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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1983)
Gov. Atiyeh submits death penalty bill SALEM (AP) — Measures sought by Gov. Vic Atiyeh to restore the death penalty in Oregon were introduced Monday in the Oregon House. A bill, HB2294, would allow capital punish ment by lethal injection for aggravated murder. A companion measure that would require voter approval, HJR3, would amend the state con stitution to specifically permit the death penalty. The lawmakers could pass a death penalty law without seeking voter approval. But that poses the risk that a court could overturn the law on grounds that it violated the Oregon Con stitution. That's what the state Supreme Court did in 1981 in striking down a death penalty measure approved by voters in 1978. Aggravated murder includes the killing of peace officers, prison guards, judges or other court employees, multiple or repeat murders, murder for hire, murders involving torture and slayings following escape from prison or jail. "V I r If approved by the Legislature, the propos ed constitutional amendment would be on the May 1984 primary election ballot or at an earlier statewide special election if one was held. The state Supreme Court overturned the capital punishment law two years ago because it allowed judges alone to impose the death sentence. The court said that violated constitu tional provisions guaranteeing defendants the right to a jury trial on factual issues. The bill backed by Atiyeh would have juries decide, at separate sentencing hearings following convictions, whether capital punish ment should be imposed. A death penalty bill was introduced in the House in the 1981 legislative session, but it never got out of committee. The last execution in Oregon was in 1962. Another bill introduced Monday, HB2292, called for the reduction of the State Board of Forestry from 18 to 12 members, at the request of the governor. 13th & Kincaid Mon Fri 7:30-5 30 Sal 10 00 3 00 BOOKSTORE Supplies S86-«331 OVERNIGHT PHOTO PROCESSING colorprints only IN BY 4 p m OUT BY NOON FUJI COLOR PRINT FILM Expires 1 '29/83 Quality 4"x5” Print* at Standard Print Prioa 24 Expoaur* Roil » You' 'oM o* ?4 «*po*ur9 110 ro*Of txiot mm ttomiopod and I printed mlo custom 4 <*• print* at standard 3v» «4’'i • 041 proeoM only Expires 1 29/83 LOOK AROUND AND LOOK AHEAD! OSPIRG hosts a GENERAL INTEREST MEETING Tuesday, January 25 5:30 p.m. EMU Ballroom, Dad’s Room Students active in OSPIRG (Oregon Student Public Interest Group) speaks on Opportunities in Organizing • Education Research • Advocacy Media • Advertising • Graphics A film will be shown on Public Interest Groups nationwide. OSPIRG® For more information call 686-4377 or stop by OSPIRG office in Suite 1, EMU 50* wine Ladies 5 - close Fridays Hot Dogs 8 pm ’til ? Tuesdays Remember Bea's Famous Hamburgers Come and enjoy live sporting events on our BIG SCREEN TV via satellite E. Amazon Dr. Eugana • 342-35/5 This hospital treats patients with four legs, tails and flies CORVALLIS (AP) — When the “patient" weighs 1,200 pounds, a lot of team effort is needed. The operating room is scrubbed and ready, and anesthesiologist Thomas Riebold makes the final ad justments on the respirator that will do the breathing for the patient during surgery. Enter Hippo, a 1,200 pound stallion owned by J.L. Cogburn and Poor Boy Stables of Springfield. Unlike human patients, Hippo walks into the operating room under his own power, led by his surgeon, Dr. Andris Kaneps. "Easy buddy, easy now," says Kaneps. The operating room is at the Oregon State University School of Veterinary Medicine. It will award its first doc toral degrees this spring to more than 30 people. During the final year in the three-year graduate pro gram, students go through intensive, four-week surgical programs. Court grants execution stay HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Thomas Andy Barefoot, less than 12 hours from becoming the second Texas inmate to die by lethal injection in as many months, was spared Monday when U.S. Supreme Court justices granted a stay. The justices said they in tended to use Barefoot’s case to decide how federal courts should handle emergency death penalty appeals. The court will hear arguments in his case April 26, but a decision might not be an nounced until July. Barefoot, 37, a convicted killer scheduled for execution Tuesday morning, was elated when a prison chaplain told him about the stay, saying the Lord had answered his prayers, prison officials said. “He was not crying,” said spokesman Rick Hartley. ‘ But he was on the verge. Other than that he was basically speechless.” Barefoot was to be the seventh U.S. prison inmate ex ecuted since 1967. Charles Brooks Jr., the first Texas in mate to be executed since 1964, was the only inmate among the seven to die by lethal injection when he was executed here Dec. 7. Barefoot was sentenced to die for the Aug. 7, 1978, shooting death of police of ficer Carl Levin, 31. Winterize your bike for only $ 15 663 E. Thirteenth eyforkg 343-7086 THE STRUGGLE AGAINST STALINISM IN EUROPEAN CULTURES: The Case of Miroslav krleza a free public lecture by Predrag Matvejevid (University of Zagreb) Wednesday. January 26. 1983 7:30 pm 204 Condon l» ll*r H) Human ft t.wu Kuiut*u» Mudm UHm
