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Verfasser: Gunar Datum: Dienstag, den 27. Januar 2004, um 13:26 Uhr Betrifft: Erster Erfolg zur Abschaffung von Utahs Blutsühne
Das Repräsentantenhaus von Utah hat einem Gesetzesentwurf zugestimmt, das die Hinrichtung durch Erschießung abschaffen soll. Der Entwurf geht nun an den Senat von Utah. Der Entwurf enthält eine Klausel, die die Wiedereinführung beinhaltet, falls die andere Hinrichtungsmethode, durch die Giftspritze, verboten werden sollte.
Der im Artikel erwähnte Ron Lafferty ist ja bestens aus Krakauers Buch "Mord im Auftrag Gottes" bekannt.
Im September hatte die HLT-Kirche offiziell mitgeteilt, nicht gegen eine Abschaffung opponieren zu wollen.
House OKs bill against firing squad
By Rebecca Walsh
The Salt Lake TribuneState Rep. Sheryl Allen has been waiting for this -- for seven years.
A convincing majority of Utah House members voted Monday for Allen’s legislation to eliminate the firing squad as an execution option for condemned killers.
The Bountiful Republican tried to pursuade her colleagues to do away with the choice in 1996 after convicted murderer John Albert Taylor’s request for a firing squad death created an international media frenzy. But Allen eventually dropped the bill for lack of support.
This year, spurred on by three more death-row inmates’ requests for a firing squad, Allen tried again. She said she wants to quash media circuses like those that surrounded past executions.
"When we have used the firing squad, it has been a magnet for international attention," Allen said. "The attention is on the method of the execution, not the crime that was committed, or the victim, or the victim’s family."
Stansbury Park Democratic Sen. Ron Allen is sponsoring similar legislation in the Senate.
Utah death-row inmates can choose between the firing squad and lethal injection. Only two other states -- Idaho and Oklahoma -- still execute prisoners using a firing squad. But in those states, the inmates cannot choose. Three Utah inmates -- Troy Michael Kell, Ronald Lafferty and Ralph Menzies -- also have requested a firing squad.
When Taylor was executed seven years ago for raping and strangling 11-year-old Charla King in Washington Terrace, dozens of television crews, including reporters from France, Italy and Japan, came to town to film Wild West "frontier justice." Taylor was the first inmate in the United States to die by firing squad since Utah executed Gary Gilmore in 1977.
State Rep. Greg Hughes, R-Draper, said such publicity isn’t necessarily a bad thing. He argued against Allen’s bill. "I fear we have this desire to sanitize the process, so it’s not too offensive for our senses," he said. "It’s like trying to put alcohol on a cotton ball and rubbing it on the [inmate’s] arm before you give the lethal injection.
"We should make no bones about it, if it’s something we believe in."
But Salt Lake City Democratic Rep. Scott Daniels doesn’t believe in the death penalty. And he pleaded in vain with House members not to worry about the mode of execution, but to do away with capital punishment altogether.
"The question here is a little more fundamental," he said. "History will look back on us, and our children and grandchildren will say, ’Why did they think it was OK?’ Whether it’s done with lethal injection or another method, it’s fundamentally wrong. Should we as a society be stooping to their level and taking away life?"
But Daniels is one of few legislators opposed to the death penalty. And Allen’s task became a little easier last September when officials of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints said they would not object to doing away with the firing squad. Some Mormons believe murderers’ blood must be spilled to make up for their crimes -- so-called "blood atonement," an idea taught by some early church leaders but never practiced by the church.
After adopting an amendment by Spanish Fork GOP Rep. Mike Morley to reinstate the firing squad if U.S. courts ever conclude lethal injection is unconstitutional, 57 of 73 House members voted to send Allen’s bill on to the Senate.
Erster Erfolg zur Abschaffung von Utahs Blutsühne – Gunar, 27.1.04 um 13:26 Uhr
Heuchelei – Martin007, 27.1.04 um 17:59 Uhr
Senat hat zugestimmt – Gunar, 21.2.04 um 3:03 Uhr
Ich frage mich nur – Trzoska, 21.2.04 um 18:54 UhrGiftspritze – Renate, 21.2.04 um 19:42 UhrMormonismus, Glaubensdoktrin, und die moderne Wissenschaft – Mykonos, 17.2.15 um 14:26 UhrReligiöse Kosmologien als Sinnverstärker und Apologetik – Utnapischtim, 16.2.15 um 20:04 Uhr"Psychologie der Religionen" – Mykonos, 16.2.15 um 18:03 UhrU.a. von Religionspsychologie bis zur Archäogenetik... – Utnapischtim, 16.2.15 um 11:46 UhrDu meinst: There’s life in the old dog yet - oder: Totgesagte leben länger – Mykonos, 16.2.15 um 1:58 UhrUnsicherheit? – Utnapischtim, 15.2.15 um 15:35 UhrAgonie...? – Mykonos, 15.2.15 um 14:47 UhrBald ist es soweit: "nächste Tage = 2 Monate"
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