European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Thursday May 21, 1992 the stars and stripes c Page 7appeals court refuses to Grant stay for Coleman Jarratt a. Apr a Federal appeals court refused to Block the execution of Roger Keith Coleman which was scheduled wednesday night for the rape and murder of his sister in Law Coleman a defense team said. They planned an Appeal to the . Supreme court. Coleman in addition failed a lie Detector test gov. L. Douglas Wilder allowed him to take wednesday in a last Effort to forestall the execution. Wilder who denied clemency for Coleman on monday said he authorized the test in an a extraordinary and unprecedented move a at the request of Coleman a attorneys. The results showed Coleman lied about the a pertinent questions in the Case the governors office said in a statement. Kathy Mckoy a Secretary for Kathleen Behan a Washington attorney representing Coleman said the 4tn . Circuit court of appeals rejected a request for a stay of execution. She said Behan Wasny to immediately available for comment. Wilder said the lie Detector test showed his decision to deny Coleman clemency was a warranted and  on tuesday Coleman went on the talk show circuit to proclaim his innocence. He was interviewed from his prison cell on no cd a today show and on the syndicated Donahue show on which his Girlfriend and Mother also appeared. Wednesday morning on today investigator evangelist James Mccloskey who has won Freedom for at least eight people serving life sentences or facing execution said Coleman a supporters were following new leads they hoped would Block the execution. A i believe in miracles a Mccloskey said. Coleman a 33-year-old former Coal Miner was sentenced to die for the rape and murder of his sister in Law Wanda Mccoy at her Home in the southwestern Virginia town of Grundy. He insists he is innocent. New Orleans police Lead in reported brutality cases washing ton a new Orleans police Lead the nation in brutality complaints lodged against them at the Federal level a 35 a year on average according to a government study undertaken after the Rodney g. King beating. The los Angeles police department the focus of a Justice department civil rights investigation in the King beating ranked 11th with an average of 14 complaints annually said the study released tuesday by Congress. But the los Angeles county sheriffs office ranked second with an average of 34 complaints a year. The Jefferson Parish la sheriffs office which serves the suburban area near new Orleans ranked third with an average of 23 complaints a year followed by the san Antonio police who averaged 21 reports of brutality annually. There was no immediate Public reaction from any of the departments. Sgt. Barry Fletcher a new Orleans police spokesman said the department had not received a copy of the report and would not comment immediately. The Justice departments civil rights division compiled the rankings from a review of 15,000 complaints of police misconduct it received Between october 1984 and september 1990. The study was ordered by then attorney general Dick Thornburgh after the King beating last year. Justice officials who recently testified about the study the top 5 Here Are the police departments with the most brutality complaints filed against them 1. New Orleans 2. Los Angeles county3. Jefferson Parish la. 4. San antonio5. Elpaso Texas amps on Capitol Hill said that no useful conclusions could be drawn about police brutality because the data were incomplete. They noted that the department received complaints against fewer than 4,400 of the 16,000 state and local police departments nationwide. But rep. Don Edwards d-Calif., said the study supports the need to empower the Justice department to sue police departments where it finds patterns of widespread brutality. The report showed that there was one police brutality complaint to the Justice department for every 1,305  by new Orleans police. The rate for los Angeles county sheriffs deputies was one in 1,519. By contrast los Angeles police had one complaint for every 15,393 arrests. Rapist murderer executed in Texas Huntsville Texas a a migrant worker who was sentenced to death by a jury that took just seven minutes to decide his Fate was executed by injection Early wednesday for raping and murdering a 15-Ycar-old girl in 1984. Jesus Romero 27, went to his death after the . Supreme court rejected two late hour appeals. Romero became the 49th person executed in Texas since the supreme court in 1976 let states resume capital punishment. The total is by far the nations highest. According to testimony Romero and some companions were drinking Beer and taking drugs the night decline in nuclear Power predicted Washington apr use of nuclear Power to make electricity will decline worldwide by the end of the Century unless orders for new plants turn around sharply an environmental study group said wednesday. Nicolas Lenssen co author of a study for the world watch Institute said there was a drop in the total capacity of nuclear plants