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Jury sentences Albanese to die in electric chair women deliberated for about 2V hours Wednesday on the death penalty. The jury deliberated a little more than 7 hours in finding Albanese guilty Tuesday. The jury indicated it found "no mitigating factors" to rule out the death penalty. The prosecution said at the beginning of the two week trial that it would seek the death penalty If Albanese was convicted. McHenry County State's Attorney Theodore Floro asked the Jury during a death penalty hearing Wednesday morning to "sentence this evil man to death." Floro said Albanese showed no mercy to his victims and was guilty of cold blooded, calculated murder.

Albanese has shown no penitence, also showed little emotion Tuesday when convicted. A death sentence is possible In Illinois in cases of multiple murders, In the murder of an on-duty policeman and in the murder of a prison guard. Albanese will be formally sentenced at 10:30 a.m. June 23 in McLean County. The sentencing is a formality, since by law the judge must impose the death penalty returned by the jury.

If the jury had not voted unanimously in favor of the death penalty, the judge could have sentenced Albanese to anywhere from 20 years to natural life in prison. An appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court is automatic. The Jury of seven men and five By BOB HOLLIDAY Pantograph itaff Charles Albanese was sentenced to death in the electric chair by a McLean County jury Wednesday. The same Jury Tuesday found Albanese guilty of murdering with arsenic his father and wife's grandmother and the attempted murder of his brother. Albanese, 44, Spring Grove, showed no emotion as Circuit Judge Henry Cowlin read the jury's sentence to a hushed courtroom at 2:26 p.m.

Albanese, who appeared tired, rested his chin in his hands and glanced alternately at the judge and jury. The man authorities said poisoned his relatives to get their money and gain control of the family business, 56 pages, 5 sections Floro said. Defense Lawyer Richard Kelly, Crystal Lake, asked the jury to consider Albanese's family (his wife and several children), the fact that he had no prior criminal record and that the electric chair is not a painless death. "I only hope that you do the right thing," Kelly said after quoting the Bible commandment "Thou shalt not kill." Kdly referred to the death penalty as "revenge, not retribution," Nobody has been executed In Illinois since 1962, although capital punishment was restored in Illinois in 1977. Melvin Wallace, a criminologist at McHenry County College, testified Wednesday that there are 1,000 Thursday, May 20, 1982 fan Jurors made 'tough UoM hed pleads for ffomid peee tiry.

death row inmates in the U.S. He said studies he is familar with show the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime. Kelly attempted unsuccessfully to introduce as evidence a picture of the Illinois electric chair. Floro argued the picture was an attempt to play upon the emotions of the Jury. Also testifying at the death penalty hearing was the Rev.

Thomas Neville, priest at St. Joseph's Church, Richmond. He said Albanese appeared to him to be a good family man in the four years he has known him, He shook Albanese's hand after Set SENTENCING, next page Invasion would test Argentines BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) A British invasion of the Falkland Islands would be the first significant match between Argentine armed forces and those of a hostile nation since 1870, and the first real test of the air force. Argentina reportedly has 9,000 troops backed up by artillery and fighter planes on the Falklands, which it seized April 2. Britain ruled the islands since 1833, but Argentina consistently claimed sovereignty over the colony islands 250 miles east of its southern coast.

Only sporadic fighting, mostly British aerial attacks on Falklands airstrips, has been reported in the South Atlantic since Britain imposed an air-sea blockade around the islands April 20. sources that he declared his peace effort a failure and added: "The cost of failure in terms of human life and suffering is too high to permnit us to give up our efforts." Perez de Cuellar did not say what suggestions he had made to Galtieri and Mrs. Thatcher, who had ap taaraplj VA sfaa Bloomington-Normal, decision' 71 Pantograph photo A L. PODGORSKI her life. "But, I have no regrets.

I have no guilty feelings," she said. Mrs. Church said she feels sympathy for Albanese's family, but not for Albanese. "He didn't show any (sympathy) for the people he killed," she said. See JURORS, next page Oil -jus-, -j By BOB HOLLIDAY Pantograph staff Jurors who sentenced Charles Albanese to death Wednesday didn't know beforehand that re-sponsibilty for sentencing Albanese would fall to them, "We didn't know it was up to us to decide that," said Sharon Arteman, Towanda.

