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HUNTSVILLE — Another
36 inmates on Texas’ death row
have been assigned to a special
prison work program which
allows them to live and work
among the general prison popu
lation.
The program was part of fed
eral court order designed to im
prove living conditions at the
Texas Department of Correc
tions.
Previously, death row in
mates were confined to indi
vidual cells for 22 hours each
day. Under the work program,
certain death row inmates are
allowed to work and live among
other prison inmates outside of
death row.
DON’T PARK YOUR BRAINS
There are lots of hard questions in this world-
Why don’t justice and truth always prevail?
Where is real peace?
Why do bad things happen to good people?
(A Jewish rabbi used this title for a good book)
How come jobs are hard to find after getting an
education?
Is there a God?
Questions are the business of research, universities-and the
CHURCH.
Don’t park your brains-not even in church!
Any question is acceptable (God knows all thoughts).
Answers are not always easily available and sometimes the
answer is not what we expect. Wednesday
We are all on a quest with our questions. Evening
DON’T PARK YOUR BRAINS! Candlelight
Service 10:00
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Hubert Beck, Pastor 846-6687
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TDC spokesman Rick Hart
ley said Monday death row con
victs picked for the program are
considered less violent and less
prone to escape. The inmates
were selected from the 160 in
mates now on death row.
The names of the inmates
selected for the program have
not been released, with the ex
ception of Billy Hughes, 31, who
was assigned to the program in
October. Hughes was convicted
in the 1976 killing of a Depart
ment of Public Safety officer.
Hughes operates a drilling
machine in the Ellis Unit broom
factory. Although he said he has
had no problems with inmates in
the general population, officials
are wary about mixing death
row inmates with the general
population for fear that other
convicts might harass them.
As many as 70 death row in
mates eventually may partici
pate in the program. Previously,
all death row inmates were con
fined to their cells except for a
two-hour per day recreation
period in a small outdoor yard.
Prosecution
Jones’
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to show
killing motives
GEORGETOWN — A pro
secutor promised Tuesday he
would show why murder trial
defendant Genene Jones kil
led a baby girl with a drug in
jection, even though he told
prospective jurors motive was
less important than the fact
she killed the infant.
Jury selection in Jones’ trial
moved tediously slowly as
Kerr Gounty District Attorney
Ron Sutton discussed technic
al and legal details for more
than two hours with a pool of
about 110 prospective jurors.
Sutton said he would pre
sent evidence that showed a~
clear motive for why the voca
tional nurse injected 15-
mo nth-old Ghelsea Ann
McClellan with a powerful
muscle relaxant in 1982, but
he said the eventual 12-
memberjury should focus less
on the motive and more on
evidence he said would estab
lish her guilt.
“Jurors often ask me what
D u ring in vestiga tion
of Jones in 1982, au
thorities theorized
she injected children
with life-threatening
drugs because she en
joyed the ego boost
and thrill of reviving
them.
state has to prove in this case
but I expect during the coursfe
of this trial the state will prove
to you a motive.
“You may or may not be
lieve the motive but that
doesn’t make any difference.
People do things for all sorts
of reasons. Sometimes it
makes sense and sometimes it
doesn’t.”
During investigation of
Jones in 1982, authorities
theorized she injected chil
dren with life-threatening
drugs because she enjoyed the
ego boost and thrill of reviving
them.
has pleaded inno-
charged with eight countso
injury to a child in Kerrvil
and San Antonio. Those chi
dren survived.
Jones, 33, stared fixedly *
Sutton throughout his suit
ments, which marked the firs
time in the two-dayjuryselet
tion process that prospector
jurors were informed of thr
nature of the charge agains
her.
was the motive — the Perry
Mason type thing,” Sutton
said. “There’s no motive the
Jones
cent.
In addition to the murder
charge in Chelsea’s death,
which carries a maximum
penalty of life imprisonment,
the mother of two has been
The nurse, who is divorcei
from the father of her tw
children and is separater
from a 19-year-old manskt
married last April, has
held in the Williamson Counn
jail since October, when he
$225,000 bond was revoked
The trial was moved from
Kerrville to Georgetown oni
change of venue.
The work program is part of
a long-running prison reform
lawsuit ordered by U.S. District
Judge William Wayne Justice,
who mandated sweeping
changes in the state’s prison
systenj.
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White needs financial
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$1.5 million in extraneous ex
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office, Gov. Mark White turned
to the same group of financraV
supporters who helped bankroll
his gubernatorial campaign in
1982.
Records showed Tuesday
that White continued to borrow
money in 1983 to pay for travel
expenses, gifts, video equip
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than a dozen of the people who
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loans for his 1982 campaign.
They included Austin lawyer
Shannon Ratliff, Austin busi
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former Democratic Party chair
man Calvin Guest of Bryan,
Robert Lanier of Houston and
Gene Reamer of Houston.
The detailed list of spending
by White and other elected offi
cials were provided late Monday
in the annual “officeholder’s re
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list of money that was raised and
how it was spent.
White’s report showed he
spent $7,727 for four trips to the
Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washing
ton, D.C., $3,625 for gifts to
friends, $9,620 for video equip
ment, $49,203 for “mansion
accessories,” $1,080 for a
limousine service and $ 1,939 for
purchases from a posh San
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An aide to White, whoasle
not to be identified, said thep.
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for many of the expenses sol mem
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In other reports, Lt. Gov.
Hobby raised $629,637 whif
spending $206,831. ve
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