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ByTSHRYMUTCHLER Behe explained that the judicial ) makers yesterday unveiled legis- everything the systern hasi set aside Dow Jones’s average of 30 big- In the economic news, the Federal ■
Collegian Staff Writer process leading up to a death sen- HBBfflSllliliilflflraß ' ' lation aimed at rescuing the troubled as a buffer against bad loans, the name stocks gained 4.93 to 1,440.02, Reserve reported that the economy H
T, ~ ~ . fence cari sometimes be complicated. 1 Farm Credit System, including as 3 system says. , surpassing the previous closing peak operated at 80.2 percent of industrial H
he 70-year-old oak chair He said that the death penalty is only BMMBMMSH 1 Ml i billion backup line of credit. Both the system and its regulatory 0 f 1,439.22 reached on Thursday. Oth- capacity in October, down from 80.4 H
squarely faces the plate issued in cases of first degree mur- BMBBiM Mi ! The measure, to be formally intro- f. gen^ y ’ the r er, broader market indicators re- percent the month before. 1
glass window of a witness der. The homicidal act, he said, must HHSBHHMugHrang IxBIaMgBHBBWg MHHf me ' uc muu tion, have asked Congress for a line of «
room at the State Correctional Insti- be an intentional killing and it must ■HHnraKBII igsgi|Mm duced today Dy House Agriculture crec jit 0 f up to $6 billion to tide it over |TniTrnMi Mill 1111 illli i<m llliilllillfriinTTgrgfWTflTtlirnTO'illTnrrirTill'' ■mum iiinimuiimiimjxa
tution at Rockview. The sandy-brown be a specific type of intentional kill- , msgsm Committee Chairman luka de la Gar- the next three years. ' omiiiiiimiiiimwii*-; i ... ~
leather straps bolted to its arms and ing. , 888 za, D-Texas, and three other senior The bill co-sponsored by Reps. Ed , • •' //
legs are scratched and worn, and a Proving that, however, is not an v ! , 'i S'yf&zt&W&a ■ committee members, calls lor j ones> D-Tenn., Edward Madigan,'R- l . \\ ■ • ■ \\'
depression of the chair’s legs can be easy task within the judicial circuits v stronger regu ation of the loosely knit m an d Tom Coleman, R-Mo., would . .\v •\v • /
seen in the greyish rubber mat on of our society. TIWPiMMi ; vMB,' J • •? provide the financial help only if the ‘' •'•••• ••• • ' . • •■' ‘ •'
which the ominous piece of wood For example, according to title 42 fIF If IWztimigm j streamlining ot tC6 s cumbersome S y S t em ’s regulators certify that FCS L/»/| Ml |J M 1 V - -'sn- os-l/V ] \
rests. of Purdon’s Pennsylvania Consol- |fl f fHH .V M AwWVi 1 orgamzatlon - has done everything it reasonably
Since Feb. 23, 1915 when John idated Statutes Annotated, the com- If} II 1 HMafflWß'v JHIB j Whether financial aid should be can to help itself. Whether the aid is ._p*="'
Talap was executed for killing his plexity arises in the decision-making |lf I j fras ‘'s' jmBBBBg included in any package for the sys- ultimately provided would be up to [
wife 347 men and 2 women have sat process of the jury. Lii J f ! a tern, whose size would make it the the secretary of the Treasury. v.v.j-^
in this chair of death. On April 2,1962, First, the jury must decide the TS\ J| I i nation’s third-largest bank if it were a Under the proposal, the Farm
Elmo Smith was led into the death extent of the murder: first, second or ' • 1 I normal commercial institution, has Credit Administration would be reor- w»k WbBHBm I : a\
chamber for the rape and slaying of third degree. According to title 42, 'lf .*! been the subject of hot debate. The ganized and strengthened, giving it L |
16-year-old Mary Ann Mitchell in “after a verdict of first degree mur- Reagan administration has resisted more of an “arm’s-length” regulato- H W&Jm wpIMIi \
Montgomery County. At 9:04 p.m. he der is recorded and before the jury is ' . ‘/-if j any effort at financial aid, arguing ry role. H r i
vlas pronounced dead and the chair discharged, the court conducts a sep- ’ ■ 4M that the s y stem has untapped re- The revamped agency would have H I §,
has not been used since. arate sentencing hearing” to decide if : ‘ sources it can use. new powers of examination, would I [ „
Under the order of former state the penalty for the crime shall be ■ xhe system, the nation’s largest require fully audited annual reports fl L - I
Attorney General Fred Speaker, the death. ■■■- farm lender, is suffering along with of each system institution and would I
chair was dismantled and removed The statute states that the death jWHff' the rest of the agriculture sector from be able to force a halt to any practices f )_ . 0
from its chamber in 1971 when the penalty shall be handed down if the JbBBB Mm . the most serious rural depression in it regarded as unsound. VHBH I |
space was converted to counseling jury unanimously finds at least one !"JHH WPffr decades. Farmland values the Self-help features in the Agricul- 1 X]
rooms Capital punishment was re- aggravating circumstance and no SBmm A VSb:l! collateral for the bulk of the system’s ture Committee members’ proposal VH■ L_ r S
instated by Pennsylvania s General mitigating circumstances, or that the - JHBBBfI ,’ 11 ' i Fcißm'Jjl loans have plummeted up to 50 would provide for a central pool of H MBHBBBL ! I
norr^nstallejiLmtil^Aug! are ercen ’°^ er ’’| e^ >aS ’’’ Ve^ earS ’ n ” ,e availablefinandngt°bouacd ~ - i [
day. Keith ZetHemoyer was sched- vatlng circumstance^ '■ ji mand than expected, a senior buyer offer’s deadline, for IBM to complete f|| M
uled to be electrocuted Dec. 3. But the code. \ in the University’s purchasing de- the deal, but the response was sucji B
convictedoniilhng'a witless who was al"computers to Mi-time (acuity, the north end of Beaver Stadium, 9 i '
to testify against him in a robbery staff, and students through the Uni- Nov. 22, 25 and 26, he said. P___ _ L*. J.A iLu —. A I L
ca “- —ay Lori Howard oOmG mornings are better than others.
