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.
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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.
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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
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Enter Hippo, a 1,200 pound stallion owned by J.L.
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Unlike human patients, Hippo walks into the
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"Easy buddy, easy now," says Kaneps.
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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
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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
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