European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 27, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday june 27, 1990 the stars and stripes a a a Page 7ark., Texas execute confessed murderers Varner Ark. Apr r. Gene Simmons convicted of 16 murders in a december 1987 rampage was put to death monday night two years after he pleaded for a Swift execution to a let the torture and suffering in me  Simmons who had waived All appeals died by injection at 9 19 p.m., said prison spokesman David White. White said Simmons had a Brief last statement a Justice delayed finally be done is justifiable  the execution of Simmons 49, was the second in Arkansas in a week. The june 18 electrocution of John Edward swindler was the states first execution in 26 years. Unlike swindler Simmons was convicted after the states method of execution was changed to lethal injection. Meanwhile in Texas James Smith was put to death by injection at 12 31 . Tuesday for the 1983 slaying of a Houston businessman. The 37-year-old former Tarot card Reader became the third Texas inmate this year and 36th in Texas to be executed since the state resumed capital punishment in 1983. The two executions brought to 132 the number of people put to death since the . Supreme court in 1976 allowed states to resume use of capital punishment. Simmons shot clubbed shot at or strangled 21 people 16 of whom died. He was convicted first of the murder of two Russellville residents then at a second trial for the murders of his 14 relatives. Eight of the 14 relatives were children ranging in age from 1 to 17. The killings were believed to have occurred Between dec. 22 and dec. 28, 1987. After his first conviction Simmons pronounced the verdict and penalty just. He said he  Appeal and asked that no one interfere. A i Only ask for what i deserve a he told the court. A let the torture and suffering in me end. Please allow me the right to be at  death penalty foes nonetheless delayed it for about two years. Sunday was the last Day under prison rules for Simmons to have visitors other than his attorneys or a spiritual adviser. White originally said that Simmons refused to talk to his attorneys but they eventually spoke with him briefly. A we were there to let him know that our services were available but he said he did no to need them which is what we expected a said Robert Irwin one of the attorneys. Surviving family members have sought to find out Simmons motive for the slayings but without Success. Since his arrest Simmons has offered no explanation. In Texas Smith was put to death in Huntsville for the slaying of Larry Rohus. Witnesses said Smith showed up at Rohus Houston insurance office and demanded Money. When Rohus complied and began walking away Smith summoned him Back then shot him through the heart As Rohus begged for his life. Smith came within six hours of dying in 1988 before death penalty opponents persuaded his Mother Alexine Hamilton of Indianapolis to seek Legal help to save her son. The . Supreme court stayed the execution. However in a recent ruling in an Arkansas Case the High court ruled that inmates have the right to refuse appeals and May Volunteer to be put to death. Hamilton failed again last weekend to delay her songs death when the Texas court of criminal appeals and a Federal District judge rejected her arguments that Smith is incompetent to decide whether he should die. Smith said last week that he wants to die because a do Good Erst already have robbed him of time in the next world. A after All this unnecessary suffering and abuse Here on death Row. I m not going to change my mind a Smith said. A these people know my position Well. My position has not  Early monday Smith was taken to Houston where a psychiatrist re evaluated him and found him competent assistant Texas attorney general Bob Walt  daughter wont testify against brother from wire reports los Angeles a Marlon Brando a daughter Cheyenne has left the country for Tahiti and win refuse to return and testify against her brother Christian a prosecutor said monday. However Deputy District attorney Steven Barshop told a judge he would attempt to use a recently enacted Law to introduce cheyennes earlier statements to police As evidence in the preliminary hearing for her brother who is charged with murder in the shooting death other Boyfriend. A i believe the statement is incredibly damaging to her brother a said Barshop. He refused however to provide details. Cheyennes Boyfriend Dag Drollet 26, by whom she was eight months pregnant was shot to death on May 16 at the elder Brando a estate. The actor was Home at the time but told police he was in a different part of the House and did not witness the slaying. Christian Brando 32, reportedly told police that Drollet had died during a struggle Over a gun. Barshop said that treaties Between the United states and France which controls Tahiti make no provisions to seek the return of Cheyenne. A i can serve her through French Law but that does no to mean she has to comply. There a no provision for an extradition proceeding a Barshop said. She flew to the polynesian Island where her father maintains a House the Day after prosecutors first attempted to serve