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Texas executes 300th prisonei
By Michael Graczyk
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Texas A&M Veteran's Association
SERVICE FLAGS DEDICATION
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Monday, March 24, 2003
Ceremony begins at 11:00 am
in the MSC Flag Room
The 5 Armed Service Flags will be dedicated in the
MSC Flag Room honoring all service members coming
from and to Texas A&M University
Speakers include Lt. Gen. John Van Alstyne,
Veteran Association President Noel Bowman and a
keynote address by Col. Craig Carter
For more information about the dedication, please refer
to our web site at http^/tamuveterans.tamu.edu
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — An
apologetic Keith Clay was exe
cuted Thursday night, becoming
the 300th inmate put to death in
Texas since the state resumed
the death penalty 20 years ago.
In a brief
statement. Clay
asked God to
“forgive me of
every single soli
tary sin I have
committed these
35 years I have
lived upon this
Earth.”
Then Clay
looked at three
members of his
victim’s family,
who were watch
ing through
I know you have
suffered a great loss
and I am truly, truly
sorry. There is not a
day that I have not
prayed for you.
His mother, Cynthia Smith,
smiled and flashed two thumbs
up to him.
He began praying softly to
himself as the drugs began tak
ing effect. He gasped three
times. His eyes briefly widened
and rolled back before his eyes
closed. Eight minutes later at
6:23 p.m., he was pronounced
dead.
Clay’s execu
tion, the 1 Ith this
year in the
nation’s most
active execution
state, came a
week after anoth
er inmate, Delma
Banks, avoided
lethal injection
and the notoriety
of No. 300 when
he won a last-
minute reprieve
from the U.S.
— Keith Clay
executed inmate
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nearby window, and asked them
for forgiveness. “I know you
have suffered a great loss and I
am truly, truly sorry. ...There is
not a day that I have not prayed
for you,” he said.
Clay then turned to his moth
er, watching through an adjacent
window. He told her he loved
her and said “The Lord is my
shepherd. Let everyone know
that I love them. This is not
goodbye. I will see you later.”
Supreme Court.
Clay, 35. was condemned for
fatally shooting a convenience
store clerk during a 1994 rob
bery in Baytown, just east of
Houston. The Supreme Court
last week refused to review his
case and the state parole board
refused to consider a clemency
petition because it was filed 15
days too late.
“Whatever God’s will is for
my life I’m going to accept,”
Clay said from death row last
week. “I refer to my faith. Lord
Jesus, he was wrongly convicted
for something he didn’t do and
paid the price.”
Clay’s injection keeps Texas
on a pace to surpass the record
40 lethal injections carried out
in 2000. Another is scheduled
for next week and three more
are scheduled for April.
Texas accounts for more than
one-third of the now 839 execu
tions in the United States since
1976 when the death penalty
resumed under a Supreme Court
ruling. Virginia is second with
87.
It took nearly 13 years for
Texas to reach 100 executions,
four years get to No. 200 and
now, as the appeals process has
become more streamlined, just
over three to reach the 300th.
Clay’s case failed to generate
the kind of attention paid last
week to Banks, who contended
he was wrongly convicted of a
1980 slaying near Texarkana.
Banks’ appeals were bolstered
by the backing of three former
federal judges, including former
FBI director William Sessions.
Clay, an acknowledged for
mer drug dealer who authorities
said also was involved in a triple
slaying in 1993, attracted no
similar support.
Clay was convicted of killing
Killing machine
More inmates have been
executed in Texas thaninani
other state. Thursday. KeithClaj
became the state's 300th inmii
to die since reinstating thefe
penalty in 1982.
Volume 109
U.S. executions since 1
With 300 dead, -
36 percent of all
U.S. executions
take place in
Texas.
The next closest
state is Virginia
with 87
executions or 10
percent of the
national total.
There have been 836
executions since the
1976 Supreme Court
ruled to resume
capital punishment.
SOURCE National Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty
store clerk Melathethii li
Varughese, who came toi
United States from Indiaayi
earlier, in a $2,000 robber).
“I’m not happy to see son
one put to death, but I tall
the trial was a fair trial, tie i
represented by good coue
and it was a horrible crim
said Marie Munier, the Hut
County district attorney
prosecuted Clay.
“I think it’s justice,” shesi
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doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she
said. “It’s the practice and attitude that
makes you good, not if you’re a boy or a
girl.”
Enders said the criticism from competi
tors just pushes her harder to beat them.
Michael Sambursky, Enders’ boyfriend,
said it’s odd having a professional girl
friend in a male-dominated sport.
“It’s pretty weird,” he said, “but I think
it’s good.”
Sambursky, a Cypress Springs High
School senior, said his girlfriend travels at
high speeds, but it doesn’t concern him.
“Right now. I’m not worried about
Erica,” he said. “But I may get a little more
worried when she gets into faster speeds at
the Top Fuel level.”
Enders said her mom worried at first,
but always supported her.
"When I first started, my mom could
only watch me through her video camera
lens,” Enders said. “1 think it may scare her
that soon I will be racing at faster speeds.”
Top Fuel competitors exceed 330 mph
on a quarter-mile drag. Enders said she
always feels safe at any speed.
Both of Enders’ cars have won awards
for being well engineered. She wears a
five-layer lire suit, helmet, gloves, arm
restraints and special shoes when she races.
“We just pray every time we get on the
track,” Enders said.
Enders said now that she’s in college,
balancing her racing career with school,
family and friends is harder than before.
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hut I leave on the weekends to race ori
my boyfriend,” she said. “It’s a lothardti
than I thought it would be, but I’m gettii!
the hang of it.”
Enders said her father gave her an
incentive to make good grades in high
school, and that it’s helped to push tel
in college. In high school, Enders’father
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“It was a lot of pressure, but it was
worth it,’’ she said. “My dad’s my hero,:
1 want to be like him.”
Enders doesn't want to take time off
from college to race. She plans togrado;
in 2006 to manage Enders Racing, LLC
while being one of the team’s profession
drivers. For more information about
Enders, visit www.enders.com.
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By Pam Easton
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOUSTON — U.S. Coast
Guard boats are patrolling the
Houston Ship Channel around
the clock, checking for anything
and everything which might
look out of place.
During a Thursday morning
patrol, it was John Stinson’s new
recreational boat that didn’t fit
among the large barges and tugs
which travel the channel. More
than 6,000 vessels transverse the
narrow channel annually.
“This is our first trip out,”
Stinson told Coast Guardsman
Josh Reagan, who pulled the
small white boat over by sound
ing a siren. “We’re just cruising
around.”
Reagan quickly told Stinson
he was in a secure area and would
have to be escorted out. Reagan
took Stinson’s license and regis
tration and led the white-haired
boater out away from the channel,
which is lined by petrochemical
plants. Once removed from the
secure area, Stinson’s documents
letter of warning
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were returned and he fi
instructed about the limits if
where he could travel.
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said as his license was retuitf
and he wa§ sent on his way.
“Most of the people wh
around here know about the sett
rity zones,” Coast Guard
Cmdr. Todd Hall said. “Evef
now and then you get someo*
with a new boat who does«
know about them.”
Besides the use of boats at
helicopters, the Coast Guard d
keep an eye on vessels usins
series of cameras, which line!
25-mile channel.
Hall said about 19 strategic
ly placed cameras are
towers along the waterway.
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and watch them all the wayu|
ship channel,” Hall said of#
sels traveling the passage,
any given time we know
these people are and
are doing.”
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patrols during which guards#’
visit sites along the shore ton#
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