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Death Penalty Comes Back In The Golden West
iAN FRANCISCO, Calif.— vear. t.Vio <3,, . ,, .. . ..
College Station, Texas
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif,
the death penalty has had it.
tere is no question that the
iue of the public execution is
ter/' says Anthony Amsterdam,
lanford law professor and the
i»n who argued against the
ath penalty before the U.S.
opreme Court. His statement
the more surprising in view
the recent success of Cali-
trnia's proposition amendment
the state constitution which
ifalizes the death penalty for
ertain crimes.
1972 may well be remembered
the year of conflict over cap-
tal punishment. On Feb. 18 this
Ag Stump
ers
year, the California Supreme
Court declared death a form of
cruel and unusual punishment.
The decision brought Angela
Davis out on bail, saved Cali
fornia’s 106 men on Death Row,
and brought about a violent con
troversy within the state. Gover
nor Reagan and State Attorney
General Evelle Younger immedi
ately tried to appeal the decision
and organized an initiative ballot
to amend California’s constitu
tion.
On June 29 the boom fell, as
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
(5-4) that the death penalty, as
presently administered, was in
violation of the Eighth Amend
ment to the Constitution. On that
same day, Proposition 17, provid
ing capital punishment for eight
crimes, qualified for the Cali
fornia ballot. Last week, three
and one-half months later, Propo
sition 17 swept the state with a
two-to-one majority and wrote
legalized murder expressly into
the California constitution.
To the supporters of the propo
sition in California, this means
that the public has spoken, pro
nouncing a clear mandate for
death penalties in certain cases,
leaving the door open for others,
at the discretion of the legisla
tors.
But to Anthony Amsterdam,
and to the opponents of Proposi
tion 17, the decision of the voters
on Nov. 7 doesn’t mean much at
all.
Critics of the death penalty
aren’t dismayed by Proposition
17’s success because they see the
death penalty being phased out
of our society in a broad fashion.
“No one really wants the death
sentence any more,” said Anthony
Amsterdam in a recent interview.
“The governor commutes them,
judges don’t recommend them,
juries don’t ask for them, and
neither do the prosecutors. The
public can always be whipped up
by men such as Younger, but
when it comes down to it, no one
wants to do the killing.”
Amsterdam supports his state
ment by pointing out that in the
last five years the death sen
tences of 1200 men and women
have been delayed or commuted,
mostly by the work of five law
yers and their offices. “With the
resources that the supporters of
Proposition 17 had at their con
trol, including unofficial memos
to all law officers in the state
asking them to ‘volunteer’ to cir
culate petitions and campaign for
the proposition, with these re
sources, and the confused word
ing of the amendment, it is
almost laughable that they only
managed to get a two-to-one
majority.”
In fact, some of the terms of
Proposition 17 seem in open con
tradiction with the Supreme
Court decision. Of the eight
crimes proposed for the death
penalty, four cannot be reinstated
because of the Supreme Court’s
ruling that capital punishment
must be mandatory and not left
to the discretion of judge or jury.
Also included among the eight are
trainwrecking, which went out
with Jesse James, and perjury
resulting in death of an innocent
person—which has never been
prosecuted. The legislature, which
was supposed to have the right
to broaden these categories, has
now discovered that it has to
narrow crimes to keep them with
in the guidelines set by the court.
The only real crime that comes
under the proposition is assault
by a life inmate resulting in
death, and Younger, the state’s
attorney general, doesn’t think
that prosecution for such a crime
could be cleared for five years.
The proponents of Proposition
17 have waged an expensive, sen
sational campaign which may
have gotten them nowhere. The
statute leaves the legislators en
crusted with confusion, and in
any case the ACLU is planning
to appeal it to the Supreme Court,
where they may have a good
chance of winning.
Amsterdam has summarized the
aftermath of Proposition 17 for
California: “The results of 17
are misleading of public senti
ment; in 1960 (when Caryl Chess
man was executed) it would have
gone the other way. (Besides) I
don’t believe there is cause for
alarm. All Proposition 17 did was
to put three obsolete capital
statutes on the books.”
Norfolk Seaman Convicted Of Arson On Aircraft Carrier
NORFOLK, Va. (A*) — Seaman
Apprentice Jeffrey Allison was
convicted Thursday of setting the
$7.5-million fire that damaged
the aircraft carrier Forrestal
July 10.
The slender, freckled Allison
was sentenced to five years at
hard labor and will be given a
bad conduct discharge.
Although he paled at the ver
dict, the 19-year-old Oakland,
Calif., sailor did not change ex
pression. During arguments on
sentencing, his father, a Califor
nia highway patrolman for nearly
24 years, stared out a window
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and his mother, wearing dark
glasses, began to cry.
The military judge, Capt. Wil
liam E. Neely, found Allison guil
ty of arson, sabotage, destruction
of military property and hazard
ing a vessel, and guilty also of
six specifications involving pos
session and distribution of the
drugs LSD and mescaline.
Neely, at 60 one of the Navy’s
most experienced legal officers,
found the young sailor innocent
Campus
of only one charge — attempting
to sell LSD to another sailor.
