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"As I've said since the very first thing, I am innocent of this crime," he said. "And God knows I'm innocent, and the poor people that was cent. And when I get to heav en, I'll be meeting you and we'll all talk." Joiner, 50, said he felt sor ry for the family of the vic tims, but that someday the real killer would be caught and another execution would have to take place. "If it takes my death to make them feel happy, then I will bless them. I don't have hard feelings toward anyone because the Lord feels that it is my time to come home to him," he said. The lethal drugs were ad ministered at 6:11 p.m. Joiner was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m. While being injected, he mouthed "I love you" to someone. Then he gasped, coughed and closed his eyes. to 25 the number of con demned inmates put to death in Texas this year. One more execution is set for later this month and at least six are scheduled for August. id If it takes my death to make them happy, then I will bless them.” - Orien Cecil Joiner Death-row inmate Joiner had called police the week before Christmas 1986 to tell them he discovered the bloody bodies of waitresses Carole Huckabee, 26, and Eva ing two men flee the women's apartment and escape over a backyard fence. Authorities, however, de termined it was Joiner who was responsible for the carnage. Both victims were bound with duct tape. DeForest was stabbed 41 times, her throat was cut and the broken knife blade was left sticking out of her chest. Huckabee, her roommate, had her face and neck slashed plus four stab wounds to her chest. Both were raped during or after the fatal attacks. Prosecutors produced a witness, a neighbor, who testi fied he saw Joiner near the vic tims' apartment with blood on his shirt and dripping from his hand. Tests of blood stains on blood types of both worn® "The state doesn't have) prove motive, but obviou- the sexual aspect looms k; in that regard," formerLt 1 : bock County District Attorn; Travis Ware, who prosecute Joiner, said this week."] sumably they were objects his fancy." Joiner, in a recent row interview, said he spot ted the bloody bodies wfe he looked through a windot put his fist through the wit dow to get the door ope: then called police. He said blood on shoes, which prosecutoi used against him athistriil got there when he and a lice officer walked throui the apartment. FBI uses ‘Carnivore’ for snooping Critics attack email interception program News in Brief Thursday, July 13 Court lifts order from Lufkin schools WASHINGTON (AP) —Civil liber ties and privacy groups are railing against a new system designed to allow law enforcement agents to intercept and analyze huge amounts of e-mail in con nection with an investigation. The system, called "Carnivore," was first hinted at on April 6 in testi mony to a House subcommittee. Now the FBI has it in use. When Carnivore is placed at an In ternet service provider, it scans all in coming and outgoing e-mails for messages associated with the target of a criminal probe. In a letter addressed to two mem bers of the House subcommittee that deals with Fourth Amendment search- and-seizure issues, the American Civil Liberties Union argued that the system breaches the Internet provider's rights and the rights of all its customers by reading both sender and recipient ad dresses, as well as subject lines of emails, to decide whether to make a copy of the entire message. Further, while the system is plugged into the Internet provider's systems, it is controlled solely by the law enforce ment agency. In a traditional wiretap, the tap is p)hysically placed and main tained by the telephone company. "Carnivore is roughly equivalent to a wiretap capable of accessing the con tents of the conversations of all of the phone company's customers, with the 'assurance' that the FBI will record only conversations of the specified tar get," read the letter. "This 'trust us, we are the government' approach is the antithesis of the procedures required under our wiretapping laws." Barry Steinhardt, associate director of the ACLU, said citizens shouldn't trust that such a sweeping data-tap dd: Taw enforce ment should be prohibited from installing any de vice that allows them to intercept communications from persons other than the target” —Barry Steinhardt Associate director of ACLU will only be used against criminal sus pects. And even then, he said, the data mined by Carnivore, particularly sub ject lines, are already intrusive. "Law enforcement should be pro hibited from installing any device that allows them to intercept com munications from persons other than the target," Steinhardt said in an in terview. "When conducting these kinds of investigations, the informa tion should be restricted to only ad dressing information." A spokesperson for Rep. Charles T. Canady, R-Fla., who heads the House Judiciary subcommittee on the Consti tution, said the congressman had no comment on the letter. In testimony to Canady's subcom mittee, Robert Corn-Revere, a lawyer at the Hogan & Hartson law firm in Washington, said he represented an Internet provider that refused to in stall the Carnivore system. The provider was placed in an "awkward position," Corn-Revere said, because the company feared suits from cus tomers unhappy with the govern ment looking into all the email. "It was acknowledged (by the gov ernment) that Carnivore would enable remote access to the ISP's network and would be under the exclusive control of government agents," Com-Revere said. Corn-Revere told the committee that current law is insufficient to deal with Carnivore's potential and that the Internet provider lost its court battle in part because of the Internet's connection to telephone lines, and that the law was stretched to cover the Internet as well. LUFKIN. Texas (AP) - Hie Lufkin school district has been re leased from a 30-year desegfe- gation order after a federal judge Tuesday approved an agreement between the school system the U.S. Justice Department. “The court order, after 30 years, has finally been lifted,” said Superintendent David Sharpina story for Wednesday's editiono: The Lufkin Daily News. The decision by U.S. District Judge John Hannah ends! decades that saw the district’s decisions monitored byfedera’ officials. 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