She said she and other jurors thought the judge would impose a sentence. Jurors did not take the unexpected responsibility lightly. The majority of those interviewed said the decision to send Albanese to the electric chair was the hardest decision in their lives. Jury Foreman Lynn L. Lazerson, 4 Knollcrest Court, Normal, got the impression that the judge would sentence Albanese from reading an outdated jury instruction pamphlet.

Lazerson, a counselor and psychotherapist, said Wednesday's decision to sentence Albanese to death was more difficult than the jury's decision Tuesday to convict him. "It's one thing to think about the death penalty in abstraction and another thing in reality," he said. "We were making the ultimate decision," he said. Despite the finality of the decision, Lazerson and other jurors interviewed said they could be comfortable with their decision. "I was willing to face a tough TODAY 146th Yeor 140th Day THE WEATHER Lynn Lazerson, Normal, foreman of the McLean County jury which sentenced Charles Albanese to death, said jurors were not aware they would have to decide on the death penalty.

Charles Albanese Twin Cities Final 25c peared earlier to reject the latest Argentine peace proposals. A spokesman for Mrs. Thatcher said in London the British government was planning to publish a document Thursday detailing the negotiating positions of both sides and their differences. The spokesman said "it's not wrong to assume" the announcement meant negotiations were at an end. Asked if Mrs.

Thatcher stood by her assertion Tuesday that military action "would not be held up in any way" if peace talks failed, the spokesman said: "That has been the case all along." Each side blamed the other for the breakdown in peace talks. In Buenos Aires, Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez told reporters: "Right now, the only thing standing in the way of a just and honorable peace is the absolute intransigence and incomprehension of the problem on the part of Thatcher." He added that "Argentina does not accept ultimatums from anyone" an apparent reference to Mrs. Thatcher's statement Tuesday that she was giving the peace talks 48 more hours. Costa Mendez said he would be willing to travel to New York "if that is necessary." Associated Press The Falklands crisis suggests that this era may be coming to an end. The inter-American system in recent years has expanded to include English-speaking Caribbean countries with a British colonial background alien to the Spanish and Portuguese legacy in the rest of Latin America.

Thus, the regional unity that the OAS system was designed to promote has been severely strained. Former English colonies and former Spanish colonies have shown a growing tendency to come down on opposite sides of many recent issues. In addition, Argentina's initial act of aggression in the April 2 invasion of the Falkands posed a problem beyond the reach of the hemisphere's mutual defense pact, the 1947 Rio Treaty. In consequence, the crisis over the Falkland Islands seems to demonstrate that the system represented by the OAS and the Rio Treaty is almost totally unequipped to deal with any crisis which threatens large-scale use of force. This weakness has forced the hemisphere nations to defer to the United Nations where the Security Council overrode the negative vote of its only Latin American member April 3 and adopted a resolution calling on Argentina to withdraw from the islands.

Angcm Timet confidence vote U.S. officials fear more territorial crises I Britain, its war fleet poised for full-scale assault, appeared last night to reject Argentina's last-ditch bid for a peaceful settlement in the Falklands. The U.N. secretary-general appealed directly to the British and Argentine government heads for a "last urgent effort" toward peace. In Buenos Aires, the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a communique saying British Sea Harrier fighter-bombers attacked the Argentine-occupied Falklands, 250 miles east of the southern Argentine coast, in the day's only reported fighting.

The communique said the attack was repelled by ground fire. U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar told reporters at U.N. headquarters in New York that his 12 days of indirect talks with British and Argentine representatives "had made substantial progress" toward ending fighting that began when Argentina seized the Falklands April 2. The islands had been a British colony since 1833.

But the secretary-general said the time for talking "must be measured in hours" and he therefore had switched from mediation to direct involvement, speaking on the telephone with Argentine President Leopoldo Galtieri and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. He said he "suggested new ideas which I believe might be of assistance in overcoming the remaining points of difference." He denied reports by Japanese until November 1985. The rowdy debate, marked by acrimonious exchanges between Begin and Labor party leader Shimon Peres, brought the level of Israeli political debate to a new low. The debate was over a no-confidence motion criticizing the Begin government's economic policy, which the motion said has led to a widening of the gap between rich and poor and to the 10.7 percent surge of inflation in April. But the issue was almost obscured by the rancor over the defection of Amnon Linn and Yitzhak Peretz to Labor.

