European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 1, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                August i Tiffiany getting Ait Eye w cons i of not emf i associated press writer after Gary ill More a firing an associated press Survey shows people on the nations death rows but Despue predictions that is death would Obj Cynthe floodgates of capital if Are Likely t no other executions have been carried Oil Gilr Nores on 17 and the number facing execution is far Tower than the 611 who were sentenced to die As of last when the supreme court ended nine Yean of Legal doubt by upholding the death penalty for the first Likely Dale for an execution is late this month in but the Chance Las minute Legal mane vering could change other states that could have an execution by the end of the year include Georgia and when Gilmore went to utahs v and most have chosen to commute to life terms the death sentences imposed under the unconstitutional old in North where lit people were on death Row a year none to today on the other has begun the lengthy and costly process of re trying a those condemned under its old Law inert Are 22 on death Row mod await ing new a supreme court ruling this summer against invoking the death penalty for rape is sure to further reduce the the Survey found about As Many Blacks and other minorities on death Row a information on the race and sex of 3h was available 195 179 id hispanic 378 six seventeen states have no death but in new Jersey efforts appear Likely to succeed in restoring end in California pleading to be shot opponents of the death the legislature May override Edmund Ive my against his Brown new penalty fought to save i tos last american had been put to death in even after last july supreme court death Penally opponents hoped the Long hiatus had meant the end of exec they feared go mores death would unleash a Bloodbath in the nations Gas Cham electric chairs and Ithan networked out that in three convicts in Alabama and Pennsylvania who face a Long wait in prison before being executed if they Ever Are men like say they would prefer death to life in one reason that the number on death Row has dropped is explained by the supreme court decision that opened the Way to renewed the decision rejected the argument that the death penalty is always cruel and unusual but it also restricted the Power ots utes to make death mandatory Tor certain in the past 18 with mandatory death Penally Laws have passed new taws to make sure a sentence a particular Crim most have added a new Legal step a second trial after conviction lode de whether the defendant gets life in Rimi idl n 22 in slates with death electrocution is the most common 17 followed by Gas hanging and lethal injection Utah allows a Choice of firing squad or Florida appears among the likeliest to resume five of 83 people under death sentence have exhausted and officials say Heuble Askew will sign the first death warrant this officials then have a week in which to carry it the five Are oar Les William whose conviction in a stabbing was a test Case in last july supreme court ruling Gary Eldon a mental Hospital Escapee convicted of strangling an 18year old Ana her grand Mother Clifford convicted of slashing a barmaids Throat John spin a California prison Escapee convicted of shooting a partner in the Back while he slept Robert convicted of the execution style murder of a Motet restaurant in George Busbee says he will Grant each murderer a iast4itch stay so parole officials can consider a comm that appears Likely to spare the life of Charles whose appeals have run out and who a scheduled to be executed wll was one of several charged in a but officials think another Man who got life wielded the Hill has a stay and commutation is with out Htu could die in in it would be less surprising if Wayne cart Isaacs and George dung a were executed for fatally shooting a his three and his the wife was raped repeatedly before being shot but that Case is still under in where 18 Are on death the earliest execution could come when Jose of 3 sen fenced to die for shooting Randall and his wife in drug related kill Ings in their but attorney general Bruce Babbitt says Legal moves could delay execution the rest of the in persons Are or death including Roland who is Appeal ing Bis conviction of poisoning Hia Young son with halloween Candy to collect insure Texas came close to resuming executions last when Wilbur tsar Les Collins scheduled to die for killing a driven store employee during an armed robbery appeals prompted an indefinite slay a few Days before the execution in Wayne and John Are saying they prefer death to life in they admit Evan shot to death a Mobile Pawn shop owner during a and say they committed a other robberies and nine i am writing this Letler in order to pro test a blatant form of discrimination being practice bythe Branch american has been entrusted with my Money for several i am Lfering to the fact hit this Bank has two lines for customer one of Wloch is brazenly marked permanent party on almost anyway the line which the training troops Are permitted ruse is than that other Golden this is discrimination by american express charges the same rates to All its h Logi Cally follows that All receive a comparable amount and Quality of b not presently the Case at  american 1 i who Are at draft tote to train Are not authorized class i off Post privilege a and Are allowed to use the main Post facilities Only on a restricted to some extent by the Lohes during Fife pre Cious few hours they Are ate to spend on main the policy now in which requires them to do so is an illogical of the policy which makes training  it Lakhs while at Gra  be forced to end its Discart mandatory policy at nil to fact that after All there to conduct intensive training and therefore do not Nave time to make Exten Sive use of some facilities such As Bowling Alley and class both of which Are off limits unit which allots thou Sands of dollars to training does not want its troops making extensive use of these far Clit Law the american is in a different troops who Are in training status still have ills to and other financial business to conduct which requires them to use the american express while at restricting their Access to it cannot be jus apologists who complain thai the Large number of training troops makes it Nordi Ratey Tough on the permanent party per sons Are ignoring the fact that main Post is off Litu to the training troops until which leaves several hours per Day for the exclusive use of permanent party person the acknowledged fact that training troops Are severely limited in amount of time they have to devote to personnel at the conduct at t lib Twiby tie u Owalla of the local operating pro endures array feed by Mutal agree ment the j Fec Alf installation to pfc we thai the Prev lion of Appu Cmuk labor n in unit be buting facility report Ltd the party1 idler line with the concurrence of lie 7th army training command Deputy commander an a Means of improving Over All tanking service to the various Menli at the military Coni Raully using the Bank this Wai consistent with the Green 1 Wihr Post policy of training unit use of Tup port facilities the writer refers to any Authar Ted May use the remaining serviced by the single line system anytime during the air  although such operating Are not the form of military banking Faolu Strang Mimbu Are found in a few Wetre a unique local St Tualla May warrant in the joint military its responsibility to provide service la training area branches to our customers from All Over we believe the present arrangement in Grafen Tiff equitably Ful the Nan Cal service Needa of an dragsters Appeal for strip an open letter to generals Blanchard and Ellis and anyone else with a sympathetic gentlemen As part of a minority that is discriminated against and with no one else to turn we Hope you can for the past seven we have been competing Wilh each other almost every sunday weather permitting from March through even though the Competition is we have an impeccable safety we Are part of a sport that is growing by leaps and Bounds in the More people Are spectators at our Brand of sport than any we As a club have invested thousands of dollars in the equal poem required to con duct our we As individuals have invested untold dollars hundreds of hours in preparing for our sport is drag our needs Are 1 simple a half mile or More of payed straight Flat a pit a latrine and parking facilities for the in return we offer fun and excitement for the spectators and and monetary compensation to our hosts for special How Are we discriminated against the military has built and currently maintains dozens of tracks for the Roundy round Circle track they race with vehicles that no one would think of taking through a Usa eur vehicle most of our participants use their family car to compete in our we have been denied the use of any of the facilities we have requested 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