Corn v. Myers

*27DENECKE, J.

Sponsors have filed a proposed constitutional amendment imposing the death penalty for murder to be placed on the ballot by the initiative process.

The Attorney General prepared a ballot title for the proposed constitutional amendment. Pursuant to ORS 254.077, the petitioner has asked that we compose a different title.

ORS 254.070(4) prescribes that the ballot title "shall be a concise and impartial statement of the purpose of the measure.” ORS 254.077(1) prescribes that the proposed title shall be changed if it is "insufficient or unfair.” We are not empowered to change a proposed…