{"id":6368,"date":"2011-11-23T00:18:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T08:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/kitzhaber-says-no-to-death\/"},"modified":"2011-11-23T00:18:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T08:18:45","slug":"kitzhaber-says-no-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/kitzhaber-says-no-to-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitzhaber Says No to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I will not be going to do volunteer work in the prison this month.&#160; Not only am I not well enough yet, but also, our meeting was cancelled so that staff could practice for an execution scheduled early next month.&#160; I had planned, and partially written an article for that occasion, stating that was one of the few times I was not proud to be an Oregonian.&#160; Thanks to John Kitzhaber, Oregon\u2019s Democratic Governor, that article will not see the light of day.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"23Kitz\" border=\"0\" alt=\"23Kitz\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/23Kitz.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"251\" \/>Gov. John Kitzhaber announced today that <strong>he is halting the scheduled Dec. 6 execution of Gary Haugen and won\u2019t allow any executions to occur while he is governor<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Kitzhaber\u2019s bombshell came the day after the Oregon Supreme Court said that it would allow the lethal injection execution of the twice-convicted murderer to go forward.<\/p>\n<p>In slamming the brakes on Oregon\u2019s first execution in 14 years, <strong>the Democrat governor said the state\u2019s death penalty system is \u201cbroken\u201d and he vowed to push for reforms in the 2013 legislative session<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time for this state to consider a different approach,\u201d Kitzhaber said. \u201cI refuse to be a part of a compromised and inequitable system any longer; and I will not allow further executions to take place while I am governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under Oregon\u2019s constitution, governors have sweeping power to grant reprieves, commutations and pardons for those convicted of crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Kitzhaber said he was exercising his authority to issue a temporary reprieve for Haugen, lasting \u201cfor the duration of my term in office.\u201d\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesmanjournal.com\/article\/20111122\/UPDATE\/111122018\/Gov-Kitzhaber-halts-Haugen-execution-won-t-allow-any-executions-while-office?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CNews%7Cp\" target=\"_blank\">The Statesman Journal<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Here\u2019s the video of Kitz\u2019s statement.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OtK6m2H-ds0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Thank you Governor.&#160; I remain proud to be an Oregonian.&#160; It\u2019s time for the US to join the civilized nations of the world by outlawing capital punishment once and for all.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will not be going to do volunteer work in the prison this month.&#160; Not only am I not well enough yet, but also, our meeting was cancelled so that staff could practice for an execution scheduled early next month.&#160; I had planned, and partially written an article for that occasion, stating that was one <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/23\/kitzhaber-says-no-to-death\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}