Killer Executed VERNON — a 17-Year-Old Ver Non Boy Was Charged with Murder by Mark Harris Ters Were Stationed, Failed in a Supreme Court at 7:07 P.M
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38 from llling Cougars triumph Seniors’ show I take In Washington over Becker, 5-2 packs them In ... page 11 ... page 15 page 3 Sunny and mild; Manchester, Conn. cloudy tonight Saturday, April 23, 1983 — See page 2 Single copy: 25C Alabama uses electric chair Murder n Court lifts stay; killer executed VERNON — A 17-year-old Ver non boy was charged with murder By Mark Harris ters were stationed, failed in a Supreme Court at 7:07 p.m. that United Press International Friday in the stabbing death of severe thunderstorm. the stay granted him Thursday Shari Ann Merton, 16, of Rockville, Evans was put to death for the night by a Mobile judge had been whose body was found by police ATMORE, Ala. (UPI) — John 1977 murder of Mobile, Ala., thrown out, authorities imme Louis Evans III died in the electric w near an abandoned railroad siding pawnbroker Edward Nassar in a diately set in motion his execution. chair Friday night 90 minutes after on Friday, April 15. holdup. He was the seventit'man His head was promptly shaved to the Supreme Court lifted a stay executed since the Supreme Court receive the electrodes. Corey R. Barton of 17 Birch St., that had blocked the execution. lifted the death penalty ban in 1976, Three newsmen, the prison Holman Prison Warden J.D. Vernon, was arrested at 6:20 p.m. and the first to die in Alabama chaplain, Evans' attorney Russell White threw the switch that sent on a warrant charging him with since 1965. Canan and his friend Rick Dent, murder. He is being held at the 1,900 volts of electricity surging witnessed the execution through a through the convicted killer's body Evans was walked calmly into Vernon police station in lieu of the red-brick death chamber at glass panel from an acUoining for 30 seconds at 8:30 p.m, but $250,000 bond pending arraign 8:15 p.m. CST. He refused seda room. when doctors examined him he tion, and chose to die in prison ment Monday in Rockville Super was still alive. When the Supreme Court va 0 clothes rather than a business suit. 3 ior Court. White threw the switch again at cated Evans' stay of execution at 8:35 p.m., sending another 30- When White and deputy Warden 7:07 p.m., bis attorneys said they -A Poiice refused to say whether he Ron Jones went into Evans' could do no more and his brother second pulse into the limp body & 6 was a friend or acquaintance of strapped in the wooden chair. holding cell 25 feet from the death begged Gov. George Wallace for 1.6 Miss Merton, and would not chamber, Evans shook their hands Flame appeared on Evans' mercy. But Wallace refused to release more information. black-mask^ head and smoke and told them he felt "no malice" intercede.. eddied up from his left leg, toward them, prison spokesman By the same 7-2 vote with which The girl's body was found by according to witnesses who viewed Ron Tate reported. it refused Evans a stay late ■ i'v police near an abandoned railroad the execution on closed-circuit Evans told them he thought his Thursday, the high court dis siding off Washington Street about television from nearby Fountain prison stay "was the greatest,” missed the stay issued Thursday 13 hours after her parents reported prison. Tate said. night by U.S. District Judge her missing. The girl had appar At that point doctors re-entered Evans was strapped into the Emmett Cox in Mobile, Ala. ently been dropped off in the area the chamber and the shade was chair convicts call "Yellow Evans' was to have died at 12:01 by friends the night before her Momma" at 8:18 and two minutes drawn over the window of the a.m. CST, but Cox's stay blocked sivitov: • body was found. witness room, where the closed- later White began reading his that. However, his death warrant lit, ; , circuit camera was located. death warrant. allowd for his execution at any An autopsy showed she died of However, there was no imme Evans had two minutes to make time Friday, and authorities had stab wounds and strangulation. diate word on exactly when Evans a final statement to White, but he until 11:59 p.m. to put him to death. was pronounced dead, because the had earlier asked that his words "The legal process is at an end,” A Vernon police spokesman said telephone line between Holman not be relayed to reporters. said Canan. "There are no more ‘ the arrest "culminated an inten prisdn and Fountain, where repor- When word came from the appeals to take.” sive investigation” byliis depart ment ant the State Police's Major Heratd photo by Tarquinio Crime Squad. Miss Merton, a junior at Rock ■ ■ i-.'j; ■ Rise slated Spring ahead, fall back ville High School, was at least the That’S how you remember which way to set your clock sixth