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THE BATTALION
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haplain placed his handout
risoner’s forehead.
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'urtis 1 lickey.
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imes, then started speakiii
anguage that was unknown
ne.” wrote Hickey.
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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
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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.
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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.
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