European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page g the stars and stripes thursday March 23.1989 stateside retired greyhounds attend hearing in storehouse j is i on aim i program to so Liat retired Jere by kinds arc adopted rather than dust toyed had some unusual if natural at Lii Sai a slate House hearing three hound we m m to the will cacs. I i my first greyhound on Mother Day i9hj," said Louise Inkman who runs Grey hound friends int., a shelter we be placed 2,500 greyhounds since As retired hounds dully of and Sparky lucked on. Coli Mari and oilers asked tie government regulations committee on tuesday to support adoption for the does after their racing Airi m end at age 2 or 3, consumer affairs Secretary i Aula Gold urged the committee to set nude s100.000 from the dog racing Industry for Anu lion programs. Gerald venc7i4, chairman of the slate racing car old Nian executed by injection Early wednesday for murdering a Man nearly 11 cars ago by smashing his head repeatedly with a Shotgun butt during a robbery that relied is 1.50. Leon King showed Little emotion ii he received the lethal injection far the death of 26-je.ir-old Michael Clapton Underwood whose Girlfriend was repeat edly raped and so domed during the april 11j78 Clack according to court re i cords. I appreciate what you did for me King old five friends the exe cution i Loc you All god bless " he closed his cd i and sighed As the drugs began to take hold. He was declared dead at 12.27 am. 10 minutes after the injection began. Its about ,".said Doug Shaver who prosecuted King s Case and is now a judge in Houston if anyone deserve the death penalty it s him said Shaver adding thai King had never expressed remorse Tor the kill ing. King became the third person executed this year in the United states and the i07lh since inc . Supreme court s 1976 ruling that allowed slates to resume capital punish mini. He was the 30th inmate to be put la death in to which has Eye ruled More people than any other state since the mid-1970s. On tuesday King lost last minute appeals before a Federal Disi Rici judge Federal appeals court in new Orleans and the . Supreme court his Allor Nijs contended that King suffered from organic brain damage King was convicted and Scanlen cd to death twice in Underwood s slaying. Its accomplice Allen Ray Carter is serving a life prison term. Carter could not be sentenced to death because he w As Only 16 at the time of the Cri me. According to court records under Wood and his 19-year-old Girlfriend were abducted at gunpoint from a Houston nightclub on april 10, 1978, and taken to a Remote area where Underwood was beaten to deals. The medical examiner who performed the autopsy on Underwood compared the damage to that which could result front being run Over by an in wheel trac Tor trailer. King and Carter became enraged after abducting the couple because they were carry ing on s11.50, authorities said after Underwood was killed the woman was sexually attacked but sur Vived a five hour ordeal and identified King Antl Carter As her attackers. She required psychological treatment and was institutionalized for a Lime according to Shaver. She eventually itto cd out of Texas and got married. After King s first conviction was Over turned she had to return to Houston to testify again but her nude us years earlier. Was unknown to her then divorced her Shaver said. After the woman s life returned to nor Mal she married again but tragedy si3lkcd her again when her husband was slain during a service station shooting the judge said