The Forrestal fire took place
while the carrier was docked at
the Navy shipyard. It delayed
her deployemnt to the Mediter
ranean for two months.
The sentence automatically will
be appealed to higher levels of
Navy command and eventually
could be channeled into civilian
federal courts.
Prosecutor Lt. Kenneth M.
Greene had asked Neely to sen
tence Allison to “in the neighbor
hood of 20 years” as well as a
dishonorable discharge. He could
have asked for a life sentence.
But, Greene said, the govern
ment “does not require anything
near life — only a portion.”
Allison’s civilian defense attor
ney, Stanley Sacks, argued: “If
drugs were the cause of it, there
was no motive, no planning, no
premeditation.”
Pointing at Allison, who was
staring down at the table in front
of him, Sacks told the military
judge:
“Jeffrey Allison was a victim
of the drug problem ... He got
exposed to what too many young
people get exposed to . . . We
are all human, and we all make
mistakes.”
Meeting with newsmen after
the verdict, Allison’s father, Dus
tin “Dusty” Allison, said he still
was convinced his only son was
innocent.
John L. Sempe of Houston has
been awarded Alpha Phi Omega’s
highest honor, the Distinguished
Service Key.
TAMU’s Xi Delta chapter of
the national service fraternity
made the pz-esentation at its fall
awards banquet Wednesday.
★ ★ ★
Robert Charles Raiford of San
Antonio, an electrical engineering
student scheduled to graduate
Saturday, has been cited by the
institution’s engineering faculty
for outstanding achievement.
★ ★ ★
The U. S. Navy’s Office of Na
val Research (ONR), in coopera
tion with A&M’s Texas Maritime
Academy, will present a three-
day “Marine Resources” seminar
here Jan. 5-7.
Speakers include Navy Reserve
and civilian authorities in marine
resources. The seminar is coordi
nated by Naval Research Reserve
Co. 8-3 in College Station, com
manded by Lt. Cmdr. Robert Mer-
rifield, head of TAMU’s Forest
Science Department.
A dinner-reception opens the
sessions at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan.
5, in the Square-Rigger Room of
the Flagship Hotel. Seminar pro
grams, housing and meals will be
on board the TMA training ship
Texas Clipper, docked at the
Mitchell Campus. The cost is $15.
Nixon Picks Brinegar To Replace
Volpe As Transportation Secretary
C. A MP n A \7Tn AA.l 103\ T3 v . . , _ •L
CAMP DAVID, Md. (^—Pres
ident Nixon added a new face to
his virtually complete second
term Cabinet Thursday, nominat
ing California oil company exec
utive Claude S. Brinegar to re
place John A. Volpe as Transpor
tation secretary,
Volpe was nominated to be
ambassador to Italy, the first
Italian-American selected for the
Rome post.
The announcements by press
secretary Ronald L. Ziegler at
the mountain-top retreat where
Nixon has spent most of the
month since his re-election left
only one Cabinet nomination —
attorney general — yet to be dis
closed.
Officials say there is little
question but that Richard Klein-
dienst will be retained in that
slot.
Brinegar, a 45-year-old Repub
lican, economist and racing car
buff, is the third new face to be
picked for the Cabinet.
New York labor leader Peter
Brennan was brought into re
place James Hodgson as Labor
secretary, and South Carolina
textile manufacturer Frederick
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B. Dent to replace Peter G. Pe
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Otherwise, Cabinet members
were kept in their positions,
shifted from one department to
another or promoted from with
in the ranks.
Ziegler said Brinegar will di
vest himself of his holdings in
Union Oil Co. where he is sen
ior vice president as well as pres
ident of the Union 76 division.
Brinegar received his doctor
ate in economic research from
Stanford University in 1953,
joined Union Oil as an economist-
analyst and worked his way up
through company ranks.
He is a director of the Ameri
can Petroledm Institute and lives
with his wife and three children
in Rolling Hills, Calif. He also
lived for a while in Yorba Linda,
Calif., Nixon’s home town, and
was a visiting instructor at Whit
tier College, the President’s alma
mater.
But Ziegler said Nixon did not
know Brinegar until he made a
trip to Camp David to discuss
the transportation department
post.
Brinegar is a director of the
Daytona Speedway and Ziegler
said “he likes cars.”
Both Volpe and Brinegar must
be confirmed by the Senate.
Volpe would succeed career
diplomat Graham Martin, who
has held the Rome post since
September 1969.
Ziegler said Martin will be “re
ceiving another important as
signment in the administration
in the second term.”
The President put aside con
sideration of his second term re
organization plan temporarily
Thursday to confer with six
budget advisors.
Library Gets
$500 Grant
The A&M Library Wednesday
received a $500 unrestricted grant
from the TAMU Chapter, Society
of Sigma Xi.
Dr. James G. Teer, society pres
ident and Wildlife Science De
partment head, presented the
award noting the 700-member
group is the university’s largest
honorary society with objectives
to further research and scholar
ship.
Library Director John Smith
pointed out this is the fourth an
nual gift from the society, bring
ing total contributions to $2,000
since 1969. The funds are used to
purchase proceedings of interna
tional conferences and society
members can suggest purchases.
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