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HUNTSVILLE (AP) —Prison of-
tials were forced to lock down a
Ing of death row convicts who re-
jsed to report for work earlier this
lonth in memory of a fellow inmate
who was executed, inmates disclosed
Wednesday.
The action on behalf of Donald
lene Franklin caused and interrupt
ion in work flow at the nation’s only
fison factory totally staffed by con-
:mned men.
Texas Department of Corrections
officials said a factory supervisor
Jisspoke when he previously al-
|wed inmates to remain in their
»lls on the day of an execution be-
mse they were distraught or didn’t
ire to work that day.
The courtesy had been in effect
jnce the factory opened 2'/a years
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“Ttn not aware of any written pol
icy,” spokesman David Nunnelee
said. “It was explained to them there
was no policy.”
The supervisor earlier this year
was transferred to another unit and
a new supervisor was in charge Nov.
3 when Donald Gene Franklin be
came the first Texas inmate to be
put to death since January.
This time, about 45 inmates —
three times the usual number —
failed to report to work the day of
Franklin’s execution.
“They would have been better off
to sacrifice that one day of produc
tion and start off the next day with
an explanation,” Lester Bower, an
inmate who works in the Ellis I Unit
garment factory, said. “But no, they
want to make a big deal out of it and
so it’ll be two or three months
smoothing feathers back down. In
the long run, production-wise,
they’ll suffer more by what they did.
“It just got out of hand. I don’t
know how else to explain it.”
Franklin, executed for the 1975
abduction-slaying of a San Antonio
nurse, was one of the longest-serving
inmates on death row.
His appeal, until rejected in June
by the U.S. Supreme Court, blocked
virtually all executions in the state
for about a year.
“What made this situation a little
different was that because of the cus
tomary 12 to 15 people laying in (re
maining in their cells and refusing to
work) — because Franklin was so
well-known and because it had been
so long since there had been an exe
cution — about 45 men laid in,”
Bower said.
Only nine men reported to work
for the regular 7 a.m. shift.
“You have to understand the men
do not understand they have done
anything wrong,” Bower said. “It’s
the old minor understanding that
blows up into a major confronta
tion.”
Instead of the usual two security
people, nearly two dozen officers
converged on the plant.
At least four inmates who work at
the start of a line making shorts were
written up as disclipinary cases ac
cusing them of refusing to work.
The lockdown, which confines in
mates to their cells, was lifted the
next day, Nunnelee said.
“Both us prisoners and the ad
ministration just grope around in
the dark and once in a while we
bump into each other,” Bower said.
“We all learn from these little expe
riences.”
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Jurors
i Wednesday convicted mass mur-
:r suspect Leo Narvaiz Jr., de-
ribed by prosecutors as a cold, gut-
ss coward who butchered his ex-
rlfriend and her three siblings be-
use she spurned him for another
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The 11-woman, one-man jury de
liberated 2'A hours before convict-
Ig the 20-year-old Narvaiz of killing
Is former girlfriend. Shannon
lann, 17; her siblings, Jennifer, 19;
lartha, 15; and Ernest, 11, at their
lobile home on April 15.
■ Narvaiz, who has been calm
Jiroughout the trial, was Fidgety he
re the verdict was read, but
owed no reaction as the decision
as revealed.
The punishment phase of the trial
11 begin Thursday morning. Nar-
dz faces the maximum penalty of
eathby injection.
District Attorney Fred Rodriguez
eclined to comment, saying he
ould wait until after the punish-
rent phase.
But defense attorney Ernie Glenn
said his client was surprised by the
capital murder verdict.
“I think anybody would be sur
prised by a verdict such as this,”
Glenn said. “(But) I think Leo will
accept the verdict as it came back
from the jury.”
The guilty verdict came one day
after a tape recording of one of the
victims’ Finals words was played in
court.
Shannon Mann called a 911 emer
gency telephone operator during
the attacks and said her boyfriend
was beating them up. A voice on the
tape, identified by a police detective
as Narvaiz’s, asked Shannon Mann,
“Why did you have to do this to me?”
Rodriguez said that Narvaiz killed
the Manns to punish them because
Shannon refused to see him any
more.
“He wants justice. He’s gotten the
right to a public trial,” Rodriguez
said in closing arguments Wednes
day.
“What right did this gutless, spin
eless, murderer accord them? None
at all,” said Rodriguez, who de
scribed the slayings as the most grisly
in the county’s history.
“He started out with that grain of
vengeance in his black heart. He got
to thinking he had been replaced.
He had a mission in mind and when
he got out there he executed it.
“There was a smell of fear in the
mobile home. They stared death in
the face and they saw a knife-wield
ing, cowardly, cutthroat — Leo Nar
vaiz — and that was the last person
they saw before they died,” Rodri
guez said.
Narvaiz, accused of breaking win
dows in a truck belonging to Shan
non’s boyfriend in late March, had
maintained his innocence after his
arrest.
He told police investigators two
days after the slayings, however, that
he remembered going to the Mann
home after snorting a large amount
of cocaine. He said he stabbed Jen
nifer after she stabbed him, but that
he did not remember stabbing Er
nest, Shannon or Martha.
