Image provided by: Texas A&M University
About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (May 5, 2000)
Friday, Ma»5 lurdei STATE/ NATION iday. May 5,2000 THE BATTALION Page 9 News in Brief e every day,” he said, "Ithot .... It's hard in our society;, iolentlyas they put their via that he’s put to death.” the electric chair, OldSpt i better show.” th condemned Texas inniat an this year and the first oh month. Two more prisoner d Jackson and a compar ed an alarm at an eastAii a both were sent following nd wound up on the Univet coring student from Terrell teat night from a building ve some notes when shew thdraw money from herk J in her car and driven non i of Williamson County. Sk J with a .25-caliber pistol! ,ustin street vendor. aplain rxordsm ) the report, while a volii haplain placed his handout risoner’s forehead. The jail preacher was “pn tg very loudly, stating fork o get out of the inmate’s k nd heart,” wrote sheriff 'urtis 1 lickey. “He shouted this seia imes, then started speakiii anguage that was unknown ne.” wrote Hickey. The volunteer chaplain, ording to another report,p idically shouted in “unkm 1 ' ongues.” Full-time jail chaplainA1 ■'aries was holding the inma land and had his head bow ipparently in prayer, accoti o I lickey’s report. A shift commander at ail's Green Bay unit,loci icar Interstate 35 W and Lot 12, wrote in a reporttlats valked in on the ceremony “I did not stop this per nance because 1 am not fain vith this type of process and rot know what the moral oris amillcations might be fori® upting such a procedure,”#' M. Gayle Gray. The lieutenant confrt •aries, a paid chaplain wi Restorative Justice Cha| liter the ceremony. “I ti hat what 1 had observed ally unacceptable; it appeared ie an exorcism. Supreme Court overturns penalty SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The date Supreme Court Thursday overturned the death sentence of Oregon’s worst serial killer, ordering a new sentencing hear- ng for Dayton Leroy Rogers, who was convicted in 1989 of murdering six prostitutes. The trial court erred by not Bl owing the sentencing jury to consider the option of life with out chance of parole, the state Supreme Court ruled. The trial court also failed to allow a psy chologist to testify about possi ble causes of Rogers’ brain damage, the high court said. In 1989, a Clackamas Coun ty jury convicted him of aggra vated murder and sentenced him to die for murdering six pros titutes and dumping their bodies in a wooded area. The body of a seventh, unidentified woman was found with the others. Rogers was not charged with her death, but his attorneys admit ted in court that he killed her. Boy describes mother’s murder DALLAS (AP) — The 7-year- old son of a slain University Park woman testified Wednesday about the gruesome murder of his mother with a lamp cord and scissors, used by his father to slash her throat. The son of Patrick Timothy Richardson and Mary Williams Richardson testified via a live video feed from the chambers of state District Judge Henry Wade Jr. Richardson, 40, pleaded guilty Tuesday to the murder of his 35-year-old wife at their home in an upscale Dallas sub urb. On Tuesday, after his plea, jurors listened to the 911 tape of a daughter’s call for help as her mother was being killed. Richardson, who had been free on $1 million bond, was re arrested April 24 while trying to make arrangements to leave the country. Kent State observes shooting anniversary KENT, Ohio (AP) —As thousands of people watehed, a bell tolled on the Kent State University campus Thursday at 12:24 p.m., marking the exact moment National Guardsmen opened fire 30 years ago on antiwar protesters. The Victory Bell sounded 15 times: once for each of the four students killed and nine wounded at Kent State and once each for the two students killed at Jackson State University in Mississip pi 10 days later. The shootings on May 4, 1970, stunned the na- tion and galva nized the anti war movement. The 30th an niversary brought the nine survivors back to the campus for the first time in those three decades. “We don't know why this happened to us. We don’t know who said, ‘Shoot.’ We don’t know when they said it or why,” said Joseph Lewis, a student who was shot, now 48 and living in Oregon. The anniversary also included a can dlelight march that began ftn the an niversary’s eve and continued with an overnight vigil at the parking lot where Allison Krause, Sandy Scheuer, Jeffery Miller and William Schroeder were killed. The Kent State shootings happened after days of student protests against the Vietnam War and the burning of the campus Army ROTC building. The National Guard was sent in to quell the disturbances. Guardsmen fired at least 61 £hots in a 13-second burst, hitting protesters, bystanders and students walking to class at a distance. “I didn't do anything wrorig. People who did something wrong were individuals of the Ohio National Guard who shot and killed them and shot and wound ed us deliberately” — josesph Lewis Kent State University former student But Lewis said Guardsmen shot at him for no reason. “I didn’t do anything wrong. People who did something wrong were individ uals of the Ohio National Guard who shot and killed them and shot and wounded us deliberately,” Lewis said. The survivors continued to blame the shooting on then-Gov. James Rhodes, who ordered the troops on campus. “You have to remember Rhodes vir tually beat on the table, saying he was go ing to keep this university open and all the universities in Ohio,” said Dean Kahler, a history and gov ernment teacher in Nelsonville, Ohio, paralyzed from the waist down because of the shooting. Rhodes has expressed re gret over the shootings but maintains that he had to send troops to Kent State. “It was a terrible thing,” Rhodes, now 90, told The Columbus Dispatch. “But no one plans a train wreck, ei ther. It just happened. And life goes on.” Pennsylvania death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal gave a taped 3 1/2-minute speech during the cere monies, speaking about what he called government-backed killings in war, during civil rights protests and at prisons. “Kent State teaches that a so-called free society will slaughter students who are exercising their alleged constitu tional right of demonstrating for peace and give awards to the killers and do so with impunity,” said Abu-Jamal, who has claimed he was falsely convicted in the 1991 slaying of a Philadelphia po lice officer. ICY TESTS Education i Fri 9-5 • Sat 8-12 ollege Can Hell Rio Grande Valley get a head start G w to take summer larlingen. ses begin June 7 s are available. 100-852-8784 tstc.edu -*r -*r ~*r r*r -«r It’s Time To Move Onward & Upward! (To HOUSTON?) If Houston is in your future, AIMCO has the Apartment Home For You. We’re everywhere you want to be... ...with beautiful locations to choose from throughout greater Houston and outlying areas including... Galleria Area Galveston Clear Lake Area Lake Jackson/Clute Tomball The Woodlands Baytown Katy Copperfield College Station For $100 FREE RENT* and information on the Location of Your Choice. Call Sherri at (713) 781-1343! *Minimum free rent. Specials may vary per property. EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY For AIMCO Communities Nationwide Vtsit www.aimco.com I 41 t SVmfiOL 0 4: sUP4lCm4)(U 1 wm ' jin it>ii wtwm A £ VIZfl*CO»<iO 2000 texas a&m visualization sciences student show may 5 & 6, 2000 • rudder theater demos 5:30 • showtime 7:30 free admission TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY WATCH by SEIKO Someday all watdies will be made this way. A Seiko quartz timepiece officially licensed by the University. Featuring a richly detailed three dimensional re-creation of the University seal on the 14kt gold-finished dial. Electronic quartz movement quaranteed accurate to within fifteen seconds per month. Full three year Seiko warranty. All Gold 2-Tone $285.00 $265.00 Leather Strap $200.00 DOUGLAS JEWELRY 1667-B TEXAS AVE. COLLEGE STATION, TX 77840 Class of ‘75 Mail Orders ’Welcome 1-409-693-0677 IIIIN’I FORGET TftlR FAVORITE GRAD! AMSStlCAN iAGLS OUTFITTlStS COACH HOUSE CAROS A eiFTS IXPUSSS 0AP KITA'S HALLMARK LIRtilR NSW YORK YHS LIMITED SCRIPTURE HAVEN STRUCTURE THINGS REMEMBERED WICKS 'N STICKS The (Hft Cert ificate Mace Dilliinl’s, Fnky s. .jCPenntA Sears. The food Court & Over 100 Specialty Stores. .Texas 6 Bvpass m Highway Ml College Station * Customer Service 764-0777 Develops, Owned and Managed oy CBL & ASSOCIATES PROPER! £S. INC. {NYSUCBl}