Demos set
platform
discussions
The Lane County Democratic
Party will hold its first work ses
sions on the 1984 Lane County
Democratic Platform Thursday,
Nov. 3 at 7:30 p.m. in Harris Hall.
The platform discussions are
open to all registered democrats.
Fifteen subject committees will
formulate positions in each sub
ject area to be presented for
debate and adoption at the Lane
County Democratic Party Platform
Convention Dec. 3.
The platform adopted by Lane
County Democrats will then be
forwarded for consideration at the
State Democratic Party Platform
Convention which will be held at
the Valley River Inn in March.
Sam Dominy, Cottage Grove,
chair of the County Convention,
says "It is very important that all
democrats take this great oppor
tunity to formulate policy in this
presidential election year. What
we decide in Lane County may
well have influence at the Na
tional Convention in San Fran
cisco next summer."
Aims for 1984 ballot
Group seeks to reinstate the death penalty
in Oregon through statewide petition drive
By Michael Cross
Of the Emerald
Claiming that at the present
time “we have no punishment
that fits the crime of murder,”
William Jolley and others who
share his feelings have set out to
reinstate capital punishment in
Oregon.
Jolley leads "Maximum Penal
ty," an organization circulating
petitions to place a referendum
on the November 1984 Oregon
ballot. The group needs 83,361
signatures of registered Oregon
voters but is seeking at least
100,000 to ensure a safe margin.
Jolley thinks voters will ap
prove the measure if given the
opportunity to vote on it.
Surveys show that about 75 per
cent of Oregonians favor the
death penalty, he says.
Voters approved a similar pro
posal several years ago but the
Oregon Supreme Court rejected
it due to a technicality in the
sentencing portion of the law.
If amended, the Oregon Con
st it ut ion would read
"henceforth the maximum
penalty for willful, wanton or
premeditated murder shall be
death by lethal injection."
Lethal injection involves ad
ministering the subject with a
chemical compound resulting in
painless death. Several other
states have opted for this form ot
execution rather than the elec
trie chair, gas chamber or firing
squad.
The amendment's organizers
chose to bypass the Legislature
due to general lack of interest by
members, Jolley says.
Capital punishment is not
"cruel and unusual," Jolley says.
The murderer's victim was "sub
jected to the most cruel and
unusual punishment at the
hands of a self-appointed execu
tioner. The punishment should
fit the crime," he says. The death
penalty is the appropriate
punishment for those who com
mit murder, he says._
Murderers should be "punish
ed for the inhumane and bar
baric act of murder if we are to
maintain some semblance of a
civilized society."
Research evidence shows the
existence of an applicable death
penalty reduces the violence of
crime when there is an
assurance the punishment will
be carried out, Jolley says.
If capital punishment is ap
proved in the state, Oregon
judges could hand down a death
sentence where the "conviction
is certain and proved by the facts
and evidence beyond any
doubt," Jolley says.
Since the U.S. Supreme Court
has upheld the constitutionality
of the death penalty for murder,
many states have approved
similar measures.
'We have no punishment that fits the crime
of murder'
— William Jolley
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