If the • defendant has no previous
record, is emotionally disturbed or
under duress, the jurors can view
these instances as mitigating circum
stances. The jury can also take into
consideration: the defendant’s age at
the time of the crime; whether or not
the victim participated or consented
to the crime; the defendant’s charac
ter; and the extent of the defendant’s
But in order for the men to petition participation in the crime,
the court to reargue each of their But no matter what the penal code
cases, the state Supreme Court states as prerequisites and justifica- ap userphoto 840 A\ / T""} 9 B
stayed the executions of the three tion for its use, the electric chair and fi II / VaYcteV i
convicted killers. virtually all forms of capital punish- The death chamber at Rockview houses the only electric chair in the stale, in the chair. In the rear of the chamber the stay of execution phone can be seen. 8 jLILs V vE.fc.l\ JLJfAn I nppric-
Lesko, Travaglia and Zettlemoyer ment have been staunchly argued. Twenty-three hundred volts of electricity will pass through the individual seated It has only rung once a wrong number. < Bg' ~ -> "ccUb.
are in solitary confinement, under Rev. John Stamm, senior pastor at i It inc* A tUt rtViV«3. INIRTRIIf'TFRR FOR
direct supervision by corrections offi- St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Engelhardt said that he believes The electrical system delivers 2,300 the April 10,1916 execution. asked why he replied, “don’t want I umjUVfc , rmTQ 191 rac FII A 111
cers. Lesko is incarcerated at the 109 McAllister St., said he really has the death penalty is just a way for our volts. Robinson put this amount of According to Negley King Teeters to.” > LO |Ub l BAbt II &Ml
State Correctional Institution at Gra- grave misgivings about the reinstate- society to “even up the score and electricity in perspective. author of the book Scaffold and the “At the moment, no one’s asked me Q ,_k\- V WORLD PERFECT
terford. Both Travaglia and Zettle- ment of the death penalty. satisfy our need for revenge.” “I read where (the volts) would Chair; a compilation of their use in to do such a thing (and) I have no Symphony
moyer are c ? n f. * n I m absolutely convinced that kill- The 35-year-old minister said that move a locomotive train,” said Rob- Pennsylvania 2682-1362, MikeLouissa reason to do so,” he said “I don’t v *7"
Correctional Institution at Hunting- ing under any circumstances is cont- capital punishment is surely not the inson. was electrocuted for killing his wife know, I can’t say hypothetically.” A'r" h*ttbura<irj CALL 237-9000
don. Visits f°r all of them arc restrict- rary to the Christian faith,” he said, with an umbrella in Schuylkill Coun- Since Pennsylvania’s first electric l i iv Cv-A; ''
ed by law to immediate family It tends to make us insensitive. ty. The executioner was a student at chair execution in 1915. Dublic ODinion Y\Q-M- v-Ct 4h(Llr difl OuWOTf 536 Westerly Parkway 16801
members, iegal counse l and clergy Penn State. has represented both sides pf the ,
Chief Deputy District Attorney Wil
liam Behe, who is representing the
Commonwealth for all appeals in the
Zettlemoyer case, said that because
of the finality of the penalty each case
deserves at least an initial review by
every channel of relief available.
“I don’t think the court grants stays
due to squemishness or anything of
that nature,” he said. “I think they
are affording the petitioner every
available opportunity to litigate the
novel issues or new issues that were
not presented before, basically due to
the very nature of the penalty.”
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Pictured above is a cell used to house the condemned Individual before he or
she is taken to the execution chamber. The prisoner is only allowed visits from
Immediate family and clergy while on death row.
But, Stamm, who received his
bachelor of ministry and master of
sacred theology degrees from Drew
University, said he realizes that
many crimes necessitate a harsh
punishment but in his opinion, not
death.
“I don’t have any sympathy for
those who kill in cold blood and I don’t
think they should get back into socie
ty relatively quickly,” he said.
