14,1987
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on death row
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ASHINGTON (AP) — One out
of jevery 42 death row inmates has
been executed in the decade since
the Supreme Court reinstated capi
tal jpunishment, the federal govern-
iment reported Sunday.
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NIH here were 2,839 convicts under
a death sentence from 1977 to 1986
and 68 of them were executed, in-
ii'Jitiust, rttpt :c i u fc{ n g 18 last year, the Bureau of
11 i 11 Justice Statistics said. There have
i\ Niunt Mjsvjjggji more than 200,000 murders in
" ( ' r: :he|past decade,
tie special prov g
\ .iher Atlomt Wince 1977, one-third of the of-
iii fenders on death row carried out
General \\ successful court appeals or obtained
HtiM-ii todciM cWunutations of their sentences,
'dv>n is one and 41 died while awaiting execu
tion A total of 1,781 inmates were
if Bork. on death row at the end of last year,
including 18 women.
f those under a death sentence
in tire past decade, some 2.4 percent
weire executed, including 2.7 per-
cent of the white offenders and 2
pen ent of the blacks. At the end of
last year, 57 percent of those or
death row were white, 42 percent
black, and 1 percent were American
Indians or Asian Americans.
More than 60 percent of those
awaiting execution are being held in
the South, 17 percent are in the
West, 15 percent in the Midwest and
5 percent in the Northeast.
Among the 68 executed since
1977, it took an average of six years
and four months from the time the
sentence was imposed until it was
carried out. For the 18 executed last
year, the average time spent await
ing execution was seven years and
two months.
Last year, 10 inmates were exe
cuted in Texas, three in Florida an
one each in Alabama, Georgia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia.
A total of 297 people were sen
tenced to death in 1986, while 64
had their death sentences vacated or
commuted.
At the end of last year, 254 con
demned inmates were being held in
Florida prisons, more than any other
state. Texas had 236 convicts facing
the death penalty, California had
176, Georgia 111 and Illinois 101.
As of last Dec. 31, the death pen
alty was authorized in 37 states and
by federal statute. The last federal
execution was in 1963.
The Supreme Court held that
capital punishment was constitu
tional under strictly defined condi
tions in 1976 and the first execution
following that decision was carried
out in 1977.
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§«ANGKOK, Thailand (AP) —
Vietnam is releasing 6,685 prison
ers, including generals and senior
officials of the South Vietnamese re
gime it toppled in 1975, the official
Vietnam News Agency said Sunday.
The agency said the communist
government ordered the amnesty
and reduced the terms for 5,320
other prisoners to mark two anniver
saries.
Among those granted amnesty
were 480 military and civilian per
sonnel of the former South Viet
namese government, including two
ministers, 18 administrative officials,
nine officers of general rank, 248
field officers and 117 junior officers,
it said.
M?i$They were all convicted of crimes
against the people,” said the agency,
monitored in Bangkok.
flfti'ter the communist victory over
South Vietnam in 1975 following the
withdrawal of U.S. forces, tens of
thousands of South Vietnamese
were sent to re-education camps.
The official news agency’s report
said the Council of Ministers
granted the amnesty to mark Na
tional Day Sept. 2 and the 42nd an
niversary Aug. 19 of Vietnam’s “Au
gust Revoludon,” when a communist
government was first proclaimed in
North Vietnam.
It said 365 prisoners were re
leased in Ho Chi Minh City — for
merly Saigon — where authorities
“provided material and moral condi
tions for their quick reintegration
into social life.”
After their victory, the commu
nists set up a network of up to 100
re-educadon camps that critics de
scribed as the “Vietnamese Gulag.”
In 1980, Hanoi told the London-
based human rights organization
Amnesty International that 1 million
people underwent short re-educa
tion courses and 40,000 were de
tained for longer periods.
Western sources believe that up to
200,000 South Vietnamese spent at
least a year in the camps, which
range from “model” institutions vis
ited by foreigners to remote jungle
shacks where inmates die of malnu
trition and disease.
Former inmates and other sources
interviewed in recent years said the
systematic brutality found in early
Soviet labor camps was not the policy
in Vietnam, but that there were oc
casional beatings, torture and execu
tions.
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Auto union workers prepare
for strike as deadline nears
DEARBORN, -Mich. (AP) —
Strike preparations are all but com
plete at the locals of the United Auto
Workers as negotiators for Ford Mo
tor Co. and the union face today’s
contract deadline.
For the 104,000 rank-and-file
Ford Motor Co. workers, little was
left to do but wait for word on
whether union and company bar
gainers would reach a contract by
thej 11:59 p.m. deadline today. The
talks resumed Sunday after a Satur
day session that lasted late into the
night.
The top Ford bargainers, Vice
President Peter Pestillo and Labor
Relations Director Stanley Surma,
said talks with Ford would go all
night if necessary.
UAW President Owen Bieber
planned to meet with the union’s 23-
member executive board Sunday
evening, but a UAW spokesman de
clined to give a reason for the gath
ering of union executives and re
gional directors.
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