European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 c 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 cafeteria workers. In Virginia a physician at Greenville correctional Center checked Derick Lynn Peterson a Peterson pulse and determined he was still alive after being Given the Normal dog 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 murder of a supermarket manager. 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 former pal Leader Jim Bakker handcuffed and with shackles around his Cowboy boots arrives at the Federal courthouse in Charlotte ., on thursday. Bakker s sentence reduced parole possible in 1995 Charlotte , a a Federal judge trimmed 27 years off Jim bakkers initial prison sentence Friday sentencing the former television evangelist to 18 years in prison. The 51-year-old pal founder has spent nearly two years in prison in Rochester minn., after being convicted of fraud in 1989. Bakker is now eligible for parole in 1995. In february a Federal appeals court upheld his conviction but threw out the 45-year sentence imposed by . District judge Robert Potter ruling the judge had made intemperate remarks during the sentencing. Neither Bakker nor his family showed emotion As judge Graham Mullen handed Down the sentence. But moments before Bakker had made an emotional plea asking forgiveness from followers and family. A i choose to accept full responsibility for the actions for which i am now being sentenced. I do not blame anyone else or minimize my responsibility As pastor and president of heritage Usa a he said referring to the.,religious theme Park he founded. A there has not been a Day gone by in which i have not grieved for the partners of heritage Usa a Bakker said. A a pal did not belong to me it belonged to the partners. A i ask All that 1 have Hurt to please forgive me. I have asked heavenly god to please forgive me and now i ask this court for human forgiveness a Bakker said. His wife Tammy Faye Bakker who was seated on the front Row alongside her daughter Tammy sue Chapman wiped away tears As he concluded. 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 pm 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. Grow impatient As recovery from Bob drags on Boston apr tens of thousands of new englander robbed of electrical Power by Hurricane Bob continued to Cope Friday As Utility Crews worked to get them Back on line. In Carver where practically everyone of the 7,000 Homes rely on Well water about 600 Homes were still dark and their faucets useless As they have been since Bob blew through the Region on monday. Carver selectman Frank Kane was grating on his wife a nerves a and nose a until he sneaked in a Shower at the police station. Wife was quite pleased a Kane said  Warwick r.i., residents who rely on electric sewage pumps found that using toilets sent waste backing up into their basements and Yards. Warwick resident Joan Smith bought a portable toilet and put her toilet trained 2-year-old son Back in diapers. A with three kids you need a flu Shable toilet Quot Smith lamented. Impatience with the storms aftermath was widespread. A frustrated and without Power a read a hand scribbled sign on the East end hardware store in East Hampton n.y., on Long Island. A tomorrow we will have the following flashlights batteries matches candles kerosene and  the Hurricane that roared through the Northeast on monday with top winds clocked at 115 Mph was blamed for at least 16 deaths from the Carolinas to Maine. Second and third Day rainstorms worsened conditions in parts of the Region. About 83,000 Massachusetts Utility customers were without Power thursday night As were 62,000 on Long Island n.y., 22,000 in Rhode Island 13,000 in Maine and 6,800 in Connecticut. The storm hit the poor especially hard. Salvation army workers in Massachusetts on thursday were feeding Low in come families whose food had spoiled in their refrigerators. A a it a hectic. There a no question this is from the Hurricane a said capt. Douglas Jones of the salvation army in new Bedford. Oil firm to pay record fines for fatal explosion in Houston by the los Angeles times Houston the Phillips 66 co. Will pay a 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. A this is a real Home run for the work ers at Phillips a said Douglas Fulter an Osha spokesman. A this sends a message to Industry and it should help them determine How important safety  Phillips 66, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bartlesville  Phillips Petroleum co., must also implement detailed safety procedures that will be Over seen by an Independent consultant. Fish engineering of Houston was also fined $729,600 in connection with contract work done at the Plant but those fines Are being appealed. Osha originally announced the fines against Phillips in april 1990, alleging wilful violations of Federal Job safety Laws at the company a plastics Plant in Pasadena a Houston suburb. At the time Osha officials issued a blistering indictment of Phillips saying that the company violated widely recognized and understood safety practices As Well As its own corporate policy. Osha had alleged Phillips was guilty of 566 wilful violations and that fish engineering had committed 181 wilful violations. A the goal of this settlement is to prevent future tragedies and protect workers the Public and the environment a Osha administrator Gerard f. Scannell said. Some of the safety measures must go into effect immediately at the Pasadena Plant. Phillips has agreed to undertake similar Steps at other facilities in Texas and Utah