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The Gait Death Pen should be 1: As America enters its third ce that we still cling to the barbar past. Last Friday, the U.S. Sup death penalty by a seven?two Dissenting Justice William J. of this kind is no less shocking The issue of capital punishment since the first settlers landed in country was one of the first nati< penalty for crimes other than today we lag behind Britain countries that have already aboli The lack of capital punishm< countries appears to have had no capital punishment as a deterre: been proven, and comparisons and do not have the death penalt in the incidence of murder. Lacking any kind of statistical deterrent theory, advocates c maintain that the death penalty i for the crime committed. The i court stated, "In part, capital pression of society s moral outi ] a. mu! _ e a.! tensive cuuuuci. lius rune lion 1 many, but it is essential in an or its citizens to rely on legal proc< help to vindicate their wrongs.' It is most shocking that the would justify the killing of anoth terms. It is hypocritical, to say t) say that murder is wrong, theref urhn mil**/!***? A r. n C ii nu iiiui u^i n OL/v/iYC*9iiiClil 1U1 ference adequately summed up the court's decision "can only m the value of human life and an in< our society." No society has the right to "] whether or not someone will die Thureood Marshall nut it "T1 community demandslhe murd< the evil he has done cannot sust The Game STEPHEN J. VA Editor BRADWEHLER Sports Editor MARGUERITE R liCDDIC UAlliAr*r\ 4 ^uuuib nvT?Mr\u LiriUMrUNAlU Photo Editor Associate Edlto ..Staff Writers Wayne Brooks Arti#ts John Robinson Tom Sbealey ^ Va|k Chuck Cromer Tom Freemai Sylvia Wise Kathy L. Walker Earl Turner Copy editors Patricia fcleazer tje.sy wniie Betsy whjfe Edith McNeill Lisa Wall John Roblnso Wayne Brook Staff Photographers Bill Miller Russell Jeffcoat Terry Siskind t HE GAMECOCK welcomes letters from readers. L subject and a maximum of 300 words. 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Tho valno nf M WAAV/VVW* Jk. ??%/ U1VSV VJL nt to murder has never between states that do Satire By Hai y show little difference Contributing 1 evidence to support the D^ar )f capital punishment f. ?aw the su s justifiable retribution flsh hea^ ^ najority opinion of the w**f ". a( punishment is an ex"if,C ti ?!?}?/: birds'0 It?wa najr ux: uuappeaiiug to iectives frorr dered society that asks yet idures rather than self- saw an o? boring to gc nation's highest court such a tacky er human being in such that such si he least, for a society to frankly glad ore we should kill those cover every the U.S. Catholic Con- or on trees 1 this feeling by saying crete and pi ann o ^^ ^ '* can a jiui uici ClUdlUIl UI n i n creased brutalization of the next Johl Crist, or Pc play God" by deciding another Bob As dissenting Justice i le mere fact that the IS? R 01? ar jrer's life in return for hmL '^'hi! ain the death penalty." watt bulb;. ^ movie was w cleaver in t\ LUiyK don't know < these lines i lk Don't you se bob king that I am wh Ad Manager yer TOCkS Off van them what's le susan paquet always say. r% Production Manager j J made it up 1 Saw a mc Advertising Staff SunSCt DriV* Joey Alewine Really a f. Mike Kish wrinkles of I IV..-4 n uuiiii nubiun production particularly of Groucho ] Frances Wolff rri ^ , w Linda Maiioy The leading Georges Beau Lionel BaiTy 3 never seen < lady remind* circulation Andrews-Fla Rosemary Abbo,. lady. A collai bit in Harpei .etters should be limited to a single :* ! /?