last year for the first time since their use for electric Power began in the 1950s. At the end of 1990, the International atomic Energy Agency or Iaea reported a capacity of 328,952 megawatts and at the end of 1991 the figure had fallen to 325,942 megawatts he said. Lenssen attributed the dim prospects for nuclear Energy to Public opposition and to the unexpected Cost of new plants including the Cost of taking them out of operation when they become obsolete. A never since the three mile Island Accident rocked the world in 1979 rejection of nuclear Power has spread from the United states to Western Europe latin America and the far East a the report said. A most recently the wave of democracy that has swept Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent states the former soviet Union has eroded Public support and led to the cancellation of dozens of  Lenssen said that at the beginning of this year he found Only one Plant being built in the United states. Because of plants now being built he foresaw a temporary increase in the use of nuclear Power Over the next few years. Decline could be seeded if the 15 plants similar to the one that caused the 1986 chernobyl disaster in Ukraine Are closed in coming years a As is already being planned he said. Lenssen and the study a co author Christopher Flavin found Only 49 plants being built at the beginning of this year one Quarter As Many As 10 years ago. The report said France is the Only country in Western Europe that is continuing the expansion of nuclear plants. Even in France the authors found work continuing on Only six new plants. Japan has 42 reactors that Supply 27 percent of the country a capacity with the total planned to reach 80 by the year 2010.hiv linked to actor Reed s death los Angeles a Robert Reed it patriarch of televisions the Brady Bunch Vas infected with the aids virus and it contributed to his death his death certify ate states. The immediate cause of death was Olon Lymphoma with infection by the Luman immunodeficiency virus listed As a significant conditions contributing to Leath a according to the certificate signed y or. H. Rex Greene. Greene would not say How the actor contracted his. A i can to say anything because this is confidential information a Greene said tues May. A i think its despicable that he a being dragged through the  Reed whose real name was John Robin Rietz was 59 when he died May 12 at Huntington memorial Hospital in Pasadena. His daughter Karen Baldwin of Wheeling 111., said at the time that her father died of Colon cancer. There was no mention of his infection. Calls placed to the Baldwin Home weren to answered. Reed was the latest aids related death in Hollywood. The disease has contributed to the deaths of such stars As Rock Hudson Liberace and Brad Davis. Davis who starred in Midnight express wrote a scathing indictment of Hollywood a treatment of aids victims which was published after his sept. 8 death. He lambasted what he called Hollywood a hypocrisy in raising funds for aids research and care while abandoning those with aids. A file Robert Reed in 1982. Olga Perales was killed near san Benito in 1984. Perales was raped repeatedly stabbed in the Chest and stomach and beaten in the head with a pipe. Romero was seen giggling As witnesses at his 1985 trial recounted the slaying. His attorneys had argued that he had psychological problems. On tuesday a Federal judge granted him a reprieve but a Federal appeals court quickly lifted it. Two of Romero a co defendants were also convicted of murder. One was sentenced to death the other received a life term. Another Man received 20 years for sexual  astronaut to leave Nasa in july from wire reports Cape canaveral Ida. A astronaut Bruce Melnick who operated the shuttle Arm during last weeks satellite Rescue plans to leave Nasa in july the space Agency said tuesday. Melnick 42, was one of seven astronauts on endeavour s Maiden flight which ended saturday with a Landing at Edwards fab Calif. He has accepted a directors Job in shuttle processing with Lockheed space operations  attack police Post Elkhart ind. A about 200 people most of them Black attacked a police Post with rocks and bottles and chased Whites from a housing project late tuesday after the arrest of a shooting suspect. Police called in Black leaders who persuaded the crowd to disperse about Xhu hours after the Melee began. One person was reported injured and one was arrested. The incident in this City of 43,000 began with the arrest of Arthur Mccastor a Black charged with criminal recklessness in the shooting of another Man May 8.ex-s&l aide admits fraud los Angeles a a former top aide to Lincoln savings owner Charles Keating pleaded guilty to Federal Bank and securities fraud charges tuesday becoming the second Keating associate in less than a week to admit wrongdoing in the thrifts $2.6 billion collapse. Judith e. Wischer 43, of Paradise Valley ariz., pleaded guilty to two counts of Bank fraud and one count of securities fraud during a hearing before . District judge Mariana Pfaelzer