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Police Log ■ Simple Assault: Two 13-year- Centre Community Hospital, old boys were involved in a physi- police said, cal altercation Wednesday in the Findlay Commons game room ■ Theft: Kyle Foss reported over a video game, University Wednesday someone entered his Police Services said. vehicle early that morning while One boy, who was attending a parked near his residence on the wrestling camp, allegedly picked 200 block of Fry Drive and up and threw down the other boy, removed a cassette deck and who was attending a softball equalizer, the State College Police camp. Department said. The other boy was treated for The estimated value of the back injuries and released from items is $590. Man executed despite pleas from Catholics By BILL BASKERVILL Associated Press Writer RICHMOND, Va. Hours after getting married, a death row inmate whose cause was champi oned by the pope, Mother Teresa and the Italian government was executed Wednesday for a 1985 rape and murder he said he didn’t commit. Joseph Roger O’Dell 111, 54, died by injection at 9:16 p.m. after the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute appeal. Strapped to the gurney, O’Dell said it “was the happiest day of my life because I got married to my wife.” He pledged to love his new bride, Lori Urs, “throughout eternity.” Earlier in the day, Gov. George Allen rejected a plea for clemen cy, and a federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to order newer, more sophisticated DNA tests of semen taken from the victim. O’Dell’s lawyers had argued that the tests could prove him innocent in the slaying of Helen Schartner. In his final statement, O’Dell said he was innocent and asked the governor to preserve evidence for investigators. “Eddie, I did not kill your moth er,” O’Dell said to Ms. Schartner’s son, who was believed to be wit nessing the execution. Outside the prison, about a dozen opponents of capital punish- New Mexican woman faked alleged attack By MARTHA MENDOZA Associated Press Writer PORTALES, N.M. At first, Miranda Prather told police two men wearing masks grabbed her in her house and wrapped a rope around her neck. Then she said she was attacked by an acquaintance, a woman who looked a lot like herself. Now police say Prather, 23, whose name was at the head of an anti-gay "hit list” distributed around town, faked the attack and was herself the source of fliers that urged people to “kill a queer.” “It really doesn’t surprise me significantly. In many cases I begin to suspect the victim,” police Capt. Lonnie Berry said Wednesday after Prather’s arrest. Prather, a graduate student at Eastern New Mexico University, reported that she was attacked on Monday, the same day police found 13 copies of an anti-gay flier in a laundromat. It listed eight people identified as homo- On the World Wide Web: The Digital Collegian, an expanded, on-line version of the Collegian, can ment staged a candlelight vigil in a light*rain as the execution hour approached. O’Dell had argued that he should have been allowed to tell the jurors at his sentencing in 1986 that if they did not give him the death penalty, he would have to spend the rest of his life in prison. The case has gotten extraordi nary attention in Italy, where opposition to capital punishment runs high and where Ms. Urs, the Boston University law student O’Dell married Wednesday in a cellblock next to the death cham ber, has worked the media. In Rome, a long imposing silence broken only by a man screaming, “Murder!” followed the announcement of O’Dell’s exe cution in a public square where hundreds of Italians demonstrat ed against capital punishment. About eight hours earlier, O’Dell and Ms. Urs exchanged vows through the bars of his cell as a death row chaplain officiated. Sister Helen Prejean, author of “Dead Man Walking,” and prison guards served as official witness es. For security reasons, the new lyweds were not permitted to touch. The governor said his decision on clemency would not be influ enced by pressure from Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II and the Italian government. sexuals starting with Prather. The author threatened to “begin executing one queer a week.” A video surveillance camera recorded a woman placing the fliers in the laundromat. Accord ing to the affidavit for her arrest, the tape showed Prather. Berry said a police composite sketch drawn from Prather’s description of the female attacker looked “just like the victim.” Prather described a woman who was “the same size as her, the same build as her, looks like her, dresses like her. The only differ ence is the way she brushes her hair,” Berry said. A 3-inch cut was visible on Prather’s cheek as she was led, handcuffed, into the county jail. Authorities earlier said her wounds, including a cut on one leg, were superficial. “I know the main suspect. I got coerced into doing some things I shouldn’t have done,” she shouted to reporters. 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