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...states have abolished capital punishment entirely: Wisconsin (1853), Maine (1887), Minnesota (1911), Alaska (pre-statehood), Hawaii (pre-statehood), Delaware (1958). Three others, Michigan, Rhode Island and North Dakota, are usually counted as abolition states, because they retain the death penalty only for one or two rare offenses (treason, murder in prison by a convicted murderer) and never invoke it. Eight other states abolished capital punishment at one time or another but later restored it. Missouri, for example, abolished the death penalty in 1917, reinstated it in 1919 after hoodlums killed two policemen in a gun fight...
...Roman Catholic bishop in predominantly Catholic Puerto Rico last week jumped broadly into the statehood v. commonwealth debate. In a letter to the New York Times, James McManus, the Brooklyn-born Bishop of Ponce, charged that Muñoz Marín, by saying repeatedly that Puerto Rico is "a proud, free, self-governing commonwealth, joined to the U.S. by her own choice," is eloquently ignoring the hard historical fact. The 1952 law that established the commonwealth, McManus pointed out, did not free Puerto Rico, but merely changed it from a "nonautonomous territory" to an "autonomous territory." In fact, said...
...Puerto Rico last week, it left a stream of political smoke behind. With Ike in the big, orange-trimmed plane for a friendly chat en route to Washington went Luis Ferré, 56, the millionaire industrialist, accomplished pianist and M.I.T. honor graduate who is running for Governor on the Statehood Republican Party ticket in the November elections. The trip got big Page One headlines in Puerto Rican newspapers, and Candidate Ferré beamed: "We talked as one Republican to another...
...major issue of the campaign, commonwealth v. statehood, Ike was less helpful. Though Ferré argued hard on the trip for a Republican plank endorsing statehood, Eisenhower replied: "I think you'd have a better chance, Luis, if you could give the platform committee some indication of public opinion on statehood in Puerto Rico." Ferré found that Republican leaders in Washington generally favor keeping some form of the 1956 plank, endorsing the "fundamental principle of self-determination" of the Puerto Rican people. In his political campaign, Ferré will try to prove that self-determination means statehood sooner...
...Alaskans who want the capital moved from fog-plagued Juneau westward to the Fairbanks-Anchorage area; the question will go on next November's ballot. But after a few reports were read, Alaskan lawmakers had reason to think about some far more fundamental aspects of Alaskan statehood...