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       By: BuzzC Date: December 30, 2016, 12:04 pm
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       'Kill me now': Convicted killer pleads to be executed after
       getting death penalty reprieve--
       March 14, 2012
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       A death row inmate who was recently spared lethal injection when
       Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber placed a moratorium on all
       executions is asking for his death warrant to be reissued.
       Twice convicted killer Gary Haugen, 49, says the governor's
       reprieve leaves his future in limbo -- and amounts to cruel and
       unusual punishment -- because he cannot be executed nor can he
       receive a definite commutation of sentence.
       Haugen's attorney, Harrison Lotto, said Gov. Kitzhaber's
       decision violates Oregon's constitution.
       'While you have every right, of course, to lead a campaign to
       repeal the death penalty in Oregon, Mr. Haugen should not be
       forced to serve as a pawn in that effort,' Latto said in the
       letter obtained by Reuters.
       Latto says his client must accept a reprieve, and Haugen has not
       done so. Additionally, Latto says Kitzhaber issued a death
       penalty reprieve as 'an attempted nullification of a particular
       Oregon law. The governor, under the Oregon constitution, has no
       such power.'
       Haugen was scheduled to die by lethal injection on December 6.
       But two weeks before the execution, Gov. Kitzhaber issued a
       moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term.
       'I had the law and the constitution behind me and all he
       (Kitzhaber) did was take that right away from me and now he has
       to answer for it,' Haugen recently told KOIN Local 6.
       Kitzhaber contends he is morally opposed to the death penalty.
       But the Oregon governor has stopped short of commuting Haugen's
       sentence, as well as the sentences of Oregon's 35 other death
       row inmates.
       'I made a decision based on what I think the constitution
       clearly grants me which is the ability to pardon or reprieve
       inmates,' Kitzhaber said.
       Haugen was sentenced to die for the 2007 murder of David Polin,
       a fellow inmate at Oregon State Penitentiary. Haugen and another
       inmate stabbed Polin 83 times and crushed his head.
       At the time, Haugen was serving a life sentence for the murder
       of his girlfriend's mother, Mary Archer. Haugen used his fists
       and a baseball bat to kill Archer in 1981 in her Portland home.
       Oregon is the fifth state since 2007 to stop executions. In
       total, 16 states do not allow executions, as crime rates reach
       record lows across the country and as an increasing number of
       state legislatures slowly abolish capital punishment.
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