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    Judge orders execution of Oregon death row inmate

    SALEM, Ore. (AP) — A judge ordered the first execution in Oregon in 14 years by issuing a death warrant on Wednesday for a twice-convicted killer.

    The execution by lethal injection for Gary Haugen, 49, was scheduled August 16 at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

    Marion County Circuit Judge Joseph Guimond ordered the execution after finding Haugen competent to disregard advice from his lawyers and waive his remaining appeals.

    The judge last week rejected an argument from Haugen's attorneys that the inmate may not be qualified to waive appeals. His attorneys also said a defense expert had determined Haugen suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome and attention deficit disorder.

    Haugen had written to court officials since 2008 asking to drop his appeals, complaining about a "costly broken system" and a criminal justice process he called arbitrary and vindictive.

    Haugen and another prisoner were sentenced to death in 2007 for the murder four years earlier of David Polin, a fellow inmate who suffered 84 stab wounds and a crushed skull.

    At the time of Polin's murder, Haugen was in prison for the 1981 murder of his ex-girlfriend's mother in Portland.

    Three drugs necessary for a lethal injection have been obtained by the state Department of Corrections but pentobarbital will be substituted for sodium thiopental, which has been in short supply and delayed executions in some states since its only U.S. manufacturer stopped making it.

    Sodium thiopental and pentobarbital are fast-acting barbiturates that can quickly stop a person's breathing and cause death within minutes.

    Oregon's last execution was in 1997. The state has executed two inmates since voters reinstated the death penalty in 1984, and both had waived their appeals. Oregon has 35 men and one woman on death row, including Haugen.

    http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/J...#ixzz1MjPMYm7Y

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    Media denied interview access to death row inmate----Corrections officials say requests would be overwhelming

    Oregon corrections officials have denied a Statesman Journal request for a prison interview with condemned killer Gary Haugen, who is scheduled to be executed Aug. 16.

    In nixing the newspaper's request, officials cited concerns about opening prison doors for a flurry of interviews with Haugen, 49. He is housed on death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem.

    "We have just received, and probably will continue to receive, so many requests to interview him," Corrections Department spokeswoman Jennifer Black said Thursday. "We just don't have the staff to do it."

    A Marion County judge signed Haugen's death warrant Wednesday after the twice-convicted murderer stated his desire to waive all further appeals and die by lethal injection.

    Unless Haugen changes his mind and wants to revive his appeals, he is on track to become the first Oregon inmate executed in 14 years.

    "It's a big story, and I think it's a big deal for the department and all the staff and everybody at OSP trying to get ready for it, too," Black said. But, she added, "I just think everybody is going to get denied for an interview with him. We just can't do them all."

    The DOC can't play favorites by granting one media outlet an interview with Haugen while turning down others, Black said.

    "That's our thought," she said. "If we say yes to you, we can't really say no to Fox News or something like that."

    In contrast to the DOC's current policy, officials allowed the Statesman Journal to interview Harry Moore less than a month before he was executed May 16, 1997. Moore spoke to this reporter from behind a glass window in a visiting-room cubicle at the penitentiary.

    Black's comments clarified and expanded on the Corrections Department's initial explanation for denying the Statesman Journal's request to conduct a prison interview with Haugen.

    In an email to the newspaper late Wednesday, the DOC said penitentiary Superintendent Jeff Premo had denied the interview request after determining that it "does not align to the Department's mission and goals, nor is it consistent with the inmate's correctional plan.

    Accordingly, Superintendent Premo has denied your request to interview inmate Gary Haugen."

    Asked whether death row inmates have correctional plans, Black said she thinks they do. However, she could not immediately confirm that Haugen has such a plan or disclose what it might say.

    "It probably states something like good behavior; I can't imagine they're doing anything for release, so it must just be appropriate behavior while incarcerated," Black said.

    Generally speaking, prison officials make case-by-case calls on whether to approve or deny media requests for interviews with inmates. DOC rules governing media access say the department has "discretionary authority to approve or deny any/all media requests for access to its inmates and institutions."

    By policy, an interview "may be approved" when an inmate agrees to it and a prison manager determines that the interview "is consistent with the Department's mission and goals, and the safe, secure and orderly management and operation of the facility, and is not inconsistent with the inmate's correctional planning and rehabilitation."

    Under provisions of DOC rules, interviews with inmates who are housed on death row or other special housing units generally are not permitted, officials said.

    (Source: The Statesman Journal)

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    If a flurry of reporters is really the Oregon DOC's concern, they can pick two or three by lot. Or else, use whatever other method states use for choosing which journalists may witness an execution.

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    Normally I wouldn't post an anti-death penalty protest, but he is a volunteer for Pete's sake!

    Portland group opposing Oregon execution

    PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A group of lawyers and religious leaders in Portland is trying to prevent the execution this summer of death row inmate Gary Haugen.

    Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty hopes to persuade Gov. John Kitzhaber to commute the death sentence. Spokesman Tom O'Connor told The Oregonian it also may take legal action to stop the execution.

    The 49-year-old Haugen was in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend's mother in 1981 and was sentenced to die for killing another inmate in 2003. He has waived appeals. The execution date is set for Aug. 16.

    It would be the first execution in Oregon since 1997.

    http://www.ctpost.com/default/articl...#ixzz1NYwRJpFl

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    Gov. weighing options for Haugen execution

    SALEM – Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber continued to weigh his options regarding the state’s first execution in 14 years.

    Pressure was mounting on Kitzhaber to stop the execution of death row inmate Gary Haugen.

    Background: Death row inmate Haugen to die in August

    Last week, a judge granted Haugen's request to fast-track his execution, setting a date for August 16.

    But a group of lawyers and religious leaders called Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty wants the governor to commute Haugen's sentence.

    A representative for Kitzhaber told NewsChannel 8 the governor was considering all of the options.

    http://www.kgw.com/news/local/OR-Gov...122741234.html

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    I think he will back out at the last minute. He says he wants to be executed to call attention to the system , sooner or later some dirtbag attorney will convince him that waiting till the last minute then backing out will accomplish that as well.

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    Not a surprise. He will accomplish nothing other than bringing to light Oregon has the death penalty, and a jury sentenced McAnulty, a female, to death.

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    Anti-death-penalty group files request to stop execution of Gary Haugen

    The Oregon Supreme Court today received the formal request filed by an anti-death-penalty group that seeks to invalidate the death warrant issued last month for inmate Gary Haugen.

    The petition for a writ of mandamus, filed by Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, asks the state's highest court to require a Marion County Circuit Court judge to hold a hearing to determine whether Haugen is mentally competent. The group had said last week it was planning to file the petition in hopes of blocking Haugen's Aug. 16 execution.

    The court has not yet indicated how it plans to handle the request.

    Haugen has dropped his legal appeals and requested to die. Haugen and another prisoner, Jason Brumwell, were sentenced to death in 2007 for the murder of a fellow inmate. Haugen had been serving a life sentence with the possibility of parole for beating to death his former girlfriend's mother in 1981.

    In the filing, the anti-death penalty group argues that Judge Joseph Guimond initially agreed to let defense attorneys gather more evidence to establish whether Haugen was mentally competent to face execution. The attorneys had told him a Portland neuropsychologist examined Haugen for five hours in May and found signs of cognitive defects.

    But at a May 13 hearing, over the attorneys' objections, Guimond instead found that he could not postpone issuing a death warrant without Haugen's permission, the filing states. Haugen did not give permission. Guimond then set up another hearing during which he issued the warrant for an Aug. 16 execution.

    The lawyers made a "threshold showing of incompetency," the filing argues, and the question of Haugen's competence should have been settled before proceeding to a death warrant hearing. In addition, the judge shouldn't have allowed Haugen to dismiss his lawyers because they had shown evidence that Haugen was not competent, the filing says.

    The filing also includes a June 6 affidavit from the neuropsychologist who had examined Haugen in May. In the sworn statement, which had not been previously submitted to the court, Muriel Lezak says it is her opinion "to a reasonable psychological certainty, that Mr. Haugen does not have a 'rational understanding' of the connection between the crime and the punishment in this case. Instead, in my opinion he suffers from a delusional disorder that makes him incompetent to be executed."

    She also found Haugen "suffers from a significant attention-deficit disorder" and that "some aspects of cognitive functioning appear to be compromised due to fetal alcohol syndrome."

    http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...ugen#post17016

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    Death row inmate decries effort to save him

    Haugen says he's willing to die to protest justice system's 'hypocrisy'

    Condemned killer Gary Haugen wants no part of efforts being made to spare his life.

    Speaking to the Statesman Journal on Wednesday from death row at the Oregon State Penitentiary, Haugen said he remains steadfast in his preference to proceed with the Aug. 16 lethal-injection execution.

    Haugen, 49, can stop the execution process at virtually any time if he changes his mind and decides to revive his appeals.

    But no such reversal will happen, he said.

    "Am I going to call it off? No," he said. "Here's the thing. I've had some people sit back and say, 'Oh, Haugen's just grandstanding.' Hey look, people can say what they want, and a lot of people are going to talk, everybody's got an opinion … but the bottom line is, I am adamant about my position."

    Haugen criticized attempts by anti-death-penalty activists to block the execution, either through a court challenge or by persuading Gov. John Kitzhaber to stop it.

    The twice-convicted murderer predicted that Kitzhaber won't intervene in the case.

