Rep. Messer Writes
About Legislature
MarshaU, N. C. - April 1, 1971 Page 9
On Thursday of this week a
hearing will be held on a bill to
abolish capital punishment.
This bill is introduced in every
Session of the General
Assembly, and each time it
gets a few more votes.
There are twelve i izj
persons on Death How at
Central Prison, including
Marie Hill, a woman, but no
one has been executed in
North Carolina since 1961.
Since Governor Bob Scott
has expressed his opposition
to the death penalty, there is
no possibility of an execution
during the remainder of this
administration.
Decisions by the U. S.
Supreme Court have given
persons convicted of capital
crimes so many appeal op
tions that it is difficult to
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exhaust them to the extent
that an execution can be
made.
So, for all practical pur
poses, capital punishment is
dead anyway.
Each person on Death Row
is costing the taxpayers of
North Carolina many
thousands of dollars each
year. Each one is entitled,
according to the Supreme
Court, to an appeal all the way
to the U. S. Supreme Court.
The state has to provide and
pay for lawyers for these
appeals. The state also has to
fight these appeals. This legal
service is all very expensive.
If all these death sentences
were commuted to life im
prisonment, the cost to the
state would be $3,500 per
person per year. That is the
cost for keeping one person in
Central Prison for one year.
Of considerable interest to
the municipalities of North
Carolina is the proposal to
double the amount of Powell
Bill money going back to
municipalities. This money
can be used for roads and
streets within city limits.
There appears to be no op
position to this proposal.
In its efforts to better
control the problem of
poaching, the Wildlife Com
mission has recommended
that Big Game Tags be issued
to all hunters and that a tag be
placed on any big game
animal that is killed. It would
be illegal to transport an
animal without such a tag.
If House Bill No. Ill should
pass and it probably will it
will be unnecessary to report
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