6—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Aug. 26, 1993 Victim testifies to . ............„... Death row ,•,... ~,,,,.:. . inmate said ..„ ~,......,„ ..„.:::. • . ~.,, .. .„.., .::.:..,:,:.,„,.,... .. 'madness' of L.A. , .•.,....... .. •,,••••. .. ~ .„ . ......,.. . • ~, :.,.... .•..,t - . ...„.., •t, , ....,::.,,,..„,,,,. his death ~ .. . ........... ~.„....„,..;„.;:.„,,, - . „,. ~ ,4,. ... . ~, .. • , • - -.... . , ~ 44:,.. ' • ' • ' , I' . .• Whig: i ~ .....,..... ..., . , . beatings and riots ...„. . .... 4 ., . „,... ~•.,..,,,,:,,,,„:„.„:. .. ~,..• . . . „:,:„..-..,.:„...,:-;:,-. .:..::: -.....;,..,..'.;.,. ~,-:....----: was justice .. ......,.. •. ...... ..... ~:.: :. •,.......,.....„ • • „.,. ..,.. ~,, .„„.„.,.....,. ~.• .. ..,.,, . . ~. .....,..., „..... . . Trucker does not remember beating; ,:•,.. , -. 7 , ..,„:.,. , •••••••:• , ,i:.4. .!.:'• . • „ ~,,.. .., ,`” - . .. .::• ..& ~ . . . ~ ,' • • ii, . ••'• • • • • By RON WORD • . f.'". ,p.. prosecutors' videotape visualizes it ~ 4 ,0 e .,, ..., 4 ,- , ~.., „ ._... ~,: Associated Press Writer :, '' ) -.'...'$ „s ,4 • , ~. Reginald Denny told 4,..: ,t- . , -,- - . : 1:4?*--- / ':' STARKE, Fla. —He said he • „ ,:' 4 • Y ° ' "•:,•::;?": - believed in capital punishment and '.' ' : . -'e -' ' + I a district attorney he 1.. . asked "that justice now be served." AP Laser '• to ' ''. 1 •* ''. ',-- ' When it was time, Michael Alan Michael Durocher remembers the window ..,. . - - - -_ - ~,. . • • ~ ,• , :,. . Durocher was calm as he was seated rt, •;':',-.,:'. ....::.••• si of .his truck being ....•.-",....--, -':- f •; ,, e - • - ":••••,.: . in Florida's electric chair. broken but not being ... . f:. .... He had already thanked the Goin g against his wishes, state-paid beaten or attacked. -•,. ..-. - -., - ... ' ~ governor for not intervening. attorneys had filed appeals right up v; . ~ . . .: :. tt The five time killer had fought to Tuesday night. .. , ,411111.)4::. . . ..,,,.,. ~ . efforts to block his execution. But Durocher frequently wrote to By LINDA DEUTSCH , ..,., . ...„ ...„..... •„.:. ...,.:::::, _ . K : . . . .. i '. opponents of capital punishment said Gov. Lawton Chiles expressing his AP Special Correspondent i . • / •:•• ' • :.•, , :g - ',',.' • • • ..••• ~, ' '- • .., :.•1 ,s he should not have been allowed to wish to die and his opposition to ~.„.„ . .1 --M .. ." ;- , : express his desire to die and then lengthy appeals. . t ..< LOS ANGELES The sound of ''', _ ...!-"...-"..:.::: ' -.':.• ... . '''••••• -.' •, have courts approve it. "When I just decided, nearly four , : shattering glass was the last thing • i Pk: : : , .: : • c ; . ' . .. . ... 1. ~ "What if he had said he wanted to years ago, that death would be better „ Reginald Denny remembered before ~.,...: . l".1,!;'. live?" said Susan Cary, a death than sitting in prison for the rest of . he was attacked at the flashpoint of t:ki : , ,int -*' , ', . , irk penalty opponent and Gainesville my life, I had assumed that I need the Los Angeles riots, the trucker .:;'; ,, Mii;Y: ...... - ._,.. .:„.„„,. lawyer. not do anything, just sit back and wait ....,..,...,... 4,1, .... testified yesterday. .:•::.:-::::''' Asked if Durocher was commit- for `it' to happen," Durocher wrote "My right window broke, which •" , : ,, ;;w'P . : . •":',. ' ting suicide by trying to be exe- in April. AP Laser Photo was quite startling, an incredible AP Laser Photo cuted, she replied: "Absolutely. He In an earlier note, Durocher told sound," Denny said at the trial of two Reginald Denny - was trying this for a long time." He the governor that he was a "believer men accused in the beating tele- Cooling down had attempted suicide several times. in capital punishment." vised live via news helicopter last Durocher, 33, was executed at dawn In May, he thanked Chiles after year. But Denny said he didn't pedestrians with his loaded With temperatures blasting into the 90s, Chester Washington and yesterday, 2 1 / 2 years after pleading his first death warrant was signed. remember anything after turning to 80,000 pound gravel truck. "It was Bassam McFerrin, 11, cool off in the spray of an open fire hydrant. guilty to the slayings of his baby son, Durocher's mother, Ada, who look at the broken window. just total madness," he said. In Milwaukee, where the two played, Tuesday was hot and yes- his girlfriend and her young daughter. earlier said she loved her son and Damian Williams, 20, and Henry Denny said he was trying to move terday temperatures continued to soar in the upper 80s. He also had been convicted of two supported him in fighting appeals, Watson, 28, are accused of attempted his rig around a smaller white truck murder and other felonies in the that was stopped in the intersec attacks on eight victims, including tion when the right passenger window ........ . • Denny, at a South Central Los of his cab suddenly shattered. He said •:: ..E; ! ! Eberly.College of..tienc . ..'''.. - ... -- Angeles intersection. he didn't recall hearing anyone say 4 vve .:.,... 4, ..,............