    "He's sitting in that chair because of the voters, so he's going to do the voter's will," Haugen said. "I don't think it's really going to go anywhere. He's going to sit back and be a politician."

    The telephone interview, lasting almost an hour, was Haugen's first with a reporter since a Marion County judge signed his death warrant last month, clearing the way for the first Oregon execution in 14 years.

    Since the execution was green-lighted, death-penalty foes have vowed to pull out all the stops in their efforts to stop it.

    Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, a nonprofit advocacy group, is lobbying Kitzhaber to commute Haugen's death sentence or otherwise stop the execution.

    The governor's office has said he is considering the request.

    In a separate attempt to delay or derail the execution, an anti-death-penalty lawyer filed a petition Monday asking the Oregon Supreme Court to set aside Haugen's death sentence and send the case back to Marion County for a hearing on his mental competency.

    Haugen said he was insulted by the petition's assertion that he was not competent to waive his appeals and fire his defense attorneys at last month's death warrant hearing.

    "They're attacking me, right, for the most part," he said. "I mean they're slinging all this mud at me: He's mentally this, he's mentally that. Whatever. The bottom line is they're not going to win on that."

    After reading the petition Tuesday, Haugen said he fired off a letter to the Oregon Attorney General's Office, summing up his objections to it. The AG's office will represent the state in opposing the petition.

    Haugen is confident that the petition, filed by an attorney with the Oregon Capital Resource Center, will be thrown out by the state's highest court.

    "In my opinion, they don't have standing" to intervene in the case, he said. "They didn't file it with my consent."

    Ironically, Haugen hopes that his execution will spur efforts to question, investigate and ultimately repeal Oregon's death penalty — a goal of the activists who are seeking to block his execution.

    As Haugen tells it, he is sacrificing himself to protest the "hypocrisy" of the justice system and the "arbitrary and vindictive nature" of the death penalty.

    "I'm just so nauseated with the system that I refuse to participate in this anymore." he said. "Believe me, it's not an easy call by any means, but it's one I'm willing to make."

    Oregon has executed two inmates since voters reinstated the death penalty in 1984. Both of them waived their appeals, as Haugen has done.

    Kitzhaber allowed the executions of Douglas Wright in 1996 and Harry Moore in 1997 during his previous administration.

    "So why would he suddenly change now?" Haugen asked.

    A Marion County jury sentenced Haugen and a co-defendant, Jason Brumwell, to die for the 2003 murder of David Polin, a fellow penitentiary inmate. He suffered 84 stab wounds and a crushed skull.

    Prosecutors argued that Polin was killed because Haugen and Brumwell mistakenly thought that he snitched to corrections officers about their use of drugs.

    At the time of the slaying, Haugen was in prison for the 1981 beating death of Mary Archer of Portland, the mother of his former girlfriend.

    http://www.statesmanjournal.com/arti...news|text|News

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    Pretty much everyone in this article is guilty of being an idiot.

    Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, a nonprofit advocacy group, is lobbying Kitzhaber to commute Haugen's death sentence or otherwise stop the execution.

    The governor's office has said he is considering the request.

    In a separate attempt to delay or derail the execution, an anti-death-penalty lawyer filed a petition Monday asking the Oregon Supreme Court to set aside Haugen's death sentence and send the case back to Marion County for a hearing on his mental competency.
    So, rather than protesting at all the upcoming death penalty trials or the people on death row currently with innocence claims or whatever, they're instead focusing their efforts on a guilty dude who has chosen by his own hand to die. And these morons wonder how on earth they are not taken seriously by the public.

    Here lies the problem with every single anti-death-penalty group and why they have completely failed to do anything that could be considered an achievement. They focus all their efforts on lost causes like this guy who have chosen to die, or wait till the execution date has been set and appeals have been exhausted to actually do something.

    They are all just a bunch of publicity whores using an issue of public debate to try and get themselves noticed. No-one takes them seriously at all. Bunch of absolute scumpals and clueless morons who have banded together to smash their heads against a brick wall to get through rather than just walk around it.

    I am ashamed to be represented by them.

    Ironically, Haugen hopes that his execution will spur efforts to question, investigate and ultimately repeal Oregon's death penalty — a goal of the activists who are seeking to block his execution.

    As Haugen tells it, he is sacrificing himself to protest the "hypocrisy" of the justice system and the "arbitrary and vindictive nature" of the death penalty.
    This statement actually raises questions about Haugen's competency just out of the sheer lunacy of the idea.
    The idea that an execution will help stop the death penalty is like saying a well cooked dinner will give you food poisoning. Haugen is clearly not innocent so his death will just be forgotten within about a month. Unless the well cooked dinner has rat poison in it then it's gonna do diddly squat other than fill your stomach.

    Most. Flawed. Thinking. Process. Ever.

    Apart from maybe the protestors'.

    Close call.




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