University Daily Kansan Death penalty for rape rejected By RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP)—The Supreme Court yesterday banned the use of the death penalty for the crime of raping a woman. The court also an invalid penalty for any crime but murder. the death penalty imposed on condemned Georgia rapists in arsony Coker. A major Justice's justices判刑 that rapa may be punished by death. Although the decision affects only six of the 360 prisoners on death rows, it may have a profound impact on the history of capital punishment in the United States. Had the court decided that states may impose the death penalty for crimes in which the life of the victim is not taken, its reasoning could have opened the door for future rulings that capital punishment is an appropriate penalty for such crimes as reason, espionage, blacking, terrorism or kidnapping. Reaction to the rape ruling was mixed, but some women's groups that have been crusading for rape crisis centers and a crackdown on rapists said that severe penalties had hampered attempts to convict rapists. Eleanor Smal, president of the National Organization for Women, said that rape was a serious and behious crime and should be severely punished. Casey Eike, co-director of the Douglas County Rape Victim Support Service, said she favored the move because juries would be more secure. Those cases that did involve the death penalty. But the judges and juries weren't convicting, she said, and with less severe penalties, her organization hoped that more maniasts would be convicted. The American Civil Liberties Union. which opposes the death penalty under any circumstances, noted that 405 of the 455 people executed for rape have been black and said that today's decision meant that this grievous example of racial prejudice would no longer flourish. Critic Justice Warren Burger, who along with Justice William Rehnquist voted that the death penalty is a valid punishment for rape, said in a dissenting opinion, "The clear implication of today's holding appears to be that the death penalty may be properly imposed only as to crimes resulting in death of the victim." Burger said the decision cast serious doubt on whether the court would look favorably on death penalty laws for crimes that involve negligence or other necessarily in any immediate death. The court's majority opinion was written by Justice Byron White, and was joined by Justice Potter Stewart, Harry Blackmun and John Paul Stevens. Justices William Brennan Jr. and Thurgoed Marshall, who oppose the death penalty for any crime, concurred. Justice Lewis Powell Jr. voted to overturn Coker's death sentence but said that under certain circumstances a rapist should be subject to a death sentence. White's opinion said, "Rape is without doubt deserving of serious punishment, but in terms of moral deprivation and of the injury to the person and to the public, it does not compare with murder, which does involve the unjustified taking of human life." White said the death penalty for rape was grossly out of proportion to the severity of the crime, and therefore imposed unqualified cruel and unusual punishment. Oil price rise dropped to bring OPEC peace VIENNA (AP)—The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries announced yesterday that nine of its 13 members are to abandon plans for a 5 per cent oil price increase July 1 in an effort to end a rift within the powerful oil cartel. Of the four other members, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates had rejected the increase all along, while Libya and Iraq apparently were holding out for the boost. The decision to abandon the July 1 increase has been rumored for weeks. American oil industry experts have said that such a move would mean only a slight savings at U.S. gas pumps. An increase of a dollar in the price of a barrel of crude translates into about two and a half cents a gallon at American pumps. The cartel split last December when 11 members decided on a 15 per cent price hike for 1797 that would occur in two stages, a hike of 10 per cent on Jan. 1 and a 5 per cent hike July 1. But Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which together account one-third of all OPEC exports, instead used for a one-shot 5 per cent boost. The division created what became known as a "two-tiered" pricing system, with the majority of members charging $12.70 a barrel. A brief statement from OPEC Secretrary-General Ail M. Jadah said the decision to forge the July 1 increase was taken in response to unity and solidarity of the organization. The following countries of the WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted yesterday to broaden the conditions under which the federal government will pay for abortions for poor women. Senate writes new rules for abortions Besides cases where a woman's life would be endangered by a full-term pregnancy, the Senate said federally funded abortions should be allowed in cases of rape or incest to suffer debility, which is a weakened stalk, or deformity because of disease. The new conditions were written into a $60.7 billion appropriations bill for the departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare, and a fund for the disease of kidney disease, multiple sclerosis and ectopic pregnancy, which occurs outside the uterus. The 56-42 vote rejected an amendment offered by Sen. Robert Packwood, R-Ore. to delete any limits on the use of federal funds for abortions. The vote places the Senate in conflict with the House over abortions for the second straight year. The House voted earlier this week to fund (funded) abortions under any conditions. Packwood argued that Congress should adopt the Supreme Court's view and leave abortion as a question to be resolved between a woman and her physician. To deny poor women immorals because the practice is thought immoral is "a disdainful, baughty arrogance that should demean this Congress," he said. Sen. Charles Percy, R-III, argued that abortion was a means of population control, a field in which the United States has traditionally taken the lead. that the Supreme Court returned to a lower court a case challenging a restriction on abortion funding that Congress approved in 1976. The Senate vote came on the same day This restriction, known as the Hyean amendment, said abortions under such federal programs as Medicaid should be paid for only when a woman's life would be in jeopardy because of a full-term pregnancy. A New York federal court judge staged the restriction, saying it was an unconstitutional infringement on the rights of poor women. The Supreme Court said the judge should take another look at his ruling in light of its decision, but the court that states have made will declare how to pay for abortions under Medicaid. Oil sources said that the nine members agreed to forge the July increase after receiving a written promise from Saudi Arabia, the world's largest exporter, and that the Arab Emirates that they would bring their prices in line with the oil exporters. organization—Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Iran, Kuwait, Nigeria, Qatar and Venezuela—have resolved to forgo the application of the additional 5 per cent increase in the price of oil as of July 1, 1977," the statement said. Such a compromise was advocated by Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez during a recent Midset tour. The announcement of the decision to abandon the July 1 hike came as Perez began an official visit to St. Mary's, a major emperor of Venezuela oil. Even if the Saudis and United Arab Emirates raise their prices, the decision by the other OPEC members not to raise their prices again could mean a savings of $10 billion. But this figure could be reduced if Iraq and Libya go ahead with a price increase. The United States imports about 40 per cent of its oil, and about 20 per cent of those imports are from Saudi Arabia and the UAR. OPEC's members hold about 81.1 per cent of the non-Communist world's oil reserves. The carrel has successively raised prices since the Arab oil boycott during the 1973 Mideast war. Before the war, oil cost $3 a barrel. 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