The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday March 29, 1979 FIFTEEN
ays and means of death is grisly topic of Legislature
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By Kathleen Glnnville
Eagle Newspapers Capitol Correspondent
SALEM Last November
the voters overwhelmingly
decided that murderers ought
to be executed. Now the
Legislature must figure put
how to do it.
It's no easy task.
There hasn't been an execu
tion in Oregon since 1962. Not
only are prosecutors, defense
attorneys and judges unfamil
iar with the legal tangles
involved in trying capital
cases, but the state isn't
prepared to execute anyone
eventually convicted.
The gas chamber at the
Oregon State Penitentiary is a
storeroom today. It would
take an estimated $300,000 to
$400,000 to rebuild it and Gov.
Vic Atiyeh didn't put any
money in his budget for a new
gas chamber.
The governor has said it's
unlikely anyone will be exe
cuted in the next two years,
and legal experts agree. The
legal maneuvering has al
ready begun on behalf of three
men charged with murder.
Because so much is at stake
in a murder trial with the
death penalty looming over
the proceedings, those trials
are long and involved.
Prosecutors and defense
attorneys are worried about
the legal issues and the high
cost of trying those cases. A
Houston, Tex., group of legal
specialists expected to draw
more than 100 Oregon attor
neys to a death penalty
seminar scheduled last week
end in Portland.
Rep. Bill Rutherford, R
McMinnville, doesn't want the
state to invest in another gas
chamber. He doesn't favor the
death penalty. And he figures
a state which has repealed and
brought back the death penal
ty twice in the last century
may repeal it again before
anyone is finally condemned
to die.
But he says the Legislature
can't ignore the 2-to-l vote of
the people for the death
penalty.
So he is advocating what he
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says is a painless method of
execution which will cost the
state about $100 execution by
lethal injection.
"Since the death penalty is a
fact, we must look at the
manner in which they are
carried out," said Rutherford
before a House Judiciary
Committee hearing last week.
"I think it would be inappro
priate for Oregon to spend
$300,000 to rebuild a gas
chamber, particularly when
there is a more humane,
inexpensive method available,
one that is far safer to handle
than cyanide gas.
"With a lethal injection, we
can for the first time be
assured that execution is
painless," he said.
Rutherford said historically
executions in the United
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