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From j_som...@gmx.net Mon Jan 31 22:45:12 2005 From: j_som...@gmx.net (Joerg Sommer) Date: Tue Aug 16 12:15:21 2005 Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty news --- S.D., N.C. Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20050131224227.02a11...@mail.stusta.mhn.de> death penalty news January 31, 2005 SOUTH DAKOTA: House panel votes to retain death penalty A move to repeal South Dakota's death penalty was rejected by a House committee Monday after some lawmakers said they believe execution is appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes. The State Affairs Committee voted 10-3 to kill HB1143, which sought to end capital punishment in the state. The measure's main sponsor, Rep. Gerald Lange, D-Madison, said it makes no sense for people to oppose abortion but support execution. Those who consider themselves pro-life should respect life from conception through natural death, he said. Lange said such decisions on vengeance should be left to God. "The master 2005 years ago said revenge is not for us. It is for the Father in heaven," Lange said. But Rep. Thomas Deadrick, R-Platte, said the death penalty is punishment, not revenge. South Dakota's legal system makes sure only guilty people get the death penalty, and those who commit such horrible crimes have forfeited their own lives, he said. House Republican Leader Larry Rhoden, R-Union Center, said he believes it makes sense to oppose abortion but support the death penalty. Abortion takes innocent lives, while the death penalty holds criminals accountable for their acts, he said. Lange and other opponents of the death penalty said that while the Old Testament called for executing criminals, Jesus never endorsed the death penalty. "A life for a life is Old Testament," Lange said. But Rhoden said the Ten Commandments are a foundation for state and federal law. "That doesn't mean the Old Testament by any means is rendered moot." Opponents of the death penalty said it does not deter people from committing crimes, it leads to expensive and lengthy appeals, and it can cause the execution of people later found to be innocent. Execution interferes with the opportunity for people to repent and establish a relationship with God, said the Rev. Roger Easland of the Congregational Church in Pierre. "There's no New Testament evidence that our Lord Jesus Christ would end human life as payment for a crime," Easland said. "It seems to me a society that does this takes on the ultimate decision of God concerning eternal life." Jennifer Ring, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of the Dakotas, said many people sentenced to death in the United States have later been found to be innocent. "When you do the death penalty, you can never correct your mistake," she said. But state Attorney General Larry Long said the four men facing execution in South Dakota are guilty. "We don't have innocent people on death row in South Dakota." South Dakota's citizens support the death penalty, and that policy should be continued, Long said. The four men on South Dakota's death row are: Charles Russell Rhines, convicted of the 1992 killing of Donnivan Schaeffer during the burglary of a Rapid City doughnut shop; Donald Moeller, convicted of the 1990 rape and murder of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell of Sioux Falls; and Briley Piper of Anchorage, Alaska, and Elijah Page of Athens, Texas, who both pleaded guilty to the 2000 beating death of Chester Allan Poage of Spearfish. (source: AP / Aberdeen News) NORTH CAROLINA: Prosecutors to seek death penalty for accused cop killer Prosecutors in Brunswick County announced in court Monday they plan to seek the death penalty against the man accused of killing a local police officer. 19-year-old Darrell Maness of Burlington is accused of killing Boiling Spring Lakes Officer Mitch Prince. Officer Prince stopped Maness on a traffic violation January 18th. Investigators say Maness was worried Prince would find out he was wanted for a parole violation on drug charges. The two scuffled and detectives say Maness grabbed Prince's gun and shot him. They say Maness then fled the scene and was involved in a shootout with police near the Port Motel in Oak Island. Maness is charged with first-degree murder and is being held in the Brunswick County Jail. (source: WECT.com)