Stephen D. Engelhardt, a member
of the United Ministry at Penn State
said, “At heart, I am oppossed to
death penalty. I’m not at all con
vinced that it deters crime.”
answer. He said he belives that if a
crime is punishable by death, then
the defendant should be incarcerated
for life, not killed.
“Further,” he said, “(the de
fendant) shouldn’t be put back into
society unless they show beyond a
shadow of a doubt, over a long period
of time, they’ve turned their life
around.”
Engelhardt admitted that his su
perficial reaction to persons con-
victed of heinous crimes can
sometimes be one of anger. However,
he added, that when he rationally
contemplates the issue, he under
stands what the better judgment is.
“Ultimately, yeah, there is a part
of me that says, kill the 5.0.8 I’m
human too,” he said. “But when I sit
back and think about it, I know better
(and) it’s not right.”
But Behe said he disagrees.
“(The death penalty) most definite
ly has a place in our criminal justice
system,” he said.
“Some people feel that some
crimes are so heinous that life in
prison is not adequate punishment. It
is not barbaric to consider the death
penalty purely and simply as punish
ment.”
Still others argue that the physical
aspects of the execution process are
inhumane
Prisons Spokesman Ken Robinson,
of Harrisburg, explained the process
that a convicted individual undergoes
prior to electrocution.
When a convicted individual ar
rives at the site of execution, he said,
his identity is verified and he is
searched. His head and left leg be
tween the ankle and the knee is
shaved and the outside seam of the
left trouser leg is ripped open about
two inches in order to facilitate the
attachment of the chair’s leg elec
trode.
The inmate is led, unshackled, into
the death chamber by a team of three
corrections officers. Two other cor
rection officers, both volunteers, then
strap the condemned individual into
the chair. The executioner, whose
indentity remains anonymous, places
the head gear on the individual, at
taches the leg strap and then attaches
the electodes to both.
When he is given permission to
proceed, the executioner will first
turn on a voltage switch and then an
amperage switch to ready the control
panel. He increases and decreases
the amount of voltage five times
before shutting the current off. The
convicted individual’s vital signs are
then checked by a physician. If he is
pronounced dead, the electrodes are
removed.
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In spite of the argument that execu
tion is inhumane, Behe said that the
U.S. Supreme Court has acknowl
edged that the death penaly does
have a deterrent effect on crime.
“Many offenses for which the death
penalty is imposed are not the type of
crimes that, in my opinion, a deter
rent effect would work on,” Behe
said. He substantiated his argument
by citing the example of a contract
killer.
Behe said he didn’t believe that a
person who was hired to kill another
would be deterred simply by thinking
he may get a life sentence for his
actions.
Another argument on which many
opponents of the death penalty stand
is premised from a written work
more than 3,000 years old the Ten
Commandments. Located in the Old
Testament of the Bible, the sixth
order from God states that “Thou
shalt not kill.” (Deut. 5:17).
Although advocates of the death
penalty dispute this argument’s va
lidity, Stamm said, “the basic com
mandment is a sufficient stone to
stand on.” He added that even the
teachings of Christ in the New Testa
ment did not advocate death, but
rather “put a supreme emphasis on
life.”
One retired priest who had been
with condemned prisoners at Rock
view during their executions would
not elaborate on his experiences.
“I’ve been there a few times,” the
Rev. Richard Walsh said. “I don’t
want to go over that again I won’t
discuss it.”
As the controversy of the penalty
continues, the fact remains that capi
tal punishment has been reinstated
within the Commonwealth. However,
there are a group of individuals on
campus who are trying to alter the
legislation.
The Rev. Earl Henry, rector of the
Penn State Catholic Center, said that
a petition was circulated and last
Thursday it was sent to Thornburgh.
“(Theorganization) Pax Christi, or
peace of Christ, originally started the
petition,” he said.
“Most of the noise they make is
usually about abortion, but captial
punishment fits under the same um
brella,” Henry said.
The petition, signed by about 1,000
people, stated that those who signed it
were opposed to the death penalty
and requested that the governor stop
the exectutions “before people die at
the hands of the state.”
Petitioning was also done in the
1960 s when Smith was executed. Del
ving back into history, though, Penn
State played a very different role in
Although petitioning may be an
alternative in the hopes of settling the
controversy, state Rep. Lynn Her
man, R-Centre, said he believes it
should be settled in the governor’s
office and the court.
“I think that that issue has been
decided judicially and the it has al
ready been decided legislatively,” he But despite the conflicting opinions
said. “I have no personal interest or surrounding the death penalty, the
impeteus to change it at the mo- law still stands death is a viable
ment.” punishment. And for the 54 individu-
When asked if he would enact legis- als on death row of which the
lation if a petition were submitted to youngest is 19 —it is the way in which
him, Herman said, “No.” When they are scheduled to die.
Three cells used to confine individuals scheduled to die can be seen above. The
six cells located behind the execution room are commonly called “Death Row.’’
ideological spectrum. Some chant its
fairness because they say they be
lieve the judgment is a just one for
committing heinous crimes and they
argue that it is a deterrent. Yet others
believe that no one in society has the
right to take another life under any
circumstances.
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