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Vincennes Sun-Commercial GENERAL NEWS SPORTS CLASSIFIED SECTION TWO FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1972 PAGE 9 xecuiion fssen Sounds Over Curb 1 i II 6" ruling would have a major long-range impact on parole procedures. Legislators in some states said they would work to reinstate capital punishment, an option which the court left open under certain circum- Romney called the ruling "one of the most terrible decisions we've had out of the Supreme Court in yearn. It is probably the biggest judicial afterthought in history." Several officials predicted the ishment as it is now imposed. But if the news was generally welcomed in U.S. prisons, some public officials and law officers took strong exception to the decision handed down Thursday.

Utah Atty. Gen. Vernon G. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS "They ought to let us out In the yard for our own Independence Day," rejoiced one Washington death row inmate upon learning that the U.S. Supreme Court had barred capital pun- dlyAb SGil Sndi Coind A ana mong I i I -j t-.

r. 1 i 1 i I jvSHv1 1 Mi 1 Zfo -s VOl I- ii ii if 'f 11 I "3 1 Si VJ i 1 Ma Hii Hill 1 stances. Whatever the ultimate effect, the immediate reaction on death rows was cheering, elation and relief but also some measure of concern about what would happen next "It's like having one foot out of the grave," said Curtis X. Davis, 25, a convicted murderer in Pennsylvania. "It's quite a relief." "They ought to let us out in the yard for our own Independence Day," declared Ernest James Tyler, 43, oldest man on Death Row at Washington State Penitentiary at Walla Walla.

In Michigan City, several of the death row inmates were less than happy with the decision. "I had a better chance of winning an appeal with the death penalty," said Charles A. Frith, 31, of East Chicago. "I don't care for the ruling," said George R. Brown, 40, of Hobart, on death row for nearly 15 years.

"I can't live with the type of prisoners they have here now." Law enforcement and public officials gave varying reactions to the ruling. "I have long felt that the death penalty had not proved to be a deterrent to crime," said Washington Gov. Dan Evans. "States that have had a death penalty have not had less crime than those states that have not had it." Mississippi Gov. Bill Waller commented, "I believe we can have better law enforcement with the death penalty as a deterrent it is valuable." Georgia Lt.

Gov. Lester Mad-dox attacked the ruling as "a license for anarchy, rape, murder." He predicted strong vigilante groups would form within five years. The Illinois Senate passed emergency legislation to keep 500 persons charged with murder from being automatically freed on Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, a former police chief, termed the ruling "a mistake" but noted that it came from the nation's highest court and said, "The law abiding people will uphold the law of the land." Ralph E. Williams, 26, Indianapolis, convicted in the same slaying as Frith, had this reaction to the possibility of being placed among the general population in the institution: "It's better than being caged up here." The longest resident on death row here, George R. Brown, 40, Hobart, said, "I don't care for the ruling." Brown, on death row almost 15 years for the slaying of a Gary beautician, said, "I can't live with the type of prisoners they have here now." He said many of the younger prisoners "like to talk big" about future crimes they will commit when released.

"They don't know nothing," he said. "I'm afraid of what I'll do to them when I hear that crazy talking." Brown said he opposes the death penalty except for "hired killers." Emmett 0. Hashfield, 65, MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. (AP) Their lives apparently spared by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Indiana inmates on death row reacted with mixed emotions Thursday.

Four of the six death row inmates at the Indiana State Prison here agreed to talk to newsmen, but none seemed overjoyed at the ruling which barred capital punishment. "I had a better chance of winning an appeal with the death penalty," said Charles A. Frith, 31, East Chicago. Frith, convicted Feb. 11 of killing the operator of an Anderson pawnshop during a robbery, said, "I don't want to go out into the (prison's) population.

I'd see guys leaving every day and I couldn't adjust." Frith said he never feared death and only hoped it would be quick. If he had to serve a long term, "I might as well be dead, and I might do it myself. If I could fall asleep and never wake up cool." Boonville, who has spent more than nine years on death row for the slaying of an 11-year-old girl, said he was not surprised at the high court's action. But he said he was "too old" for it to make any difference in his life. Hashfield said his years in prison have left him embittered.

"I hate people more now than I ever did. I've got no confidence and nobody." He said he is apprehensive about joining the rest of the prisoners. "I don't know how to handle people." Two other men who had been on death row were granted motions within the last year for new trials. Another man under the death penalty is at Beatty Memorial Hospital at Westville, the state mental institution. The last man executed at the state prison was Richard E.

Kiefer of Fort Wayne, who died in the electric chair June 15, 1961. He was the 59th man to die in the chair since 1913, when the gallows was replaced. Indiana has never executed a woman. Indiana Commissioner of Corrections Robert P. Heyne said Thursday's ruling was no surprise.

"I guess I was somewhat expecting this in light of the recent trends in reference to corrections. I'm sure these men (on death row) are going to be breathing a lot easier." Marion County Deputy Prosecutor Leroy New said, "I don't think law enforcement anywhere in the country favors the decision." He said it "tends to open season on police officers." New added the end of the death penalty will make it "extremely difficult for law enforcement officers to hold their fire" when threatened. He said he believes" public reaction will lead to a constitutional amendment reinstating the death penalty. "I honestly believe the country feels the balance has swung too far in favor of the criminal." Russell Lash, warden at the State Prison, said, "My first reaction is 'so The Supreme Court has simply taken action where the rest of the criminal system had not." Holdup Loss Is $111,146 INDIANAPOLIS (AP) "I would not want to kill you over money," an armed man told employes of a savings and loan office Thursday before he fled with $111,146, police said. They said he posed as an outdoor cleaning man and pulled a gun on a custodian of the Union Federal Savings and Loan Association to gain entry before the office opened.

Teller Mrs. Jennifer Beaver and branch manager Mrs. Norma Mangold said the thief ordered them to put money in a box he had been using to pickup trash. The women and custodian Rudolph Smith were locked in a vault but they escaped by tripping an inside lock release. DEATH-ROW TALK The hands of Elmer Branch hold a newspaper for other death row cellmates to see at the Texas State Penitentiary Thursday.

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