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Execution date set for man who raped,
abducted, murdered Lubbock woman
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ment because of the
1 7 year delay.
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — For
mer Lubbock District Attorney
Alton Griffin believes some peo
ple forfeit their right to life and
Clarence Lackey is one of them.
“There are depraved individu
als and I think he is a depraved
individual,” said Griffin, who
first sent Lackey to the Texas
death row more than 17 years
ago. “I don’t see any socially re
deeming feature in him that
gives him a right to live.”
Lackey, 40, was set for execu
tion early Friday for the 1977 ab
duction, rape, beating and near
decapitation of 23-year-old Toni
Diane Kumpf in Lubbock. A state
appeals court described the ap
parently random fatal attack as
“senseless, savage and cruel.”
Lackey won a stay last Friday
from U.S. District Judge Royal
Furgeson in Midland after attor
neys argued that because of his
17-year stint on death row, exe
cuting him now would amount
to cruel and unusual punish
ment.
State attorneys appealed
and the reprieve was lifted late
Wednesday by the 5th U.S. Cir
cuit Court of Appeals in New
Orleans.
Defense attorneys asked for a
rehearing. Denial of the request
likely would send the case to the
U.S. Supreme Court.
The argument about lengthy
death row imprisonment has
won some sympathy from
Supreme Court Justice Paul
Stevens, who last month wrote
the subject was important and
novel and deserved high court
attention but only after it had
been addressed by lower courts.
Lackey’s attorneys said as a
result of his lengthy deathm
imprisonment, the ninth-grai
dropout suffered mental stres
and was physically ill because!*
worried so much about dying.
In 1982, the Texas Court
Criminal Appeals threw outki;
conviction, ruling a jurorii
properly was dismissed at I
trial, which had been moved!
San Angelo because of publiciti
about the case in Lubbock.
He was tried a second time
Midland in 1983 and again re
ceived a death sentence.
Lackey had previous convic
tions, including burglary ant
burglary with intent to comm:
rape. He had been out of prist
less than six months whentk
Kumpf slaying occurred.
Kumpf was abducted frot
her Lubbock apartment short!;
before dawn on July 31, 19771jj
a man who kicked in her door
Later that day, her severe!;
beaten body was found in a
ton field near Lackey’s home
She had been raped and he
throat slashed.
OxyChem leak over Robstown goes to trial
JOHN CARPENTER'S
VlUAGE OF THE DAMNED
□ The attorney for the
plaintiffs claims that the
plant failed to repair a
faulty electrical system.
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CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) —
It’s a toxic tort so big that it can’t
be tried in a normal courtroom.
On one side is a team of
lawyers portraying Occidental
Chemical Corp. as negligent for
allowing a chemical leak that
drifted over Robstown in 1992.
On the other side, a team of
lawyers attack the plaintiffs as
greedy people suffering from no
medical ailments but from “the
lottery syndrome.”
Lawyers made opening state
ments Wednesday in a trial like
ly to last six to eight weeks. The
case involves more than two
tons of butadiene that leaked
from an OxyChem plant and
drifted over Robstown, four
miles away, on Oct. 23, 1992.
A company employee erred by
not shutting down the plant
when an electrical failure oc
curred, OxyChem lawyer Tony
'What else can we say? He goofed/'
Canales,
OxyChem lawyer
Canales said.
“What else can we say? He
goofed,” he said.
Plaintiffs’ attorney Michael
Terry said the case is not one of
an accident.
The plaintiffs claim the Oxy
Chem plant released other dan
gerous chemicals on Robstor.
besides butadiene — a mild!
hazardous chemical used!
make tires and other artificii
rubber goods.
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cials were aware of a faulty up.
derground electrical system
early
1986, bin
they neglect
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control rooP;
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plant ddwn when the eledrica
system failed, Terry said.
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gone out, resulting in there
lease of more than 4,652 pout#
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