Georgia executes
first black
From the Associated Press
A convicted murderer who buried his
victim alive was executed in Georgia
early yesterday after refusing a final
statement or prayer, while Florida won
permisson to carry out one execution
Friday and asked the U.S. Supreme
Court to allow a second to proceed.
Ivon Stanley became the 21st person
executed in the nation since the
Supreme Court restored the death
penalty in 1976 and the first black man
executed in Georgia since 1963.
IN FLORIDA, David Washington and
Jimmy Smith, who killed a total of five
people, had been scheduled to die
yesterday in the nation's first double
execution in 19 years. But they won 24-
hour delays on Wednesday while the
11th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in Atlanta
considered their cases.
Washington's bid for a stay was
rejected yesterday, and prison officials
said he would be executed in the elec-
tric chair at 7 a.m. today.
The Atlanta court granted Smith a
stay, but Florida's attorney general
immediately appealed that to the U.S.
Supreme Court.
DEATH WARRANTS for both men
expire at noon today.
Despite pleas for clemency from civil
rights leaders and a last-minute appeal
to the U.S. Supreme Court, Stanley was
put to death at Jackson, Ga., for the
since '63
1976 robbery-killing of an insurance
collector who was beaten, shot and
buried alive.
His attorneys and friends had attem-
pted to depict him as a man of below-
normal intelligence who was led into
the killing by co-defendant Joseph
Thomas. Thomas also faces the death
penalty and is imprisoned at the
Georgia Diagnostic and Classification
Center, where the execution took place.
Stanley, 28, was ushered into the
execution chamber at 12:07 a.m., a
half-hour after six justices of the
Supreme Court refused to stay the sen-
tence.
HE WALKED unassisted and without
hesitation to the electric chair and wat-
ched closely as guards strapped him in.
He looked once at Warden Ralph Kemp
and once toward the 11 witnesses
separated from him by a windowed
partition.
He never spoke. Asked by Kemp if he
had a final statement, Stanley shook his
head. Asked if he wished to have a
prayer said, he again shook his head.
Three hidden volunteers pressed but-
tons that sent more than 2,000 volts of
electricity through Stanley. His body
arched violently and his fists clenched
before the current was shut off two
minutes later.
Washington, 34, was under his third
death warrant for a 1976 crime spree
that claimed three lives in Miami.
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proposal that it cancel the plant if an
audit due to the PSC by Jan. 15, 1985
shows the cost of finishing one unit
exceeds $4.45 billion. The company has
most recently estimated that finishing
one unit would cost $3.95 billion. The
cost is further inflated to $4.12 billion
when adding other related costs.
Among the outstanding areas to be.
decided is the company's request for an
immediate rate hike, not including
Midland costs. Falahee said the firm
needs $160 million, while the PSC staff
has recommended $141 million.
"We've gone along with basically all
ABATE came in with," Falahee said.
ABATE presented its plan to the
utility's board of directors Wednesday
morning, but after a 2 -hour board
meeting Consumers Chairman John
Selby said the ABATE plan had been
rejected and set today as the deadline
for reaching a settlement.
Tracy Dobson, chairperson of the
Michigan Citizens Lobby said
Wednesday her organization would
oppose any plan calling for large rate
increases. "We fear greatly that if we
have those kinds of rate increases that
some businesses may close, others may
relocate, and others may choose not to
come to Michigan because the energy
costs are too high," she said.
If the power company decides now to
give up on the project, officials said
they will go to the state's Public Service
Commission in an attempt to recover
the $3.6 million it has already invested
in the plant through rate increases. But
Dobson said her group will continue a
petition drive to get a measure on the
1986 ballot requiring voter approval of
rate increases.
Anderson said Wednesday the
attorney general's office would oppose
any rate hike designed to recover the
costs if the plant is abandoned now.
"The company constructed this on its
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any voice in the matter by the
customers," he said.
- "If the company eventually goes into
bankrupty it will be because the
company spent $4 billion on the Midland
plant and then found it couldn't raise
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Wednesday. Company officials say
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