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Former Oregon Sen. and Gov. Mark Hatfield pauses while recounting how, as governor, he refused to commute the sentence of a death row
prisoner. The resulting anguish, he says, helped turn him against the death penalty.
Conference
continued from page 1
Prejean, who has witnessed four
executions in Louisiana since Son
nier’s, talked about her experiences
with death row inmates and the im
pact of those experiences on her
work. She said she does not want to
persuade people to oppose the
death penalty but wants to present
people with both sides of the issue.
“I want to bring people to both
sides of the issue and make people
reflect,” Prejean said. “Because I
was a witness, I should tell people
my story.... People need to hear it. ”
2001-02 Wayne Morse Chair Pro
fessor Charles Ogletree Jr., who
hosted the conference, said the
event was intended to look at both
sides of the death penalty debate in
a dispassionate way. But there were
some who thought death penalty
supporters were underrepresented
"at the conference.
“My concern is whether this is a
rally or a discussion,” said Clatsop
County district attorney Josh Mar
quis. “If it’s a discussion, there
should not be a 8-1 or 9-1 ratio.”
Marquis said as the only person
at the conference who knew Sen.
Wayne Morse personally, he was
concerned that there wasn’t more
debate.
“I think he would’ve been really
pleased with the conference, but dis
appointed by the lack of debate,”
Marquis said of the late Morse,
whom he described as an “incredi
ble man” and a “contrarian” who
“sacrificed his political career by op
posing the Vietnam War.”
Marquis also took issue with
Ryan’s inclusion as a keynote
speaker. He referred to Ryan as a
“fraud” who used the death penalty
debate to save himself politically.
Opposition to the format of the
conference came to a head Friday
afternoon when Crime Victims
United, a Portland area victims’
rights group, held a press confer
ence outside the EMU. Last week
CVU blasted the conference in a
press release, saying the number of
death penalty opponents giving
keynote addresses made true de
bate impossible.
At the press conference, CVU
president Steve Doell said the
Charles Ogletree Jr., Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics, host of the conference
and staunch death penalty opponent, listens to proponent Robert Blecker’s address.
conference was nothing more than
a “political pep rally” put on by
death penalty opponents and ac
cused event organizers of “aca
demic fascism.”
“I want to bring people to
both sides of the issue and
make people reflect.
Because I was a witness, I
should tell people my story.
... People need to hear it. ”
Sister Helen Prejean
author, ‘Dead Man Walking’
Doell repeated the press release’s
call for Oregon Attorney General
Hardy Myers to investigate whether
organizers had violated Oregon law
by using public funds to promote a
political cause.
Doell, whose daughter was killed
in 1992 by an underage drunk driv
er and who characterized himself
as the father of a murder victim,
said a vast majority of Oregonians
support the current system. He
brushed aside talk of reform and
said that, if anything, the death
penalty needs to be carried out in
“a quicker, more efficient manner.”
“People refer to murderers and
their families as victims,” Doell said.
Pointing to several local family
members of murder victims who
had accompanied him, he declared
“these are the real victims.”
But Ogletree disagreed that the
conference was biased and called
the assertion “shameful.” He ac
cused Doell and Marquis of “drive
by slander.”
“What I found tragic was the
character assassination of Governor
Ryan,” Ogletree said. “Governor
Ryan is a tough Republican who be
lieves in the death penalty. But he
wants to get it right.”
Ogletree, whose sister, brother-in
law and uncle were victims of mur
der, also dismissed the assertion that
death penalty opponents were
somehow belittling the rights and
emotions of victims’ families.
“There are few people in the au
dience who have not been vic
tims,” he said. “Victimization is
widespread.”
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Katie Ellis at katieellis@dailyemerald.com.
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