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United Press International
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — A
University of Alabama law lib
rary clerk discovered at least
13,600 people have been legally
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executed in the United States —
6,600 more than criminal justice
experts have' always believed.
Watt Espy, who has been re
searching legal executions dur
ing the past 11 years as part of
the Capital Punishment Re
search Project at the university
law school, said he expects the
total to reach 20,000 before he
finishes his work.
The university released
Espy’s findings during the
weekend.
Before Espy began his pro
ject, it was believed that about
7,000 people had been legally
executed in this country.
Espy, doing the research “so
that human beings legally put to
death in America are at least
given names,” only includes ex
ecutions carried out under court
order in his study. He does not
list lynchings or military execu
tions. He averages confirming
about three previously unre
corded executions each day.
Espy usually begins with a list
of executions from a state or
county agency or old newspaper
clippings. He collects additional
information from local or coun
ty historians, court records, law
or other libraries, or old news
papers.
“I record the available de
mographic information relating
to the executed person,” Espy
said. “Often the details are
sketchy, especially when the per
son executed was a slave or in
the colonial era.
“In this case, we often have
the slave’s dollar value at the
time, but not the person’s age.
We attempt to get all the infor
mation we can, though,” he said.
Espy’s chronicle of legal ex
ecutions begins with the 1622
hanging of Daniel Frank in
Jamestown, Va., for the theft of
a hog and cow, and runs
through 1982.
One entry is on the June 13,
1893, hangings of four black
men — Buck Brooks, Moses
Brown, Frisbie Comegys and
Fletcher Williams — in Chester-
town, Md., for the murder of a
Dr. James Hill.
An account of the hangings in
the Columbus, Ga., Enquirer
Sun noted that a struggling
Comegys was conscious at least
five minutes and that Brooks’
“determined efforts to get the
handcuffs off pleased the crowd
greatly.”
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WASHINGTON — The chil
dren of two battered women
who were killed by their hus
bands lost a Supreme Court bid
Monday to try to sue Texas pro
secutors for failing to act when
the women sought help.
Without comment, the jus
tices refused to revive a multi-
million-dollar lawsuit filed
against Tarrant County District
Attorney Tim Curry and Louis
Barnett, former assistant district
attorney.
On separate occasions, Mary
Wynell Miller and Geral Murrell
went to the local district attor
ney’s office for help after their
husbands abused and
threatened them.
But the prosecutorsoffti
no assistance, the lawsuit sail
alleged the office had a]
non-intervention in dome
violence, and claimed thepe
violated the women’s rights
On Dec. 6, 1978, Mrs. Mi
25, a mother of three, vmi
to death by her husbandinll
tom City, as she stepped outt
car. Mrs. Murrell, 23, a irtoii
of four, was shot in the head
her ex-husband on Jan.
1980, in Fort Worth as shesa
a car with her baby on heri
The Texas Court of Appt
dismissed the lawsuit
grounds that prosecutors
immune from all lawsuitssti
ming from their official dull
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