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Thursday
Crooked Path
— Alternative.
$3.
Fitzwilly’s
over — Texas blues.
9:30 p.m.
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open at 8 p.m.;«
$6.
The Tap
ie — Cover band
9:30 p.m. and then
$5.
iird Floor Cantina
kbirds — Rock. Do
!:30 p.m. and theco
$5.
Friday
Cow Hop
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how starts at 9:30 p.
Crooked Path
Vs Fortune — Cc>.
$3.
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Jubi Nair, a freshman general studies major, grabs a free Coke from Rich Renner by Fish Pond
Wednesday. The free Cokes were given out to students in order to promote Coca-Cola for the up
coming spring break holiday.
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hand of jury
FORT WORT11 (AP) — The same
jury that took just 20 minutes to convict
afonner grocery store worker in the tor
ture and slaying of a developmental ly
impaired woman now will determine if
he should spend the rest of his life in
prison or receive a death sentence.
Testimony in the sentencing phase
for Michael Wayne 1 lall’s capital mur
der trial ended this morning v\ ith de
fense lawyers trying to convince the
jury Hall is mentally retarded and
should he spared the death penalty.
Defense attorneys during three days
ofpresentations have portrayed I kill. 20,
as near mental retardation and not de
serving to die. They say mental defi
ciencies led to Hall being susceptible to
influence by people like his codefendant.
That cfe/acferization, however,
contradicts Hall’s taped confession af
ter he and Robert Neville Jr. were ar
rested in March 1998 for the slaying of
a woman with whom both had worked
at an Arlington grocery store.
In separate television interviews.
Hall and Neville admitted to torturing
and killing Amy Robinson of Arling
ton. The men described using the girl as
“target practice,” shooting her with ar
rows, a pellet gun and a gun.
Hall seemed articulate and clear
headed as he described how he and
Neville, now 25, lured Robinson into
their car and took her to a remote field
north of Arlington.
The prosecution, however, argued
Hall knew when he was doing and un
derstood the consequences of his ac
tions when he and codefendant Robert
Neville Jr. killed Amy Robinson, 19.
Robinson was shot several times
h a pellet gun and a crossbow, but
the injuries that killed heron Feb. 15,
jearne from a .22-caliber rifle, au
thorities say.
Neville was convicted in 1998 and
has been sentenced to die. Neville’s ex
ecution had been scheduled for April
27. But last week he received a stay of
execution to pursue an appeal that
could take at least two years.
Family pleas for life
62-year-old woman to die by injection
HUNTSVILLE, (AP) —The fate of
a 62-year-old woman on death row now
rests w ith Gov. Cieorge W, Bush, a death
penalty supporter who has permitted
119 executions since taking office live
years ago.
The state parole board Tuesday re
fused to halt the planned execution of
Betty Lou Beets for the shooting death
of her husband, a Dallas tire captain.
Since the parole
board did not rec
ommend that
Beets’ sentence be
commuted, Bush’s
only option under
Texas law is to
grant a one-time,
30-day stay of exe
cution. Beets is to
die by injection
Thursday.
She would be
only the second
woman executed in
Texas since the Civ
il War and the
fourth in the nation
since the Supreme
Court allowed capi
tal punishment to
resume in 1976.
Death penalty
opponents have
said cases like
Beets’ are a test of
Bush’s “compas
sionate conser
vatism.” Since Bush took office in
1995, he has spared only one prisoner,
citing flimsy evidence.
Bush, who is seeking the Republican
presidential nomination, was campaign
ing in Michigan on Tuesday. A spokes
woman has said he would not make a de
cision in the Beets case until all legal
action was over.
The fairness of the death penalty has
received renewed attention since Gov.
George Ryan of Illinois suspended exe
cutions until the state’s death penalty
procedures are examined. Thirteen in
mates have been released from death row
in that state since 1987.
Beets was convicted of murder for
the 1983 shooting death of Jimmy Don
Beets, her fifth husband, in wliat pros
ecutors said was a scheme to collect
his life insurance and pension. She
also was convicted of shooting and
wounding husband
No. 2, and charged
— but never tried
in the 1981
shooting death of
her fourth husband.
Her lawyer, Joe
Margulies, said that
while there wasn’t
evidence of physical
abuse by Jimmy
Don Beets, there
was severe “emo
tional torment” in
their relationship.
“All my mom
ma’s life, she’s been
abused,” Beets’
daughter Faye Lane
told the parole board
Tuesday. “I’ve seen
it with my own eyes.
And 1 know that if
the jury heard the
truth about my mom
ma, she only could
have done some
thing like this if
she’d been very scared or threatened.”
The last woman executed in Texas
was Karla Faye Tucker in 1998. She was
put to death in the same chamber in
Huntsville after being convicted of
killing two people with a pickax in 1983.
Texas authorities are already prepar
ing to execute Cornelius Goss tonight.
He was convicted for the bludgeoning
death of 66-year-old Carl Leevy during
a house burglary in Dallas almost 13
years ago.
“A// my momma's
life, she's been
abused... I've seen
it with my own
eyes. And I know
that if the jury
heard the truth
about my momma,
she only could have
done something
like this if she'd
been very scared or
threatened.”
— Faye Lane
death row inmate's daughter
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