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By United Press International |

"Some 858 convicts: in. U.S.

prisons face the same fate as

Nevada’s convicted killer
Jesse Bishop:

“In all, . 35 ‘states. with

— __.eapital punishment ~ laws

th ee

have death rows. Nearly half
the ‘nation’s death-row in-

mates are in Florida and

Texas.<

: Fifteen ‘states have no

capital punishment law, and

eight. states that allow the
‘death penalty currently have
no one awaiting execution.

~ Only: two states — Utah
and' Florida — have put
convicted killers to death
‘Since the’ U.S. Supreme;

Court declared | ‘most death~

penalty ‘statutes un-
constitutional in 1972 and

‘ required states to re-draft

their laws.

Gary Gilmore was shot by
a firing squad in Utah on
January 17, 1977, and John
A. Spenkelink died in the
Florida electric chair on
May 25 of this year.

Florida leads the nation
with 140 convicts currently

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| But executions: ‘are uniih kely

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‘sentenced: to death. Texas
: has 120.

Other States with large

death row populations’ in-

‘cluce Alabama, 47; Arizona,
31; California, 23; Georgia,

72, and Oklahoma, 22.

For several states, to carry

out an execution would

mean an overhaul of

facilitiés that haven't been -
-uséd in years, and in. some

cases, for decades.

Wyoming would have to

renovate its gas chamber,
and in New Hampshire,
where death would be by

hanging, the post of official
“state hangman has been

vacant for years.

Connecticut’s . last
execution was in 1960, and
the execution chamber is
still equipped with the same
wooden electric chair used
then.

In Vermont, where the
death penalty was declared
unconstitutional and has

never been re-instituted, the

state electric chair is stored
in the basement of: the
Historical Society museum.

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