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HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Convicted
killer Richard Wayne Smith was executed
Ttiesday evening for the 1992 robbery and
slaying of a schoolteacher moonlighting as a
store clerk.
Smith, 43, dropped all appeals to his convic
tion for the Baytown murder of Karen Birky, al
lowing the state to execute him instead of wait
ing to die from advancing hepatitis C.
When a warden asked whether he had a fi
nal statement. Smith said, “No, sir.” With a tear
stain glistening under his right eye. Smith licked
his lips, closed his eyes and exhaled twice be
fore dying.
Smith was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m.,
eight minutes after the flow of lethal drugs be
gan.
He was the 25th convicted killer put to death
in Texas this year and the fourth this month.
Defense attorney Guy Womack said Smith
had not wavered from his decision late last year
to die. Smith had used a wheelchair since May
because of his failing liver.
“When I tried to dissuade him from dropping
his appeals he told me, ‘Guy, you don’t under
stand that I’ll be much happier dead and not
suffering. If I win the appeal, what does that
mean?”’ Womack said.
“You don't understand
that I’ll be much happier
dead and not suffering.”
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Smith declined to be interviewed by Asso
ciated Press.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The spe
cial counsel investigating a possi
ble Waco cover-up is seeking to
talk to lawyers suing the govern
ment on behalf of the deadly
siege’s survivors while Senate Re
publicans sought yesterday to ex
pand their inquiry to other Justice
Department controversies.
Moving to resolve an impasse
over the scope and leadership of
the Senate’s proposed Waco inves
tigation, Republicans suggested
creation of a five-member biparti
san task force to investigate
“whether or not the Justice De
partment is serving the American
people” in its handling of contro
versies from Waco to Chinese nu
clear espionage, said Senate Judi
ciary Committee Chairman Orrin
Hatch, R-Utah.
The task force would move for
ward only if Senate Democratic
Leader Tom Daschle and the Judi
ciary Committee’s top Democrat,
Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont,
agree by Thursday, Hatch said. Ab
sent their support, the proceedings
would take place in the Judiciary
Committee.
While Daschle and Leahy did
not nix the GOP plan outright,
Leahy expressed concern over the
scope and likely price tag of such
proceedings.
“Many would treat this as a way
of getting at (Attorney General]
Janet Reno rather than who in the
FBI withheld information” during
earlier Waco investigations, Leahy
told reporters after the private
meeting in Senate Majority Leader
TYent Lott’s office.
Danforth, who took a personal
tour Monday of the Texas site
where the 1993 standoff occurred,
wants his staff to meet within the
next two weeks with lawyers press
ing a wrongful-death lawsuit
against the government on behalf
of surviving Davidians and rela-
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In a letter to the lawyers Mon
day, obtained by Associated Press,
Danforth wrote: "The purpose of
the meeting would be to obtain in
formation from you on any issues
relevant to my investigation.”
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The wrongful-death lawsuit,
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more time to produce the evi
dence he has demanded. A new
court date has not been set.
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