young woman in the area to in benefits when Daylight Saving Time comes around. As Sue disappear or be found slain in the - Kenneson reminds us, it's that time again. At 2 a.m. last 14 years. Vernon Police Chief Herman H. Fritz said Miss Mer , ....... WASHINGTON (UPI) - Social Sunday your clocks should be set forward an hour. ton's death was unrelated to the ^ s^ u rity checks will rise 3.5 Remember that when you wake Up Sunday morning. other unsolved cases. percent in January for 36 million & flP B recipients — a $14 increase for the ^ six months late. Shultz sent to Mideast■ w ■ ■ « The final factor determining the size of the increase was the March A ■ ■ Consumer Price Index, released ^ * A B A ■ Friday, which showed only a slight 1 I rise in inflation. The cost-of-Uvlng ■ W | adjustment is based on inflation in " January, February and March. r<Here is how monthly benefits will go up, according to the Social Urdted Press International Security Administration: . • A worker retiring at age 65 this . WASHINGTON — In an attempt year, who now gets a maxinium I? break the bottleneck in Middle $709, will get $734. negotiations, President Rea- • A retired single worker, now . announced Friday he is getting an average $411, will get sending Secretary of State George 1425, Shultz to the region to press his • A retired two-worker couple administration's peace plan, now getting an average |709 will Reagan, speaking at an im- get $733. promptu White House news cbnfer- • A niother and two children Shultz's mission will now collecting an average $912’ focus on bringing about a withdra- will get $943. ’ "'al of all foreign troops from • An aged widow or widower, Lebanon. , now collecting an average $380 Despite! the brutal tragic attack will get $393. ’ our embassy in Beirut," Rea- • A disabled worker, wife and “we're more resolved children, now collecting an aver- help achieve the age $835, will get $864. urgent and total withdrawal of all , • The average disabled worker foreign forMS from Lebanon.” ^ now collecting $439, will get $455 ’ president added he hopes an S ■ A single person on Supplemeii- agreement can be reached soon on tal Security Income, nowgettinga theremovaloftheestimated80,000 _____ maximum $284.30, wili collect fsraeli, Syrian and Palestine Lib- 1304.30 beginning in July because fo^on Organization troops in of an across-the-board $20 in- ^uanon that will provide secure crease, and will get $314 in borders and let Lebanon's govern- ja „ y 3Py ment assert its sovereignty and UP I photo • A couple on Supplemental rebuilding the shattered REAGAN ANSWERS QUESTIONS Security Income, now getting a ®®.“Jlu‘^' . sending Shultz to Mideast maximum $426.40, will collect ...JL^®*® ®''® “ ur I $456.40 beginning in July because “ ‘‘•‘fff East policy,” he said. forum in which 24 industriaiized ans in the Israeli-occupied of an across-the-board $30 in- agreement on a troop countries coordinate their eco territories, crease, and will get $472 in withdrawal in the stalled negotia- nomic relations with each other Israeli officials said Friday they January. bas prevented peace negotia and with the developing Third Were pleased by Reagan's sugges tors from getting on to the wider World, tion that the PLO should be « § • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • issues of the futureof the Palestini- His trip is due to end with a brief replaced as representative of the ans and the territories occupied by visit to Bonn, officials said. Palestinians, but Reagan's use of Insiclo Todav In discussing the Shuitic journey, the word "homeland” in referring * Reagan did not announce Shultz' Reagan insisted the Middle East to the future of the Palestinians 20 pages, 2 sertlons State Departinent negotiating process is not stalled. raised some concern among the officials said he wili leave Wa- He suggested the PLO has been Israelis. Advice ........................................ 12 shington Sunday evening for given too much weight in the "There has to be a solution to the Business........................................ IS Egypt, then travel to Israel and process and that one way to revive problem of the Palestinians,” Herald photo bvTorqiJlnlo O M sm ^ .......... 18-19 ^banon. After that, the trip is the process might be to find Reagan, said at the White House rlk” * r « ^ .......................................o open-ended, with possible stops m another representative. session with reporters. Oa noi diaturh Entertainment;: 7^8 Jordan and Syria. The trip could "Nobody elected the PLO ," he Referring to radical elements of ^ rlUI UfOlMrO Lottery................. .2 *ast as long as three weeks, they said. the PLO, Reagan said, "W hat an The refusal of PLO chairman element of that group is doi.ig Darren Lee was feeling a little hot and bothered at the opinion......................................