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Five minutes later, the court re-
ied a request for a stay of exe-
Ltion and an application to hear
jappeal of Jones' sentence, court
pesman Ed Turner said.
The votes were 9-0 each time.
The vote was 6-3 on the court's
section of James' appeal on
ftdnesday.
That decision marked the first
uteinadeath penalty case by the
Hurt's newest member, Ruth Bad-
[Ginsburg, who was among the
iree dissenting votes.
Attorneys took their llth-hour
jpeals again to the U.S. Supreme
iurt on Thursday after the Texas
iiiirt of Criminal Appeals turned
jimbs down.
3 James' attorneys also asked the
Itxas Board of Pardons and
iroles to commute the sentence
"life, saying he had been abused
uachild by an alcoholic father
id also suffered from alcoholism.
"He was extremely intoxicated
:thetime of the crime,' attorney
ilandy Welch said.
When he was arrested, John-
nooperated fully with police,
iving a full statement and lead
ing them to the murder weapon.
He also expressed great remorse
and sorrow for his victims.
"I do not believe that his execu
tion will serve justice or any other
legitimate goal of our criminal jus
tice system.''
James was the second con
demned killer to be put to death
this week in Texas, the seventh in
the last six weeks and the 14th this
year.
He was convicted of the death
of Barbara Mayfield, 47, one of
two women abducted and shot
Oct. 22, 1985.
Testimony showed James ab
ducted Mayfield from a bar she
operated in High Island, then shot
her in the foot.
He put her in the trunk of her
car and drove to a convenience
store in Winnie, about 15 miles
away, robbed it of $200 and ab
ducted the female clerk.
On an isolated road outside
Winnie, he forced the two women
to commit sexual acts with each
other before he sodomized and
raped at least one of them.
Then he shot them both with a
.38-caliber pistol and left them in a
roadside ditch, court records
show. Relatives of one of the miss
ing women found them.
Ex-banker pleads guilty
in illegal Iraq loans case
The Associated Press
ATLANTA — A former banker pleaded guilty Thursday to three
charges in a politically charged bank fraud case involving $5.5 billion in
illegal loans to Iraq.
The surprise plea came 11 months after Christopher Drogoul, 44,
withdrew another guilty plea in the case and six days before he was to
go on trial in U.S. District Court. He pleaded guilty to three counts in a
70-count indictment and agreed to accept a sentence of between 63 and
78 months in prison, said Justice Department spokesman Carl Stem.
Drogoul's lawyer, however, said he will ask that the banker be sen
tenced to the 17 months he has already served. Sentencing by U.S. Dis
trict Judge G. Ernest Tidwell is scheduled for Nov. 29.
Drogoul was accused of engineering a network of loans and credit
agreements to Iraq while managing the Atlanta branch of Italy's state-
owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.
Though he maintained he was following orders from BNL head
quarters in Rome, federal prosecutors insisted he acted alone and de
frauded the bank and U.S. regulators.
Some of the loans to Iraq, funneled through a U.S. government pro
gram designed to encourage agricultural exports, allegedly were used
to fortify Saddam Hussein's military before the Persian Gulf War.
Drogoul withdrew last year's plea midway through a sentencing
hearing that included allegations of a massive coverup involving the
Bush administration and BNL officials in Rome.
But he entered the new guilty plea to end the protracted case, "as a
result of the urging of his family to terminate the nightmare," said his
lawyer, Robert M. Simels.
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