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Page 8 ‘Tuesday, September 14,1999
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Heart attack claims inmate’s
Convict was awaiting execution for Smith County double m
HUNTSVILLE (AP) — An East
Texas man on death row since 1980
for killing a Smith County couple
died early yesterday morning in his
cell, apparently of a heart attack,
prison officials said.
James Edward Session, 42, died
alone at the Ellis Unit around 3:20
a.m., Texas Department of Crimi
nal Justice spokesperson Larry
Fitzgerald said.
“It’s not the way you expect
them to go,” Jack Skeen, the cur
rent Smith County district attor
ney, said. Skeen was not in
volved in Session’s prosecution,
but his office has fought the in
mate’s appeals.
Session, a high school dropout,
was condemned for killing Clifford
McDougal and his wife, Belle, in a
bloody robbery of their Troup,
Texas, home on Jan. 8, 1980.
Session was identified by a mor
tally wounded McDougal, who
was stabbed six times and suffered
gunshot wounds to the jaw and a
shoulder. McDougal remained con
scious long enough to scrawl Ses
sion’s name with a pencil on a
bloodstained piece of paper; Mrs.
McDougal was dead at the scene.
The suspect’s palm print also
was found on a metal cash box in
the victims’ home, located about
20 miles southeast of Tyler.
Session was 22 at the time of the
killing and had been in prison pre
viously for burglary.
Session insisted he was inno
cent, according to an Internet letter
he wrote three years ago inviting
potential pen pals to correspond
with him.
“My trial lawyer did nothing,
and a 12-year-old could have de
fended me better,” Session wrote,
adding that he was a “loving and
caring” person who wrote poems
and created "art and craft projects."
Fitzgerald said Session’s time be
hind bars had been uneventful ex
cept for a Jan. 22, 1982, attack in
which fellow death row inmate
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UT officials report rise
in minority enrollment
AUSTIN (AP) — Enrollment at the Uni
versity of Texas-Austin this fall totals
49,034, and school officials said yesterday
the freshman class includes increases in
minority students.
The total includes 37,179 undergradu
ate students; 10,475 grad
uate students, and 1,380
law students. It is a slight
increase over last fall’s
enrollment of 48,906.
UT administrators said
they are pleased with the
composition of the 7,040
entering freshmen. It
showed increases in the
numbers and percentages
of African-American, His-
"/ am delighted
with the diversity
of this year's
entering class."
— Larry Faulkner
University of Texas president
panic and Asian-American students.
According to UT, the number of new
African-American freshmen increased to
286, up 87 students or 43.7 percent;
Asian-Americans reached 1,217, up 84 or
7.4 percent; and Hispanic enrollment was
974, up 83 or 9.3 percent.
“I am delighted with the diversity of
this year’s entering class and that we
have been successful in returning to pre-
Hopwood levels for African American and
Hispanic freshmen,” Larry Faulkner, UT
president, said.
Texas officials have worked to boost mi
nority enrollment despite the 1996 federal
court ruling known as Hop-
wood, which ended consid
eration of race in college ad
missions in Texas.
Among other steps, a
state law automatically ad
mits students in the top 10
percent of Texas high school
graduating classes.
“The top 10 percent bill
has helped create the good
results we are seeing in the
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Walker, associate vice president and direc
tor of admissions, said.
UT also has increased and focused its
outreach to public school students. In ad
dition, the university has begun a scholar
ship program for those in the top 10 per
cent of their class in 49 high schools in
high-minority areas.
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A fc
Housing Authority executive helped these
sistant to former Housing Secretary
Henry Cisneros bypass a year-long
waiting list for government-subsi
dized housing, documents show.
Choco Meza, who was fired from
her housing authority job in March
in the wake of the allegations, has
said she did nothing wrong.
The Express-News used the Texas
Public Information Act to obtain
documents from an investigation into the
In a sworn statement, Meza said a sir
staff member erroneously issued a housing
to Sylvia Arce-Garcia’s son, Israel Ttevinc Hamburg
pregnant fiancee, Candale Laxson. i_i
Several housing authority employees to
that in 1998 Meza instructed them to fi: Honq Kon
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