- fhp ( > signed with the writer's true name. j*j u he writer's name will be withheld If (11(111 t SHOW ie identity of writers, please include VfoH o ? you can oe reached We reserve the I c* inji ret our space limitation* Address: I think I'll WI*i ^ it. I^et me ? jJnL n&.i itenburg Experiment >huck Crome ry Hope Editor latterea niue Horse Notebook, Chu nset today. It looked liked a pink sexi Hinted on gray slab. Clearly, God onto ring his usual serviceable, if was job of sunset art direction and whe And the script?all those damn "Gr is too intolerable for mere ad- featl 1 somebody who hasn't graduated who rem *k tree todav. It is entirplv tnn t i into here. All that green?and look green. I am one critic who feels can' hades are over-used and I am film that Harold Brunton is trying to criti tacky green shade on the ground this, with elegant, yet practical, con- I ci exiglas. I re* ;eep writing lines like that I'll be peop n Simon, or Rex Reed, or Judith to lil luline Kael or even?yes, even prov Craft. Got to keep in shape. mov a j i? ; ? -- sei uown in inK me scintillating the ] nd et cetera I thought of today: I i ictress' eyes were of a fecal mov ? halo shown as brightly as a ten- peop 'the only good scene in the whole been hen Linda Blair got it with a meat Bob le face." God, how do I do it? I I'm what reviews are going to have Adg< n them, but they're wonderful. The e, White Paper with Blue Lines, man at a film critic is all about? "Get I h in yer own way, and to hell with my ( ; gittin' stoned." That's what I out ( Yes. I really always say that. I reall n my own head. Really. belie >vie tonight. Went down to the anyv ?-In to catch "Dykes on Bykes." prof< ar-out movie. It had certain achi< rellini, with some Bertolucci and W( thrown in. I thought the script my P Machiavellian, with rare flashes Burg Marx tossed in for comic relief. what man showed a deep influence by just more and Laurence Olivier?I've waiti t- - * ? sucn a long pronie. The leading goinj id me of a sort of Mae West-Julie girls innery O'Connor type leading Pren ge, if you will. (I read that collage And *'s.) I would have liked to review that Jamecock, but unfortunately it at the Cannes Film Festival avy sexual experience today. I te to Penthouse or Hustler about be frank?although I'm really V nnW / / ^ f 1ft, r's diary ck (ha-ha.) I have never experienced the lal ecstacy of taking Roget's Thesaurus the crapper with me. It was wonderful. I supposed to be doing Number Two, but n I ran into phrases of pure poetry such as ow rich, get rich, fill or lines one's pocket, her one's nest." God. Now there is fresh, lesome, clean, uncliched writing. Got to ember this in my next review. have been scanning the papers today, ing for the most obscure films to review. I t find any. Why do they insist on making s for people instead of making films for cs? Must do a think-piece for the 'Cock on lidn't mean what I said about "Midway", illy liked the movie. There were so many >le there the night I went, and they seemed ke the movie so much that I just had to e my superior intellect. But?I liked the ie, I really did. Oh, you just don't know problems of an American film critic, isually don't mean what I say about the ies I get free tickets to. It's just?well, ne expect mat from me. After all, I've waiting for Bob Craft, Terry Dugas and Simpson to graduate AND HERE I AM. finally a leading cultural arbiter?like ?r Brown at The State or Pat Berman at Record. I'll show those two I know as y big words as they do. iave finally hit my stride, I am finally on )wn. My folks called to ask why I'm not )f school yet and I told them that I was y in the HEAL WORLD. They didn't tve me, but sent the $200 I asked for vay. If I keep going like this, I will be the ^ssional student, a goal I have sought to gve all my life. ill, here it is Saturday, and I've bought Norton Frozen Dinners, my Gallo Hearty ;undy and done my laundry. I sit in?god, . uhuuivi iji niiaiit ciujccuvm pnrssfi I've come up with?breathless anticipation, ing for The Three Stooges. Tonight, I'm I to show off my gourmet cookery to the next door by barbecuing some Swift's nium Hot Dogs. That'll imnr?cC ^ ?- - vij?j iiiV/in I'm going to say my special prayer, one 1 made up just for tonight: God be loving, God be sweet Thank me for the food I eat. Amen.