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...often argued, with blithe inhumanity, that there are good fiscal reasons for executing murderers: prison is too costly. It is cheaper to send a student to Stanford for a year than it is to keep a con in nearby San Quentin ($10,000 vs. $20,000). But imprisoning one inmate for 50 years would require less than $1 million in New York, not bad compared with the costs of the painstaking appeal process...
...then blue-eyed, kind-looking Lawrence Bittaker jerks into view, disrupting high-minded composure. Bittaker, 42, is on death row at San Quentin for kidnaping and murdering five teen-age girls. But that is not all. He and a partner raped and sodomized four of them first, for hours and days at a time, sometimes in front of a camera. But that is not all. He tortured some of the girls-pliers on nipples, ice picks in ears-and tape-recorded the screams. But that is not all. The last victim was strangled with a coat hanger, her genitals mutilated...
...Kerrey (D) Edward Zorinsky (D) NEV. Richard Bryan (D) * N.H. John H. Sununu (R) No Race N.J. No Race Frank R. Lautenberg (D) N.M. Toney Anaya (D) Jeff Bingaman (D) N.Y. Mario M. Cuomo (D) Daniel P. Moynihan (D) N.C. No Race No Race N.D. No Race Quentin N. Burdick (D) OHIO Richard F. Celeste (D) Howard M. Metzenbaum (D) OKLA. George Nigh (D) No Race ORE. Victor G. Atiyeh (R) No Race PA. Dick Thomburgh (R) John Heinz (R) R.I. J. Joseph Garrahy (D) * S.C. Richard W. Riley (D) No Race S.D. William J. Janklow (R) No Race TENN...
DIED. Clinton T. Duffy, 84, warden of California's San Quentin prison from 1940 to 1952, whose humanitarian reforms inspired warm tributes from many of his inmates as well as imitation by other penologists; of a stroke; in Walnut Creek, Calif. Born and raised within San Quentin's gates as the son of a guard, Duffy took over "Q" after five riot-filled years. He abolished airless, dungeon-like cells and physical punishments, fired guards for cruelty, and introduced such unheard-of civilities as a night school, a cafeteria and an inmate-staffed newspaper. The author of three...
...Quentin, Calif. Opened 1852 Capacity: 2,642 Inmates: 3,427 males