A tape-recorded telephone call
made by Shannon Mann to the 911
emergency service that was played in
court on Tuesday, however, re
vealed that Narvaiz was at the home
during the slayings and that Shan
non Mann begged him for her life,
prosecutors said.
“Leo, please don’t,” Shannon
Mann is heard saying. “I love you. I
love ... I love you.”
“Did you call the cops?” the male,
identiFied by police as Narvaiz, asks
Shannon Mann.
“No, I didn’t,” she said.
Testimony has revealed that the
slayings were carried out in less than
10 minutes and that some knife
blows were delivered so hard that
blades broke in the victims’ bodies.
Narvaiz has shown little reaction
during the three-week trial, which
has attracted more than 100 people
per day to the small courtroom.
Glenn suggested in closing argu
ments that police did not do their job
correctly and may be trying to pin
the crime on Narvaiz.
“Look at these pictures and de
cide, ‘Is it possible that this little guy
did this all by himself?” he said.
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Progress Report
To; The Students of A&M
From: Student Government Communications
Public Relations Chairman: Michelle Van Duyn
Newsletter Chairman/Editor: Rod Jag
Staff Writers: Meaghan Affleck, Tim Meyer, Beth Schreiber,
Terri Welch
Re: The activities of Student Government during the Fall of 1988
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1. A Summary of current Status of the committees in Student Gov
ernment
2. Some projected plans from each committees for the rest of the
1988 school year.
3. To better inform the students at Texas A&M on the progress of
Student Government
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A. Big Event- A one day event for students at Texas A&M to do
nate their time & skill through services to the Bryan College Station
Sommunity.
1. Current Status
A. Now contacting student organizations, dorms, fraternities and
sororities to get committments to work.
B. Working with the mayors and City Managers of Bryan/College
Station to gather lists of jobs needing to help students
2. Projected Status
A. To gain Texas & national media Coverage to help promote the
Big Event at other Universities throughout Texas and other states.
B. COSGA-Texas A&M’s National Conference on Student Govern
ment Associations.
1. Current Status
A. Now contacting 330 delegates from 75 schools nation wide to in
vite them to the conference.
2. Projected Status
A. To host COSGA on February 25-28, 1989
C. Elections Commission-Coordinates the Fall Freshman elec
tions and Spring All-U elections for Student Government, class
council, and Yell leaders
1. Current Status
A. Completed Freshman elections
2. Projected Status
A. Getting ready for Spring Elections.
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D. Freshman Programs- Leadership development Program for
freshman
1. Current Status
A. September, had finish Fish Aide Lock-in
1. Speakers Paul Henry, Dr. Coldis
B. Meeting Senators
C. Traditions meeting with yell Leaders and Revielle
2. Projected Status
A. Try to get all Fish Aides on committees
B. Christmas Party for Student Government in December at Dr.
Adaio’s House.
E. Legislative Study Group (LSG)- To be a professional rep
resentative for the Students of Texas A&M in our state’s Congress
on issues affecting the Students.
1. Current Status
A. Researching the possibility of undergraduate tuition being
placed in the
hands of the Board of Regents
B. Researching the South Texas Law Suit
C. Incorporate Texas A&l into the A&M System
F. Muster- Plans and execute Muster ceremony on campus.
1. Current Status
A. Developed a new committee the “Endowment Committee” to Es
tablish Endowment fund for muster.
B. Endowment Committee
1. Managing and distributing of muster coin.
2. Projected Status
A. Through the Public Relations Committee, maintaining a Strong
awarness with the tradition of muster on campus and inform others
of its history and its role to unify Students and former Students at
Texas A&M.
G. Parents Weekend-Coordinates activities on Parents Weekend,
April 7-9, such as the All University Awards Ceremony, RHA Ca
sino Night, MSC Varsity Shows, Corps Review.
1. Current Status
A. Informing students about Parents Weekend and the need to
make Hotel Reservations now.
B. Schedules will be available in the spring
C. Applications for nominations for Aggie Parents of the year will be
From November 28 thru February 10.
2. Projected Status
A. A fantastic Parents Weekend with a lot of activities for parents to
attend.
B. For parents to see all the aspects that Texas A&M has to offer.
H. Traditions Council-Working to keep traditions alive at Texas
A&M
I. Current Status
A. Recently held “Howdy Week” October 31 to November 5.
B. Selling Howdy T-shirts in MSC
C. Those who said Howdy to tradition council members win prizes
2. Projected Status
A. Novemberl 9, switch off for kick off.
B. Boutonnieres on sale November 14 thru 17th
Legislative Branch
A. Finance- Financial allocation of Student Services fees
1. Current Status
A. Committee Selected, and process of meeting with the directors
of the various Student Services
2. Projected Status
A. Budget Seminar Scheduled for November 13 to help give mem
bers an over view of Student Services
B. External Affairs- Issues arising off campus
1. Current Status
A. Working on improving relations between community and school,
specifically with high school and improving A&M library
C. Internal Affairs- Keeps the Senate active during and outside of
formal meetings
D. Rules and Regulations- deals with revisions of University Reg
ulations.
1. Current Status
A. Currently we are researching Senate reappointment for the
1989-90 academic year.
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Sat 11-3:00
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