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5 p.m. today at the State College Presbyterian Church.
■ The Latter-day Saint Student Association at Penn State will spon
sor worship services at 9:30 a.m. on Sunday in Eisenhower Chapel. For
more information call 238-3709.
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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-
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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.
Berry said Prather showed no
sign of mental illness.
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