her with court papers naming her As a material witness. A Christian Brando arriving for mondays court session. Woman testifying at Barry trial accuses him of sexual assault by the los Angeles times Washington a three Virgin islands women testified monday that District of Columbia mayor Marion Barry made crude sexual advances to them in a St. Thomas hotel room in which an a rated video played on a television screen and what smelled like smoke from crack cocaine billowed from an adjacent bathroom. Linda Creque Maynard a Mother of two twice broke Down in tears As she described How Barry forced her to have sex with him after she unsuccessfully tried to resist him. Dixie Lee Hedrington who said she fended Barry off testified a the was a pig and there was no Way i would let him touch  Zenna Matthias testified Barry took some cocaine powder out of a vial and a placed it in each of my  Matthias said she accepted an invitation from Charles Lewis a longtime family Friend and close confidant of Barry to meet the mayor because it would provide valuable contacts in Washington where she hoped to go to Law school. Barry who was arrested in a Washington hotel room in an Fri sting operation in january after allegedly smoking crack cocaine is on trial in Federal District court on 14 charges of perjury and use of illegal drugs. The testimony relating to a Barry visit in March 1988, amounted to the most weeping attack on barrys character  far admitted into evidence. Maynard said that she was invited to barrys hotel room by Lewis. In barrys room she said the mayor pulled her Down on the hotel room bed and a was All Over  she said that she was left alone with Barry who was Clad a in a Robe a for at least 10 minutes. A i was fighting the mayor off. He already had me Down on the  a did you and or. Barry have sexual relations at the hotel a prosecutor Judith e. Retchin asked. A yes a Maynard said almost inaudibly sobbing. A did you want that to happen a Retchin asked. Again almost inaudibly Maynard sobbed  Hedrington who was unable to be present at barrys trial because she is pregnant was heard on a tape telling a Federal grand jury that a the was a pig in my  she said Lewis escorted her to barrys room. Hedrington testified that when Lewis greeted Barry at his hotel room he said in be got something for  Lewis then showed the mayor a Small pipe and a sex fila Ned to him what its for a she Testi red. Then they went into the bathroom she said and she identified the smell that wafted out from the bathroom to be that of crack cocaine. She also said that she saw Barry smoke a marijuana cigarette. A i smoked it a Little and gave it to the mayor who was sitting directly across from her said Hedrington. A the smoked it a she said. Barshop said that repeated attempts to Contact Cheyenne have proven futile. She broke no Law by leaving the United states he added saying an investigation is under Way concerning the circumstances under which she departed. Municipal court judge Rosemary Shumsky set cheyennes preliminary hearing for july 23, but did not Rule on the Issue surrounding the new Law. Her lawyer Robert Shapiro said outside court that he was not sure he would Challenge Barshop a plan suggesting that the use of proposition 115 rules a would be beneficial to  under an initiative approved by California voters on june 5, prosecutors May present hearsay evidence at the hearing in which a judge determines whether there is sufficient evidence to hold a defendant for trial. The measure is intended to spare victims the ordeal of testifying at a preliminary hearing and then having to repeat their stories at the trial. Barshop said the statement he would attempt to introduce was made to police by Cheyenne on june i 2. Accounts of the slaying have been confused and the preliminary hearing is expected to present the first Clear picture of what happened. The defendant has told police that he shot Drollet accidentally during the struggle after he angrily accused the victim of a slapping Cheyenne  police have said that there was no sign of a struggle. The reclusive elder Brando has told police that he did not believe that Drollet had abused his daughter. Christian could be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. Adm. Carney Wii planner and no Dies Washington apr retired . Robert Bostwick Carney planner of several key Pacific naval Battles in world War ii and first chief of naval operations for president Eisenhower died of cardiac arrest at his Home monday. He was 95. Carney chief of staff to . William a a Bull Halsey was awarded the Navy Cross for his role in planning . Operations in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in october 1944, a Battle in which 60 japanese ships were sunk at a Cost of seven . Vessels. He later headed the group that planned the invasion of Okinawa. Among other assignments after the War he served As commander in chief of nato forces in Southern Europe. As chief of naval operations from 1953 to 1955, Carney was charged with holding Down budgets following the korean War. Carney is survived by a daughter four grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. His wife of 71 years Grace Cray Croft Carney died last december