„,.:.......„.„,., • • ••:. • ~...„.... ..:...,.„,:.:::.,,... •• Answering questions by Deputy anything to him. -le ...i.- •:: ..,..„, • ....:„.: .. : , District Attorney Janet Moore, Denny Earlier yesterday, a truck driver 7 .....„ •-:!-, r - ri r:.• , :, , ,„........ .:,:,... •... • ..:!::!::!!'...,.:....'. . • said he didn't recall being pulled out who preceded Denny into the 7 .. : s. ......::: ::::,.. How am I going to apply this to a real job? of his big-rig gravel truck, being ' ,:...... . : .:....„.... I/ intersection stood shoulder-to- 4 • ..,::........... . .:..,,...„„ m..:;.:::,::...--:.:::..,,0,:,,,:... Am I in the wrong major? Will I like my job? kicked and beaten or being hit over shoulder in court with Watson but :' Y li!0: ... ::i!'•::!:..:•:: : •'•••• the head with a hammer and other couldn't identify his assailants. • LL''' --.. What are my options? objects. Larry Tarvin, who is 5-feet-7 and .;:, ----........_ He recalled waking up six days weighs 120 pounds, was asked to Stop chasing after money... ..,..; ..,., ~,. o ..„: later at Daniel Freeman Memorial stand next to the husky Watson, who 0 CD Hospital but said he couldn't see or stands over 6 feet tall, to show jurors talk. He was concerned about tell- the disparity in their sizes. r) ing his employer where he was, still Moore showed Tarvin a video- t.g. PS thinking it was the same day, he said. tape of his beating. The violent scene k Do similar showed Tarvin being hurled from his it \ ()If rif IS1 11 1 : 1 and earn UP ''''' f ri,€, i Prosecutors replayed a video tape of the April 29, 1992, beating, truck, thrown on the ground and . k _ thoughts whiCh followed the state trial kicked repeatedly. , ti 1 .. it N: / ilki m i acquittals of four white policemen At one point, a figure Moore to $56 in two weeks! vo . . f•- matif cross your ..:,". who beat black motorist Rodney King contends was Watson jumped on top Nilkio-'Nlhin''w on March 3, 1991. of Tarvin as he lay on the ground. The Denny beating is seen as a Another person threw a fire With this ad, NEW and returning 1 ‘.. 11 '• 1010 mind? extinguisher at him. symbolic counterpoint to the King "Do you have an independent donors (not within the past 2 - Air beating. Denny is white, and his recollection of this type of activity f' . ..) 11 , JO ' months) receive $lB upon Come to: accused attackers are black. taking place at the intersection?" she CI lit your first donation! Fenske Lab Room 140 Denny, 37, said he was unaware asked repeatedly. --... ~,,.,„:„.„.,. of the King beating verdicts when ~ .:• - • , :e . i iiiigiill*iiiig:]K. ,,,, No, ma'am, I don't," Tarvin ...''',4lKs':"',,.. expires 8/27/93 August 29 1993 7.00 p.m. .A. . • he inched his truck into the inter- answered again and again. CI ---.......-.....- , ~,.. section of Florence and Normandie Tarvin, who is white, said a young ~. ~... ....: ...: . .„.„.„.......„.. • avenues. black man drove him to a police Learn how YOU can get answers, gain .:°, "It was scary, actually, because station, where he was questioned and it was a lot of things happening ... sent to a hospital. Tarvin said his ribs Sera Tee Biologicals experience, and earn $$ $! cars going the wrong way and just were fractured and it was discov- • , . 4 , a let of glass," Denny said of the ered two weeks later that his hip was Allen and Calder Way 237-5761 Coo s erative Educ a tio n .." ... .:. scene, adding he feared striking broken. Military judge dismissed one assault charge Three panels have also been appointed to review again the cases of five officers who attended the 1991 Tailhook Association convention. By JOE TAYLOR Associated Press Writer NORFOLK, Va. A military judge dismissed one of two assault charges yesterday against a Navy com mander facing court-martial in the Tailhook investigation. The judge, Capt. William T. Vest, allowed the other assault charge to remain against Cmdr. Gregory E. Tritt. Tritt, 43, also faces charges of conduct unbecoming an officer and making a false official statement. His trial is set for Oct. 12. In another development, the Navy has appointed three fact-finding panels to review again the cases of five senior officers who attended the 1991 Tailhook Association conven tion, where dozens of women said they were molested by drunken aviators. Cmdr. John Tull, a spokesman for Vice Adm. J. Paul Reason, said the three panels will convene starting next week at the Norfolk Naval Base to gather evidence. Reason is the Navy's top authority on Tailhook matters. Tull would not disclose any alle gations involving the officers. In Tritt's case, the assault charge that was dismissed alleged that he touched women, "whose names are unknown, on the buttocks with his hands." Robert Rae, Tritt's attorney, said `the charge was too vague, since the oily thing close to identifying a victim was a witness description of someone thin with reddish-brown hair and "taller than most women." ;Vest agreed but refused to throw opt a conduct unbecoming charge using similar language. 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