Thursday, May 5, 1983/The Battalion/Page 9
‘It tears at me all the time'
Inmate prays for strength
United Press International
WETUMPKA, Ala. — Judith
Ann Neelley says the execution
of John Louis Evans III has not
made her more concerned ab
out death. Neelley, the teenage
mother of three children, is
sentenced to die for killing a
Georgia girl.
The 18-year-old Murfrees-
buro, Tenn. woman was sent
enced to death April 18 for the
shooting of Lisa Ann Millican,
13, of Lafayette, Ga. The child’s
body was found last September
in the Little River Canyon near
Fort Payne.
Evans, a drifter from
Beaumont, Texas, became the
first person to be executed in
Alabama in 18 years when he
was electrocuted April 22 at
Holman Prison for the 1977
murder of a Mobile pawn
broker.
Neelley told the Birmingham
News the going had been rough,
but she had become “settled in”
at the 282-inmate prison north
of Montgomery. She said she
spent much of her time praying
and reading the Bible.
“I don’t ask God for me not to
be electrocuted. I just ask that if
I’m going to be electrocuted, to
give me strength to go through
it,” said Neelley.
Wearing a white prison dress
and rubber thong sandals she
bought from the prison canteen,
Neelley presented a much diffe
rent image than during her trial
when she wore stylish clothes
loaned by her attorney’s sec
retary.
Neelley admitted during her
trial that she killed Lisa Millican,
but her defense was that she had
been battered so much by her
husband, Alvin Neelley, that she
killed almost without thought
when he ordered her to.
Alvin Neelley is himself in a
Georgia jail awaiting trial for
murder in the shooting death of
Janis Chatman, a young Rome,
Ga., woman he and his wife are
also accused of killing.
The jury recommended life
imprisonment for Mrs. Neelley,
but DeKalb County Circuit
Court Judge Randall Cole im
posed the death sentence be
cause of the “heinous, cruel and
unacceptable” circumstances
surrounding the child’s death.
Neelley said people “don’t
know how sorry I am. It tears at
me all the time, but there’s no
thing I can do about it.”
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WASHINGTON — Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas, intro
duced a bill Tuesday that would
give tax breaks to industry —
supplementing the salaries of
engineering instructors.
Bentsen, who has been vigor
ous in pointing out the shortage
of engineering instructors at
U.S. colleges and universities,
said his bill would create new
jobs without driving up the cost
of living because it encourages
private industry to spend more
money on basic research and de
velopment.
“U.S. industry now spends
only 3.6 percent of every re
search dollar on basic research
and development, down from 7
percent in the mid—1970s,” he
said.
“Basic research — which has
led to such things as the transis
tor and the integrated circuit —
is giving way to applied research
— in which products utilizing
transistors and integrated cir
cuits are developed,” he said.
The bill would allow firms to
claim the 1981 research and de
velopment tax credit for pay
ments to supplement the salaries
of engineering faculty.
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SHINGTON — President
n is looking at possible
ges in negotiating posture
nuclear arms talks in
va in response to Soviet
dent Yuri Andropov’s
iosal to perhaps cut Soviet
ar weaponry.
leputy press secretary Larry
kes said Reagan has
dered astudy of possible shifts
the U.S. position when the
rategic Arms Reduction Talks
ime in early June.
Andropov Tuesday prop-
ed cutting the number of war-
ads on the medium-range,
trope-based missiles to the tot-
in the combined British and
ch arsenals. He may pre-
jrfjljPnt the proposal at the separate
S.-U.S.S.R talks on the Inter-
'ediate Nuclear Forces which
^ sumes May 17 in Geneva.
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proposal and does not consider
it workable.
The commission, headed by
retired Gen. Brent Scowcroft,
called for deployment of 100
MX missiles in existing silos, de
velopment of a smaller missile
with a single warhead, called the
“midgetman” and counting war
heads instead of launchers in
arms reduction talks.
Implementation of its recom
mendations, plus the build
down concept advanced by
Cohen, could mean a significant
shift in the U.S. approach to
arms control.
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It was the first time Andro-
|v has said the Soviet Union
'ould be willing to cut its nuc-
weaponry to match Western
- -'|ures.
l,“We’re looking at it,” said one
'Ihite House aide.
viet Ambassador Anatoly
ynin, attending a diploma-
corps reception at the White
. ch 6 ilouse Tuesday night, was asked
Andropov’s proposal
i,“0f course, it’s new,” he said
urn* ilthasmile. “Before we counted
lanes and missiles, now it’s war-
nrlft-”
Reagan first proposed the
iBo” option, meaning elimina-
An of all medium-range mis-
ThlJ 'les in Europe. He later prop-
ra an “interim” solution which
j—^ould reduce the missiles to an
ijual number on both sides.
J In a meeting with Republican
>T||| l lngressional leaders Tuesday,
^jjjiragan indicated he will re-
‘yjl |0nd to a letter from three in-
i^iliential senators who linked
neir support for the MX mis-
-r-^f-basing plan to a more flexi-
U.S. position at the START
iSpeakes said the letter from
“ :nate Foreign Relations Com-
e Chairman Charles Percy,
Ill., and Sens. Sam Nunn, D-
and William Cohen, R-
e, reflects “the bipartisan
it needed to achieve
i t "
^j^Nine House members sent a
liar letter to Reagan
uday.
8k iThe letters asked Reagan to
'tporate the recommenda-
jg 0 *l|js of his bipartisan Commis-
IBon Strategic Forces into the
|. position at the arms talks,
y also called on him to sup-
a “build down,” under
h two nuclear weapons
Id be destroyed for each
one produced.
.(Aides indicated Reagan,
** pile endorsing most of the
Bel’s suggestions, has reserva-
ws about the “build down”
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