Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-06-21 | Page 1 | Slayer Seeks Sanity Hearing

I ISLA SLAYER SLA YER SEEKS SANITY HEARING Board Hears Pleas in Delbert Green Case Whether Delbert Gre Green n triple I slayer and three times sentenced to d death h shall fa face e a firing squad guad II at t dawn June 26 was being considered considered considered consid consid- ered Friday afternoon by the Utah pardons board during an executive session For more than two hours Friday the board listened to pleas by Greens Green's attorneys and defense psychiatrists psychiatrists pay pay- that he be granted a sanity hearing They based their pleas on the belief that Green could not control himself during an emotional emotional emo emo- emergency Green who faces death within a week was convicted of ot killing his uncle during a family quarrel at Layton in in 1930 1030 His wife wite and mother-in-law mother were killed at the same time but he was never brought to trial on these charges Since that time his case has dragged through the tho courts while he lie remained in the Utah state sUite prison exhibiting only indifference when he appeared before a judge to hear the death sentence pronounced upon him Three Alternatives Alternates The pardons board has three al alternatives alternatives alternatives al- al 1 They may grant a commutation commutation tion to life lite imprisonment without a sanity hearing 2 2 They may refuse toehold any hearing 3 3 They may grant the hearing and amid delay action on whether the death sentence shall be carried out until after the insanity examination Arthur Woolley of Ogden Greens Green's chief chic defense counsel opened the plea As he spoke Greens Green's mother Mrs Lilly Mao Mae Alexander sobbed intermittently in tho the board room Her brother and his wife Mr Mi- and Mrs Don DeMott were present Greens Green's year old daughter Lorraine Lorraine Lor Lor- raine at times played about the room Lack Control p Mr rr Woolly Woolley y declared that while Green may not be insane in the layman's layman's layman's lay lay- mans man's understanding ding of ot th the term he tic is a constitutional psychopathic personality that personality that he is unable to put on the brakes during an emotional emotional emo emo- emergency We ought not to adopt a Hitler philosophy and destroy the unfit he tie declared In stressing his point that the thrice-condemned thrice man was mentally irresponsible during the time of his triple killing John C. C Davis of ot Ogden associate counsel in Greens Green's defense told the pardon board that the condemned man was not emotionally rational Dr A. A A. A Robinson of ot Ogden speaking on an behalf of ot Green said that his heredity was bad Greens Green's grandfather committed suicide and I his died in an insane hospital hospital hos hos- pital pita Dr Robinson said