Should Oregon Governor Give Reprieve to Murderer Who Wants Execution?
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2011/11/28 06:14:49
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A condemned murderer in Oregon wants his own execution, but Oregon's Governor John Kitzhaber refuses to carry out the order. Gov. Kitzhaber (D) issued a temporary reprieve, infuriating the death row inmate. Gary Haugen beat his ex-girlfriend's mother, Mary Archer, to death in May 1981. While in prison, Haugen bludgeoned and stabbed inmate David Polin to death. Gary Haugen committed 17 infractions while incarcerated. For his crimes, the people of Oregon sentenced Haugen to suffer death for punishment.
Haugen now wants to die. "I'm going to have to get with some serious legal experts and figure out really if he can do this," Haugen said. "I think there's got to be some constitutional violations. Man, this is definitely cruel and unusual punishment. You don't bring a guy to the table twice and then just stop it."
Oregon passed an assisted suicide law in 1994 by a 51% majority of the people. Oregon's Death with Dignity Act allows doctors to assist "sick" people to commit suicide.
Should Oregon courts overrule Governor Kitzhaber's reprieve and allow Haugen to die per his request?
Haugen now wants to die. "I'm going to have to get with some serious legal experts and figure out really if he can do this," Haugen said. "I think there's got to be some constitutional violations. Man, this is definitely cruel and unusual punishment. You don't bring a guy to the table twice and then just stop it."Oregon passed an assisted suicide law in 1994 by a 51% majority of the people. Oregon's Death with Dignity Act allows doctors to assist "sick" people to commit suicide.
Should Oregon courts overrule Governor Kitzhaber's reprieve and allow Haugen to die per his request?
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Top Opinion
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modernminuteman 2011/11/28 12:15:11Allow Haugen's Execution
+7the reason the death penalty is not much of a deterent is because in most states it takes many years to carry it out. you should a couple of appeals and get it over. live imprisonment costs a fortune and last time i looked we are broke.
Since when do you care what prisoners want?
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The first ghetto was set up in Piotrkow on 28th October 1939. Jews living in rural areas had their property confiscated and they were rounded up and sent to ghettos in towns and cities. The two largest ghettos were established in Warsaw and Lodz.
In October 1939, the SS began to deport Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia to ghettos in Poland. Transported in locked passenger trains, large numbers died on the journey. Those that survived the journey were told by Adolf Eichmann, the head of the Gestapo's Department of Jewish Affairs: "There are no apartments and no houses - if you build your homes you will have a roof over your head."
In Warsaw, the capital of Poland, all 22 entrances to the ghetto were sealed. The German authorities allowed a Jewish Council (Judenrat) of 24 men to form its own police to maintain order in the ghetto. The Judenrat was also responsible for organizing the labour battalions demanded by the German authorities.
Conditions in the War...
On 21st September, 1939, Reinhard Heydrich told several Schutz Staffeinel (SS) commanders in Poland that all Jews were to be confined to special areas in cities and towns. These ghettos were to be surrounded by barbed wire, brick walls and armed guards.
The first ghetto was set up in Piotrkow on 28th October 1939. Jews living in rural areas had their property confiscated and they were rounded up and sent to ghettos in towns and cities. The two largest ghettos were established in Warsaw and Lodz.
In October 1939, the SS began to deport Jews living in Austria and Czechoslovakia to ghettos in Poland. Transported in locked passenger trains, large numbers died on the journey. Those that survived the journey were told by Adolf Eichmann, the head of the Gestapo's Department of Jewish Affairs: "There are no apartments and no houses - if you build your homes you will have a roof over your head."
In Warsaw, the capital of Poland, all 22 entrances to the ghetto were sealed. The German authorities allowed a Jewish Council (Judenrat) of 24 men to form its own police to maintain order in the ghetto. The Judenrat was also responsible for organizing the labour battalions demanded by the German authorities.
Conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto were so bad that between 1940 and 1942 an estimated 100,000 Jews died of starvation and disease in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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The Juden Waffen surprised the Nazis with their resistance having only a few guns in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Germans retreated temporarily and with Goebbels calling for the extermination of these "murderers", and the people there were slaughtered.
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When I hear the cheering at Perry executing prisoners, I can't help but think of the lack of compassion and cheering done by the Nazis for the holocaust. I know better and I think you do too.
this isn't even an apples to oranges comparison, it's apples and gravel.
Sad thing is, you actually seem to think I would understand this motive as reasonable.
have any children,maybe he can bunk with them.
room.Tell the Gov.you have no problem with that.__________P.S,no one
thinks putting anyone to Death is fun, as you seem to think.It's justified.
are incappable of diong.
fool's like yourself,But not thoses of us in society.
I don't care what the prisoner wants. If he were dancing with joy at the reprieve, I'd still say the Governor is wrong. There is no reason cited -- like disputed evidence -- to keep this man alive at taxpayers' expense.