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Page 4/The Battalion/Thursday, September 15, 1988 Convicted man wants firing squcjj HUNTSVILLE (AP) — A convicted killer who faced execution by injection in the Texas death chamber early Thursday said he preferred a f ir ing squad. “I would rather be shot,” Warren Bridge said in a recent interview. “I would rather die stand ing up — with my shoes on — than laying down. The way they do it now is a druggy way to die. I wouldn’t want to be hanged or ride old Sparky (the electric chair). I’m not very fond of electric ity. Just a plain bullet is cleaner somehow.” Bridge, 28, was sentenced to die for the Feb. 10, 1980, robbery-shooting of Walter Rose, 62. Bridge’s fate rested Wednesday with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a federal dis trict judge in Galveston refused to issue a stay. The U.S. Supreme Court also could rule in his case. Galveston attorney Anthony Griffin contends in his appeal that jurors in Bridge’s capital mur der trial were not allowed to consider mitigating circumstances during the punishment phase of Bridge’s trial. In his appeal, Griffin is citing arguments used in another appeal filed on behalf of Texas death row inmate Johnny Penry, whose case the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear. “My worst fear is going over there and 25 to 30 minutes before I’m getting executed I gel a stay,” Bridge said. “Then I have to come back and go through all this again.” Rose was shot four times with a .38-caliber pis tol as Bridge and his co-defendant, Robert Jo seph Costa, robbed the convenience store of $2 1. Rose died of his wounds on Feb. 24, 1980, four days after Bridge and Costa were arrested. Costa was convicted of aggravated robbery and sentenced to 13 years in prison. He was re leased under mandatory supervision in October 1986 after serving five years and eight months in prison. Bridge, a native of Fauquier County, Va., said he was in trouble since he was 8. He grew up in Albany, Ga. Before coming to Texas, he served 13 months of a 15-year prison term for burglary in Georgia. Bridge has said fie was sorry thatRo; hut complained his life on death rowttj than the shooting victim’s fate. “1 sit here on death row for l [ k yg think about dying, and 1 believe Mr.Ros] heller deal,” he said. "1 keep wishingthn hurry up and do something. I tell you,;(■] will drive you crazy.” lie During his time on death row, Bridgt, plicated in the bombing of anotherinuil and the non-f atal stabbing of a second4 incidents blamed on prison gang warfare! lias been linked i<i mcmlici Mil)) n; na lc< 1 n Brotherhood, a white supremacist prison-jHinst "I’m not affiliated,” lie said. ‘Tmfn :nil r S ei everybody. And now I’ve got a blackatlr In a s a touchy subject.” aS t wee iam H. Aftei Ins aiirsi Im (lie shooting, is taped briefly from the GalvestonCou; nine wl knocking out a hole in the jail wait Hcj^Hlletl tured 19 houi slatei hitchhikingalongs ] He sa Authorities: Beach residents should evacuate by sundown GALVESTON (AP) — Authori ties calling for the first evacuations Wednesday along the Texas Gulf Coast were asking beachdwellers to leave by sunset despite the still un certain path of the most powerful hurricane on record. “It’s almost like a mass panic situation. We have many people calling so In Corpus Christi, U-Haul Mar keting Co. President Alan Kit khan described the scene at the self-serv ice rental center where his office is located. Galveston County officials called for residents of the unprotected Bo livar Peninsula to leave immediately, citing poor road conditions that could hinder later escape. And stu dents at the University of Texas Medical Branch were asked to leave the island city after their final Wednesday classes, a spokesman said. Forecasters were still searching for clues to the course of the killer storm, which packed wind speeds of more than 175 miles per hour be fore slamming into the Yucatan Pen insula where thousands fled. and coming in here that we had to start a waiting list, and it keeps growing before we can get more equipment in. ” — Alan Kirkhart, U-Haul Marketing “It’s almost like a mass panic situa tion,” Kirkhart said. “We have so many people calling and coming in here that we had to start a waiting list, and it keeps growing before we can get more equipment in.” “We’d like to see everybody off Bolivar by sunset tonight.” Tomp kins said. “We’re trying to get people out whiile there’s still daylight.” Because of a shortage of lumber, he said, some Corpus Christi resi dents have driven as far as Austin and San Antonio to rent trucks and trailers, bringing plywood back with them to board up homes prior to evacuating. Others are buying pat k- ing tape for their windows because local stores have sold out of heavier tape, he said. Across hundreds of miles of Texas coast considered vulnerable to the massive hurricane, public offi cials huddled Wednesday to design escape routes and prepare for cata strophic wind and rain. Many residents, however, needed no prodding to prepare for the worst. Grocery and hardware stores were swamped with shoppers and lumber and water supplies were re ported in short supply throughout the region. Bill Tompkins, Galveston Coun ty’s emergency preparedness coordi nator, called for the Wednesday evacuation of the Bolivar Peninsula, which includes the city of Crystal Beach. The Texas Salvation Army’s disas ter forces were placed on alert Wednesday and were told to expect the worst from the storm that has al ready killed at least 1 1 people. The also were warned to ready their shel ters for possibly thousands of refu gees, officials said. Ft. Col. John Mikles, Texas com mander of the Salvation Army, has directed officers in the Gulf Coast cities to stock shelters and canteens in McAllen, Corpus Christi, Texas City and Port Arthur. “We’ve had calls from units from as far away as Atlanta and Louisville, Ky., and they say they’re ready to come at a moment’s notice,” he said. Bottled water suppliers say they are bringing in additional shipments from inland storage and production facilities, but are still having prob lems meeting demand. “Our business is, essentially, going off the wall right now,” Richard Cashman, president of the Houston Division of Sierra Spring Water Co., Inc., said. “We have five facilities along the gulf coast and, not knowing yet which way the hurricane is going, the demand is incredible throughout the whole region," he said. “So far, we’ve done a pretty good job of keeping up with demand, but trans portation has been a problem lo calise we’re having to truck in f rom San Antonio and Dallas." lerv'.o Twent y “ te tra Court decife,,, to review csl" 1 -' bartme. of urine tesiK jus sale AUSTIN (AP) - Tin Supreme Court decided t. :airs to i case in Hja'ii) day war to review •house worker-tn I f ughe: satioi for r samp ■■ Drilling iiuct uiifiiiplmmeni 5^ bur benefits ; •fusing to e for drug-scr lttc ! k |!: ogg J^fcspeeial naon^ u ried ■'it" JM 011 ' jhoues ; led j)i It dc Oral arguments befi i qui t were set for Oct.26 ^Hughes employee ess.i was discharged on ( 1985. His initial claim ft* ployment compensation was denied on Nov. 5 I exas Employment Ct sion’s local of fice in Palest! Bodessa appealed to Appeal Tribunal, which the dec ision that Bodess qualified from receiving! On Feb. 12, 1986, the firmed the AppealTribi 1 lughes filed suit int < ■ '! I I i : \ ( < Mil t-.ll-lysts 'll' i .i1111 <I mimih.ii\ |ii(i;: vhat ii" versing the TEC and d< that Bodessa was disc from receiving benefits. The 12th Court of Ap? I v ler affirmed the km judgment. The Supreme Coun. agreed to review two points of error in tl court’s ruling. 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