Finance Minister Yoram Aridor, replying for the government in the debate, called the defection "a dirty trick." Begin charged that Labor had lured them out of Likud with promises of cushy political posts. "Manipulations, floor-crossings and haggling will not change the voters' wish," stormed Begin. threat the source of allegations against Donovan, who has been accused by various FBI informants of having ties to organized crime. About the alleged death threat. Hatch told reporters: "A member of the Labor Committee staff was threatened he and his family and the name Donovan was mentioned." He declined to identify the staff member, but said the staffer had been threatened twice once about a month ago and once within the past several days both times by an anonymous phone call.

decision and not waver," Lazerson said. Mrs. Arteman had similar sentiments. "It was a very tough decision. We tried to do what was right," she said.

Carol Church, 1300 N. Walnut Normal, said Wednesday's decision was the most difficult in Begin wins JERUSALEM (AP) Prime Minister Menachem Begin survived a no-confidence motion by one vote Wednesday, defeating the most dangerous parliamentary challenge to his government since his election five years ago. The vote was 58-57 with 3 abstentions, one of which came at the last minute and tipped the balance in Begin's favor. The opposition Labor Party's chances of victory looked good at first, after two members of Begin's Likud bloc defected. But the two-man independent TELEM faction abstained, and a third abstention in the opposition nailed down Begin's triumph in the seventh no-confidence motion he has faced in the past 10 months.

But the political horizon was cloudier than ever. The defections have left Begin without a majority in Parliament and he is likely to be swamped with no-confidence mo- by Considerable cloudiness and cooler today, 30 percent chance thunderstorms. Highs middle to upper 70s. Cloudy tonight, 30 percent chance showers and thunderstorms. Lows lower to middle 50s.

Cloudy and cool Friday, showers and thunderstorms likely. Complete weather on D3 WASHINGTON With the search for a peaceful solution to the Falklands crisis apparently at an end and the prospect of full-scale fighting between Argentina and Britain at hand, the Reagan administration is increasingly concerned about the long-range consequences of a breakdown of the inter-American system. If the crisis cannot be resolved without war, administration officials believe, a precedent will be set for at least a dozen other territorial conflicts in Latin America to be settled by force. This would have ominous consequences for U.S. interests throughout the hemisphere.

The administration's decision to side openly with Britain, its North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally, against Argentina, a member of the Organization of American States and a signatory with the United States of the Rio Treaty, already has provoked widespread anti-American sentiments. These will get worse if all-out fighting occurs, or if the conflict drags on without resolution. But administration officials are becoming far more worried about a "Balkanization" of Latin America into hostile armed camps. This would mean the countries would not be restrained by the regional of diplomatic institutions that has kept peace since World War II. Donovan probe Senate staffer got death Menachem Begin tions in the weeks ahead.

Begin hopes to restore his majority of 61 in the 120-member Knesset drawing TELEM into his coalition. But most political analysts expect him to call an election in a few months, even though his term runs threat," said Hatch, R-Utah. He said the matter has been referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. At the same time, Hatch said he was "personally offended" by a counter-investigation of his committee by a New Jersey construction company in which Donovan formerly held a partnership. "It's offensive to me and every member of the committee," Hatch said.

He was referring to an investigation launched by Schiavone Construct ion Co. of Secaucus, N.J., into INDEX Abby C2 Bridge D5 Classified D4 Comics D10 Deaths D3 Entertainment BIO Dl Focus CI Sports Bl Opinion A12 Freebie D6 WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, chairman of the Senate Labor Committee, said Wednesday that a member of his staff had received an anonymous death threat to "lay off" an investigation of Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan.

"If you don't lay off the Donovan investigation, your wife will end up in a pine box," a committee source who declined to have his name used quoted the anonymous telephone caller as telling the committee's chief investigator. "It was a serious call, it was a iotjciy: Daily: 449.