European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes saturday August 24, 1991killers executed in Virginia Missouri Jarratt a. Apr a convicted killer died in Virginia a electric chair late thursday but Only after prison officials carried out the electrocution procedure twice. In Missouri a Man was put to death by injection several hours later for the killings of four cafe Teria workers. In Virginia a physician at Greenville correctional Center checked Derick d. Lynn Peterson so a won pulse and determined he was still alive after being Given the Normal dose of electricity used to execute people a 1,725 volts for 10 seconds and 240 volts for about 90 seconds. The entire process then was repeated and Peterson 30, was pronounced dead witnesses said. Jean Clarke the prisons operations director confirmed witnesses observations but  elaborate Peterson was executed for the 1982 Mur Denof a supermarket Mai Iager. In Missouri meanwhile Maurice Oscar Byrd 36, died by injection Early Friday at Potosi correctional Center for the killings of four Missouri cafeteria workers in 1980. The . Supreme court late thursday had refused to consider last ditch appeals by Peterson and Byrd. Justice Thurgood Marshall dissented in Virginia an angry Russ Ford director of chaplain services for state prisons told reporters just after the execution that his final private moments with Peterson were interrupted by prison officials who opened the blinds to the condemned Many a cell. A a in a in rage a Ford said. A this process is  Ford said he has ministered to 11 condemned men just before they died and this was the first time their last moments were intruded upon. Asked about Fords complaints Clarke said a a in a not aware of  a Federal judge ordered a stay in Peterson a execution earlier thursday but the 4th . Circuit court of appeals overturned the ruling saying Peterson  have waited until this week to Start a new round of appeals. In an interview this week Peterson said the shooting of the Hampton va., grocery store manager was accidental. He said he received the death penalty because he was Black. In Missouri Byrd was granted several execution stays since being sentenced in 1982. But last week a three judge panel of the 8th . Circuit court of appeals dissolved a final stay and refused to hear any further appeals. The full court also refused to hear appeals wednesday. Authorities said that during a cafeteria robbery in suburban St. Louis Byrd herded four workers into an office then gunned them Down one by one. The bodies were stacked like cordwood they said. Byrd confessed to the murders in 1981 after being arrested in Savannah ga., for the alleged slaying of a liquor store employee. Including thursdays executions there have been 152 executions nationwide since the supreme court let states resume capital punishment in 1976. Arrives for hearing former pal Leader Jim Bakker handcuffed and with shackles around his Cowboy boots arrives at the Federal courthouse in Charlotte n.c., on thursday for a reduction of his 45-year sentence for his conviction on 24 counts of mail fraud wire fraud and conspiracy. He has served about 22 months in a Federal prison in Rochester Minn the judge hearing the Case has been asked to consider a sentence of from three to 12 years for Bakker. The judge was expected to make his decision this week. Oil firm to pay record safety fines for fatal explosion in Houston by the los Angeles times Houston the Phillips 66 co. Will pay u record $4 million to Settle hundreds of safety citations issued by Federal inspectors after a 1989 Houston explosion in which 23 people were killed and 130 others were injured the occupational safety and health administration announced thursday. The settlement was the largest amount Ever paid to Osha in the 20-year history of the organization but considerably less than the $5.7 million in fines originally recommended. Phillips said that paying the fines in no Way meant that the company was admitting to safety violations but was instead intended to avoid Long and costly litigation. Phillips 66, a wholly owned subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum co. Must also implement safety procedures that will be overseen by an Independent consultant. Former top of official pleads guilty to charges of procurement fraud Washington a prosecutors landed one of the biggest fish in the massive military procurement fraud probe dubbed operation 111 wind As a former Deputy assistant Secretary of the air Force pleaded guilty to conspiracy and bribe taking. Victor d. Cohen who was in charge of buying tactical command control communications and computer systems for the air Force faces up to 20 years in prison and a Fine of $500,000 when he is sentenced dec. 6 in . District court. Cohen 55, pleaded guilty thursday to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United states to commit bribery and conversion of government property and one count of accepting a bribe As a government official. The highest ranking Pentagon official to plead guilty in the 111 wind investigation is Melvyn Paisley a former assistant to the Secretary of the navy., a Vic Cohen was just one step below Mel Paisley a level on the air Force Side a said assistant . Attorney Joseph Aronica in Alexandria  a where Cohen entered his plea. A a he a a  the five year 111 wind investigation headed by the . Attorneys office in Alexandria has led to convictions of five corporations and 45 defense company executives Pentagon officials and Independent defense consultants Aronica said. Asked How Many More May be swept up Aronica said a time will Tell. The investigation is  noting that Cohen a plea agreement requires him to cooperate with authorities Aronica said a we Hope that with Cohen a cooperation it the investigation will move in some other directions that we re  court papers said Cohen improperly helped clients of defense consultant William Galvin by wrongly influencing procurement decisions and improperly providing sensitive information. In return the documents said Galvin paid $123,100 to Cohen a Friend Kyle h. Woodbury. The Money was intended for Cohen the papers said adding that he was to receive More Money provided by Loral electronics corp. Executive Louis Oberndorf. . Weapons crackdown nets hardened criminals Washington a Federal agents rounded up hundreds of the nations most hardened criminals in a sweep aimed at felons subject to mandatory prison terms for violating Federal gun  Bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms an Arm of the Treasury department said that As of late thursday its agents had detained 425 suspects on warrants charging past unlawful use or Possession of guns. Two thirds could face minimum mandatory sentences of five years or More without parole or probation for Federal firearms violations at director Stephen e. Higgins said. Some 150 of the 600 or More expected to be arrested by the time operation Achilles Heel winds Down this weekend have a record of three or More felony convictions mandating a sentence of no less than 15 years for possessing a firearm Higgins said. A we need to advertise the fact to the criminal population first that there Are serious penalties for carrying a firearm in commission of crimes of violence a he said at a news conference. Higgins said one third of those detained in raids beginning before Dawn thursday were Street gang members. Others were armed drug traffickers those carrying guns in school zones and other convicted felons. One had a record of 55 felony Onvie tons and several others had 20 or More convictions he said. Higgins said the Bureau targeted those �?o6 percent of criminals who commit up to 70 percent of violent  he said the operation a one of the largest of its kind a will be repeated. A certainly there Are thousands More out there what we Call the a Cream of the  a he said that filling the nations overcrowded prisons costs Money but would still be cheaper than allowing professional criminals to stay on the streets. The Bureau a in a Survey of criminals serving Quot Ong prison terms concluded that such lawbreakers committed 160 crimes a Vear at $2,400 per crime. The operation had been planned for several months with More than 1,000 Federal agents joining local police in the crackdown he said