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BvMCKI DONAHUE-• / hltfcen sfett Writer-: '?‘:: -I The .jf^ona? SupreineCotiiT: today S: a unaBimpus ;-opinion; ^dpIeldvMzona.’s ^atfi^pen^ty,--' / sayiog^ ifedoM;/ state’s• j‘‘ again' st • crael/MMusual • pun- ■: r.ishment-5^#££.r*■1:••:;•' -.■:■'u-.fw • --- -} ./The/opiitf bit ; does .-not; mean: ;;’1hat d^eg^^ebiition : must.be; : thfe^fmeh; eii^entty/pn •;/.tiEThe States ?^^remd• Court i^es tiiis summer on coii- •; stittdonality;- of-the death penaf-' -V. c:: I ..//./■/■.•• • ;: sjafe; tiiigTi courti: iEL^sii' oftffljon • /auteed/: by;; Justice;/ v iy^mesT)dkfe;Gameron, ^idtt is ^■ coiiit,. to abplisirliie:deaW pen- ■•:-./aItydc;'Ari2oha.-^'-:s• i t j . . • - ■ * . *• .. • • •O* - * W -^msppp§;(UH):::law•May aidyiil but^deu^ed Gongress bf. pro-adding: /of solit1;tipns totMi critical problem of -. court-prdered scfiM’busing; Thela^Mays .imtft Jaxmary^lSM, ’ implementation of such'orders, that cajisMil be appealed*::■ “The moratorium;.. is tern* -• pbrary;^ the. relief it provides is ■illusory,’''Nixon' said in: a'statement criticizing the Demobratie-eontrolled Congress for failure to pass his recommendations for dealing with school busiiig.The President had proposed a moratorium bn enforcement of all court-ordered busing •• until • Jan. 1,1974, and enactment of standards for school desegregation to make busing a last-resort measure.; : Tiie rrtditi^;; 'difeeflfy^con- • ^ Supreme ebuih/whichin ■iaMrh^d: sentence/for^Rpbert^D^nfc:'•' V: sohv of.; Phoeiiii; ' wlib; fpleaded ■■ ■::v■*■ *••.'■- ' V-.:- !?V.:■ -in the back; and -side after being .forced to lie face do\vn: in a istdr- ; . age room. Endersoh also is dp-pealing.a Second, death sentence ?°J M 1967 murder on a Phoenix rape victim.'.“The defendant argues That:the- peaalty is cruel and .rvas; er- ‘. : roneously imposed in tbafc:lt -,: tuolates both the United'-States ••;- ™iu: . Atizoha ;;cohstitiiiitjns,%I1 ■: which protect • -citizens' ‘ from -cinel and unusual punishment/’ Caineron wrote/ -I I • • . ***•,’.• • ’ ’ .*•*“* w“We are aware of:the debatewhich has long gone bn in this ■ country: o ver the propriety of the : death penalty,” - justicessaid. “We are.also a^vare of the- / fact that the supreme: court justices of California (in identical law) found that the death penalty is both crueT and unusual and field it violative of: that state’s‘constitution. ; .... .»*. • • ' • •* • • «'* § “ s . * • r •* , .“In addition/’ the:court said,“there are at present pending three eases before .the United. Continued page 2 '
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Tucson Daily Citizen
Tucson, Arizona, US
Fri, Jun 23, 1972
Page 39
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