2 - The Michigan Daily - Friday, February 26, 1999 NATION/WORLD King sentenced to death penalty AROUND THE NATION John King, accused of killing a black man, was sentenced to death by lethal injection The Washington Post JASPER, Texas - John William King, an avowed white supremacist, was sentenced to death yesterday for the racial murder of James Byrd Jr., a black man who was chained to a pickup truck in the predawn darkness and dragged on a winding stretch of pavement until his head and right arm were torn off. King, one of three men charged in the killing, was convicted of capital murder Tuesday by a jury that deliberated for just over two hours. Yesterday, the same jurors, 11 white men and women and one black man - who was elected foreman - met for three hours before reaching their decision on a penalty. The foreman, a prison guard who went to junior high school with King, passed the verdict sheet to Judge Joe Bob Golden, who looked at it, then at King. "Mr. King" the judge said, "I hearby sentence you to death by lethal injection" The crowded courtroom was hushed, unlike Tuesday, when a smattering of applause broke out among spectators after the guilty verdict was read. The defendant, a former prison inmate covered with racist tattoos, stared impassively, as he had through most of his week-long trial. "Mr. Sheriff," the judge said, "you may take him to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to await exe- cution there." Moments later King was ushered from the court- room through a side door, ending the first of three planned death-penalty trials in the murder last June 7, a crime that jolted this racially mixed city of 8,000 in the East Texas timberlands and reminded the world that backwoods lynchings are not entirely an evil of America's past. Then, as he was being led in body armor a short dis- tance across the courthouse lawn to a waiting sedan - a routine at the end of each court session - King for the first time offered a comment to the dozens of jour- nalists gathered behind a rope line nearby. It was a crude, barely audible sexual reference. "It doesn't surprise me, coming from him;' prose- cutor Guy James Gray said later at a news conference, after the sedan had left for the state prison at Huntsville. The death chamber there is by far the country's busiest. "He has no remorse for what he did," Gray said. Byrd, who was unemployed and afflicted with seizures, lived alone in a subsidized apartment in Jasper, 120 miles north of Houston. He was walking home from a family gathering after midnight when he was picked up, driven into the forest, beaten and stomped, then chained behind a truck and dragged for about three miles. No trial dates have been set for King's alleged accomplices, Shawn Allen Berry and Lawrence Russell Brewer. "I wouldn't expect him to say, 'God bless the Byrd family,"' said Mary Verrette, one of Byrd's sisters, referring to King's parting comment. "It kind of sums up the whole personality of this young man. He has no remorse, even in the face of death." King's lawyers said he developed his racist views while serving a prison term for burglary from 1995 to 1997. They said he was a victim of a racial assault in the penitentiary and acquired his tattoos there for pro- tection, hoping they would frighten would-be assailants.- ' Defense attorney Brack Jones Jr. told jurors before they began deliberating yesterday that King would not pose a serious threat to others if he were given a life term. The jury had the option of imposing that sen- tence, under which King would have been eligible for parole in 40 years. U.S. urges restraint for Kosovo foes WASHINGTON - The Clinton administration expressed concern yesterday that both sides in the Kosovo dispute will use the recess in peace talks to fortify their mil- itary positions. Officials warned Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic that airstrikes are still a possibility and urged the .Kosovo Albanian side to "show restraint or risk losing NATO support" Administration officials told congressional panels a military retrenchment is a possibility, now that both sides have gone home from the peace talks. "The threat of force remains in effect" Deputy Defense Undersecretary Walter Slocombe told the Senate Armed Services Committee. He cautioned Milosevic, in Belgrade, against using the recess to prepare a new Serb offensive against ethnic Albanians in the province. "If Belgrade were foolish enough to attack the KLA in some deluded effort o destroy the insurgency before an agreement