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Arthur Frederick Goode
II, killer of two small boys,
crying in Florida’s elec-
ric chair Thursday less than
ix hours after Louisiana exe-
tited Elmo Patrick Sonnier.
It was the First time two
aen have been put to death
n the same day since the Su-
ireme Court lifted its ban on
apital punishment in 1976.
ihe electrocutions brought
o 18 the number of con-
lemned prisoners executed
ince 1976.
Eleven of those executions
tave taken place in Southern
irisons. Goode was the
ourth to be electrocuted in
loricla since 1976; no other
tale has held more than
hree executions.
Goode, 30, who had said
arlierhe would “kill as many
get my hands
was set free, re-
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if he
icnted in his final tearful sec-
ge front I in( j s before the death hood
ai fromli m dropped over his face,
s, lexasl Sonnier, 35, convicted of
ional Oi aping a teenage girl and
3, a vacali hen killing her and her boyf-
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his victims’ fathers as he was
strapped into the chair in An
gola prison and begged their
forgiveness.
One nodded his accep
tance, but the other stood
grimly silent. The men were
allowed by the state to watch
the death of the man who
killed their children.
Sonnier, 35, died in “Grue
some Gertie,” the oaken
Louisiana electric chair, at
1:15 a.m. Goode was pro
nounced dead in ‘‘Old
Sparky” at Starke, Fla., at
7:09 a.m.
The pudgy, pockmarked
Goode spent an hour-long
press conference Wednesday
telling newsmen of the plea
sure he found in child molest
ing. His last wish, he said, was
to have sex with a small boy.
But he presented a differ
ent picture in the death
chamber.
“I’m very upset,” he said in
a quavering voice when a
prison official extended a mi
crophone for his last words.
“I don’t know what to say,
really.”
“I want to apologize to my
parents,” he said haltingly.
tears welling from his eyes. “I
have remorse for the boys I
murdered. It’s difficult for
me to show it.”
Goode killed Jason Ver-
dow, 9, after escaping from a
mental hospital in Spring
Grove, Md., and later killed
11-year-old Kenneth Dawson
in Falls Church, Va. He was
sentenced to life in prison in
the Virginia slaying.
Sonnier, in his final
statement in the Louisiana
death chamber, apologized to
Lloyd LeBIanc and Godfrey
Bourque, the fathers of teen
age victims David LeBIanc
and Loretta Bourque.
Bourque, his arms folded,
stared at Sonnier silently.
Sonnier and his younger
brother, Eddie, then 17, ab
ducted the teenagers from a
lovers’ lane, took them to a
remote area, raped Bourque
while her fiance was hand
cuffed to a tree, then shot
both to death. Eddie Sonnier
was sentenced to life in
prison.
White pushes education reforms
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AUSTIN — Despite a continu
ing state budget crunch and de
lays in devising a specific plan
for teacher pay raises. Gov.
Mark White said Thursday he
still is determined to push a
package of expensive educatio
nal reforms through the Legis
lature in a special session this
summer.
“The time for action is now.
We should not delay it,” White
said.
He said the special session,
aimed at implementing the rec
ommendations of H. Ross Per-
r
: BRAZOS
ot’s education committee, might
be held later in the summer
than originally hoped because
the committee will not complete
work on a specific teacher pay
raise plan until late this month.
The governor said he would
not set a date for the session nor
give legislators a look at a tax
hike plan until the Perot com
mittee finalized its recommen
dations.
The committee released a
preliminary report last month
but still has not come up with a
definite pay raise plan for tea
chers.
“We’re not going to be circu
lating a tax plan until we see
what the costs are,” White said
at his weekly news conference.
“We’re going to get the final re
port in before we ask somebody
(legislators) to sign off on some
unknown.
“I don’t think it’s fair to the
Legislature to suggest to them
that they should agree to some
thing before they see it in writ-
sus on some written package,
then we won’t be calling the ses
sion.”
Once the report has been
completed, White said, he
would not expect lawmakers to
simply pass the plan.
Legislators also expressed
concern about the estimated
$2.6 billion price tag on the rec
ommendations in light of pre
dictions of a revenue shortfall
as high as $4 billion in the next
biennium.
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Attorneys still hunt
for nurse trial site
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United Press International
jSAN ANTONIO — A de
mise attorney for Genene
Jnes said Thursday that he
Bexar County prosecutors
|ve not found a suitable site
the nurse's pending trial on
forces of injury to a child.
(Corpus Christi said no be-
|use it lacked courtroom
ice, he said.
y ' korney Royal Griffin and
ternatiouil :dal prosecutor Nick Rothe
\ UI | ]ir re scneduled to appear be-
I l, t |e District Judge Pat Priest at
()ti t ^ ,m. today for a change ol ve-
es found ti hearin g-
soutliwe«l 0nes > 33, is scheduled to go
are drop]
on trial May 14 on charges she
injected 4-month-old Rolando
Santos with heparin, a blood
thinning drug. The child sur
vived.
Griffin said Priest will decide
on a new site for the trial if at
torneys cannot mutually agree.
If the decision is left to Priest,
the law provides the new site
must be in a county close to
Bexar County but beyond the
reach of San Antonio newspa
per and television coverage.
Last month, Jones was con
victed of murder in the injec
tion death of a 15-month-old
Kerrville girl.
hallenging act
Dr bees in space
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box of b» APE CANAVERAL, Fla. —
d that 35 ausands of buzzing bees will
1 and toot nd six days in orbit aboard
id no ^ shuttle Challenger in a stu-
ny was [nt experiment to find out if
leinsectscan build their sticky
Jislrict At jfieycombs in the weightles-
aid patlid Mss of space.
hie to df [Dan Poskevich, 19, a student
;e, gendetfTennessee Tech University
ic infant. ICookeville, Tenn., designed
; bones experiment as part of NA-
rissom Ws student involvement pro-
s) were«lam.
git h,ad toll never have done anything
llibees,” the engineering slu-
he invesWt said Thursday at the Ken-
id. Ily Space Center. “I’ve never
lised bees.
'When I first started, I didn’t
sournn
Illy want to do it. I thought
lerewas no way anybody from
1 (found here (Waverly) could
About 3,300 honeybees and
their queen will be used in the
experiment. They will spend
their time in space housed in a
special bee box stowed in Chal
lenger’s crew cabin.
J. Robert Peterson of Honey
well Inc., sponsor of the project,
said the bee box is structurally
reinforced, and the astronauts
will not need any fly swatters
for their mission.
“Any bee that gets out of
there is really going to be a ter
ror,” he said. “The box is built
like a tank.”
Honeybees typically build
regular, six-sided cylinders as
the structural unit that makes
up the honeycomb. The hexa
gon shape holds more honey
than triangular or square struc
tures, and also provides strong
stability.
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