor.
and does not kill it, said Rep. Robert H. Miller, the committee's chairman. Miller, R-Wellington, said he expected to bring the bill up for a vote again today.
Miller described the vote as a poll, and said that it did not mean much. No debate or attempts to amend the bill preceded the committee's action.
"I just wanted to have all the cards on the table," he said.
"The public keeps demanding that Kansas enact the death penalty, and all the Legislature can do is keep trying," Miller said.
Miller attributed the vote against endorsing the death penalty measure to the absence for personal reasons of Rep. Michael Peterson, D-Kansas City, a death penalty supporter. When Peterson returned Wednesday, supporters will have the votes to pass the bill out of committee, Miller said.
Under the bill, those who receive the death sentence would be put to death by lethal injection. However, if that type of execution is declared unconstitutional, the bill specifies hanging or electrocution as backup methods.
Juries would be required to sit through two trials, one to determine guilt and another to determine whether the death penalty should be imposed. In addition, the state
Supreme Court would review each death sentence, and those who were under 18 when the murder was committed could not receive the death sentence.
Miller predicted both houses of the Legislature would pass the death penalty bill, but he said he did not think supporters had enough votes to override a veto in the Senate.
Gov. John Carlin said he would veto the bill, just as he had vetoed death penalty legislation in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1985.
The last executions in Kansas took place in 1965. 'Kansas' capital punishment law was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1973.
Alleged pressure causes commissioners to resign
United Press International
TOPEKA — Two members of the Kansas Commission on Civil Rights have resigned, alleging Gov. John Carlin pressured them to name his choice for commission director, a news service reported yesterday.
Susan Marshall, Lincoln lawyer,
and Ed Martinez, Hutchinson
businessman, said they mailed
their resignations to Carlin,
the Harris News Service reported.
The commissioners said Carlin pressured them to hire Joanne
Hurst, a former Carlin staff member, as KCCR executive director over their own choice of acting director Robert Lav.
The commission Thursday voted 4-3 to hire Hurst, who worked for three years in Carlin's constituent services office and then left in 1983 to become assistant to the dean of the University of Kansas' College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Commissioners Marshall, Martinez and Lou Am Smith of Topeka voted for Lay, who they said had the highest numerical score in the lengthy interview process.
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