took effect, Belgrade would meet with strong NATO military action" Slocombe said. By the same token, he added, Kosovo's independence-minded ethnic Albanian and the Kosovo Liberation Army "must show restraint or risk losing NATO'S support. Peace talks will resume in France on March 15. The talks, held in a chateau ir Rambouillet, near Paris, recessed earlier this week after 17 days of intense negoti HASH BASH Continued from Page 1 come in and try to make legislation for their own political gains." "Sen. Rogers is trying to deal with something that has nothing to do with the city of Ann Arbor," Millard said. "The University is doing everything the state wants them to do." 1Millard said although people may use marijuana at Hash Bash, the event is not a public endorsement of smoking. "We don't say whether that's right or wrong," Millard said. "I'm there forthe freedom of speech. If people are stupid enough to smoke on University property, that's their fault." But Rogers disagreed, saying his- tory has shown that Hash Bash is about promoting drugs to young peo- p'e, not an exercise of the First Amendment. ""That's not what this is. It's a sham," Rogers said. "For them to say That this is free speech is disingenu- ous." Ann Arbor Mayor Ingrid Sheldon said she understands the reasoning behind the proposal. "Sen. Hammerstrom is very con- cerned about sending mixed mes- sages to young people," Sheldon said. But Sheldon said the Legislature should not force Ann Arbor to con- form with the state laws on this issue "when the same Legislature has enabled a city to make its own rules. "We think we regulate it very nice- ly now," Sheldon said of the current penalty. Sen. Alma Wheeler Smith (D- Salem Twp.) said she opposes the bill because it takes legislative power out of the hands of the city. "The political party that insists on local control is saying that what Ann Arbor decides is not good enough," Smith said. "This is an overreach on the part of these senators. They need to get a life." LSA sophomore Amy Feder said the state should not involve itself in issues of local control. "It seems like if the state has that law, then Ann Arbor should too;" Feder said. But "I think Ann Arbor knows what's best for itself." 'U' computing sites to get new equipment COMPUTERS Continued from Page 1. Griffiths said. "We agree we are looking at areas of mutual interest so we are not just a customer and they are not just selling a product;' she said, adding that some of the program's goals include reassert projects that both organizations will develop together. LSA sophomore Susan Lee, who often uses the computers in Angell Hall, said keeping technology updated is imperative to students' success. "At the University level, you need to have the newest technology to go with changing times," Lee said. She added that with thousands of students using the resources, making things more convenient is a question of quantity, not just quality. "My main concern is that they should put in more computers;" she said. But Business junior Kumar Rao said ithe University should not be so quick to spend its money. "I think most of the computers are OK right now -- minus the ones in the (Shapiro Undergraduate Library) that are horrible and the ones in the (Michigan) Union that never work;' he said. "I don't think the are that behind (on technology) at this point ... the money could be spent on other things." About 60 percent of the computers purchased for the computing sites will be IBM compatible and 40 percent will be Macintosh, Anastasia said. The ratio of Macintosh to IBM com- patible computers .on campus has changed in the last few years, Anastasia said. Before an upgrade last winter, only 30 percent of computers at campus computing sites were IBM compatible. The proportion is now more evenly split, with 55 percent Macintosh and 45 percent IBM compatible. ITD began purchasing less Macintosh computers to provide more options to students, Anastasia said. The department is "shifting the ratio a bit to be a little more in line with what students bring in to the University," he said. IBM compatible computers "are more likely what they're familiar with." ations failed to produce a breakthrough. Link found to explain bacteria infections Researchers say they have for the first time demonstrated a direct link between bacterial infection and heart disease, confirming a suspi- cion that has been floating through the cardiology community for the better part of a decade. The proof of a link suggests that at least some of