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Mattox will ask court
to vacate Autry’s stay
United Press International
AUSTIN — Attorney Gener
al Jim Mattox said Thursday
that his office would ask the U.S.
Supreme Court to vacate the
last-minute stay of execution
that saved convicted murderer
James David Autry from death
by lethal injection.
Supreme Court Justice
Byron White issued the stay late
Tuesday just half an hour be
fore the 29-year-old killer of a
store clerk was scheduled to be
executed with a lethal combina
tion of three drugs.
In his order, White said the
execution should be delayed
pending the high court’s resolu-
Texas already has a
review procedure be
cause it requires man
datory appeals of all
capital punishment
cases to the Texas
Court of Criminal
Appeals.
In the California case the
Supreme Court has agreed to
decide whether state courts
must review each death sent
ences imposed to ensure they
are in line with punishments
handed down for similar crimes.
tion of an unrelated California
Mattox, who said his motion
to the court would be filed “with
in days,” maintained that Texas
already has such a review proce
dure because it requires manda
tory appeals of all capital pun
ishment cgses to the Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals.
“The state of Texas believes
that is sufficient to comply with
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the constitutional mandate of
the Supreme Court to ensure
the even-handed, rational and
consistent imposition of the
death penalty in Texas” Mattox
said.
Mattox also said he would file
the motion to the Supreme
Court to get a “reading” on
whether the court intends to
hold up all executions until the
resolution of the California case,
which was scheduled for argu
ments in November.
“Depending on the Supreme
Court’s response in this case, we
will know what course of action
to take in other pending death
penalty cases in Texas,” he said.
Civil rights attorneys have
hailed White’s stay order as a
major development and said it
could halt all pending execution
and cause a large-scale review of
capital punishment sentences.
There currently are no ex
ecutions scheduled in Texas. If
the Supreme Court did over
turn Autry’s stay, it would be up
to the state district judge who
originally heard his case to set a
new execution date.
Autry has steadfastly denied
any guilt in the death of store
clerk Shirley Drouet, 43, and
claimed a co-defendant in the
1980 slaying was the trig-
german.
But John Alton Sandifer,
who was released from prison
last month after serving 3 'A
years for an unrelated convic
tion, refuses to discuss the crime
he and Autry were said to be
involved with. Sandifer was in
dicted along with Autry, but the
charges against him were later
dropped.
UniCcd Press Int
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OCT. 30
Venezuelan receives
UH leaders’award
United Press Inti
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United Press International
HOUSTON — Venezuelan
presidential-candidate Jaime
Lusinchi said his country would
be able to repay its foreign debt
of more than $30 billion if he is
elected president of his country.
Lusinchi, in Houston with a
delegation of high-ranking
Venezuelan educators and gov
ernment leaders, received an
award from the University of
Houston designating him as
“Distinguished Social and Edu
cational Leader of the Amer
icas.”
The South American educa
tor, physician and political lead
er said the debt will be paid
“once we get sensible terms.” He
would not elaborate what terms
are considered “sensible.”
“Sometimes it is better not to
talk,” he said. “There is still some
to go until I assume the responsi
bilities.”
Lusinchi, 56, is one of 12 can
didates running for the pres
idency of Venezuela in the Dec.
4 election. He is one of the
founding members of the
Accion Democratica party, the
main opposition party. Lusinchi
is considered one of the front
runners in the election.
Venezuela has been a demo
cratic country since the 1950s,
because of the commitment and
determination of labor, man
agement, the armed forces and
major political parties, Lusinchi
said.
He said the people of the
country support democracy.
“More than 70 percent of the
Venezuelan population is under
30 years old,” Lusinchi said.
“This means that the great ma-
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jority of Venezuelans havtiH^Wh' 16 ’Flouse
recollection of the didonHF v ‘ s anc ^ several
and that they werebroughtuj ~f rs P a y t .^ e ‘ r . * asl
a climate of liberty and dftH arc ' a vv hile his w
cracy, like no other geneHw ren watched I rot
before them.” Hs podium.
In a speech Mednesdayil
fore about 400 students alii
University of Houston, Lusin I
said his country ran upthefa I
ign debt partly because of era |
and confused policy.
“The financial crisis of s« |
countries of Latin America! |
gotten to the pointofnoreM |
he said, warning the cons®
ences are unpredictable.
He said the world iswatcl
Central America and theb
bean, where there are trail y
al dictatorships offeringoppi
sion in the name ofa
communism and “dictatoislH55>'’
in modern garb.”
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Bones discovere
at suicide site
United Press International
FORT WORTH — Patholog
ists began piecing together frag
ments of human skeletons
found Thursday in the debris
beneath a burned out house
which was the site of a bizarre
suicide four years ago.
Authorities said a workman
bulldozing debris at the house
which burned two weeks ago un
covered the bones and sum
moned police. Officers
mined the bones were thoseol
least one human and launcW
full investigation.
Police said a 43-year
cornmited suicide at the houK 1
February 1980, by hanging
self from a light fixture. Inti
gators said George Earl Graf
a note which mentioned a
and child who have been
since the suicide.
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