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...doubleheader, Lee Wulf fishes for tuna in Newfoundland and Rick Jason guns for grizzly bear in the wilds of British Columbia...
...groups involved plan an immediate appeal to the United States Court of Appeals, according to their attorney, Melvin L. Wulf...
...Melvin Wulf, legal head of the ACLU, said the indictments mark a "major escalation in the administration's war against dissent" and that the indictments are unconstitutional...
...Cruel & Unusual." Leading the attack are the American Civil Liberties Union and the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund. "We have embarked on a major drive to have the death penalty abolished in all 50 states," says Melvin Wulf, the A.C.L.U.'s legal director. Although the Legal Defense Fund first started fighting capital punishment because of the high number of Negroes being sentenced to death, it has, as a matter of policy, broadened its horizons to consider the plight of poor whites as well. Between them, the two organizations have put together an unusuL battery of legal weapons in three current...
...cases-one in Florida, two in California-depend at least partly on the contention that the death penalty is "cruel and unusual" punishment, which is explicitly barred by the Eighth Amendment. "And the less frequently it occurs," says Wulf, "the more cruel and unusual it becomes." Another argument claims that the death penalty serves no interest of society and is therefore unnecessary punishment in violation of due process of law. In the Florida suit, which seeks to do away with capital punishment on behalf of all 51 men on the state's death row, it is additionally contended that...