the 961,000 deaths from heart disease in the United States every year could be prevented by treatment with antibiotics or, even better, by immunization against the responsible organisms. It might also lead to new ways to identify people at the highest risk of death, experts said. In the new study, to be reported today in the journal Science, researchers from the Ontario Cancer Institute in Toronto found that injecting mice with proteins from chlamydia bacteria can produce heart disease. As many as 95 per- cent of people are exposed to chlamydia during their lives. The chlamydia protein, which sits on the bacterium's surface, is virtu- ally identical to one found -im healthy heart tissue. When the mouse's immune system gears upto attack the protein, it also damage the heart and coronary arteries. Leaders call for end to police brutality WASHINGTON - Black, Asian, Latino/a and Jewish civil rights advo- cates urged President Clinton on yester- day to add his voice to those seeking an end to police misconduct. "We need President Clinton to step up to the plate and provide leadership. We seek a meeting and concrete plans on how to deal with this problem," National Urban League President Hugh Price tod a news conference. Recent fatal shootings of young blacks by police under questionable cir- cumstances in New York, Pittsburgh and Riverside, Calif., have focused attention on police confrontations that pit minoit ties against white officers. AROUND THE WORLD pe Do you have a BACHELOR'S DEGREE? We need you! Measurement Incorporated is an educational testing company that hires hundreds of people each year to hand-score tests. Bachelor's degree in any field required. Paid training provided. Scorers are hired per project. Projects usually last 3-6 weeks. 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Roads into the mountainous area remained blocked yesterday, but maintenance ;crews worked steadily, hoping to clear them by this afternoon. Dozens of helicopters ferried food supplies into the area. Choppers from the German army and police, Switzerland and U.S. army bases in Germany reinforced pilots from the Austrian Army. Mexican case key in Drug War MEXICO CITY-It was all over in 24 hours. Luis Amezcua was checking out a used Chrysler Shadow in Guadalajara when Mexican anti-drug agents pounced. The next morning, police swooped down on his brother, Jesus, as he consulted a Cuban Santeria guru in Mexico City. The arrests of the Amezcuas were hailed as Mexico's biggest anti-drug vic- tory in years, a crushing blow to the alleged godfathers of the booming U.S. market for methamphetamines. But nine months later, the Amezcua case has turned into a dance with defeat for the Mexican government. The broth- ers have been cleared of charges in Mexico and remain in custody only because of a U.S. request to try them in San Diego. But whether they will ever face a California judge is unclear. Mexican authorities have agreed to extradite them, but the brothers' lawyer has appealed and Mexican judges in the past have upheld challenges in similar cases. The Amezcua case has emerged as a key issue in President Clinton's annual evaluation, which is expect* ed today, of other nations' coopera- tion in fighting drugs. If Mexico fails the evaluation, it could face economic sanctions. Failure to extradite teen leads to questions JERUSALEM - Israel's Supreme Court blocked the extradition yest&.i day of a U.S. teen-ager suspected in* the grisly dismemberment of an acquaintance, a move that threatened to revive a strain on U.S.-Israel rela- tions. The reluctant tones of the judges' 3- 2 decision keeping Samuel Sheinbein from returning to Maryland to stand trial reflected wider embarrassment in Israel over a blanket ban on extraditing Jews - a ban many now believe to be outdated. - Compiled from Daily wire repo: RIELIGIOUS SERVICIES AVAVAVAVA ASSEMBLY OF GOD Evangel Temple - 769-4157 2455 Washtenaw (at Stadium) Free van rides from campus Sunday Worship: 8am, 10:30am www.assemblies.org/mi/evangeltemple LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY Lord of Light Lutheran Church (ELCA) 801 S. Forest (at Hill St.) 668-7622 Sunday worship 10 a.m. student supper 5 Wednesday 7 p.m. listening for God Fridays 7 p.m. Friday nite at movies John Rollefson and Donna Simon Campus Ministers UNIVERSITY LUTHERAN CHAPEL, LCMS 1511 Washtenaw, near Hill Sunday Worship 10:30 a.m. Pastor Ed Krauss, 663-5560 RECYCLE THE DAILY.j DAILY. .PRINTING LOWEST PRICES! 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