European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 05, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Friday. Aci gust 5,1994 suits in gender Bias crimes pushed by Ron Rabin new Day tucked inside the $33 billion Federal anti crime Bill is a provision that would allow victims to sue assailants for gender motivated attacks. The provision considered virtually unthinkable by mainstream politicians a few years ago when feminists started pushing it is an acknowledgement that women like members of racial and ethnic minorities. May become victims of crimes simply because they Are women. In fact the Bill would allow both men and women to sue for gender Bias crimes. But More women would be expected to take advantage of the civil court provisions since historically they have been More Likely to be Vic Tims of gender related assaults. Women s advocates hailed the Bill As landmark legis lation. It s actually creating 9 new civil rights Law that women can use to sue their assailants for violating their civil rights said Leslie Wolfe of the Center for women policy studies in Washington. It shows the extent to which crimes against women. Are crimes of hatred and misogyny control and domination which have As part of their purpose the terrorizing of All  House and Senate negotiators last week agreed on a Compromise version of the anti crime Bill it is awaiting final action by both houses of Congress. A vote in the House had been scheduled for thursday but was delayed As supporters counted votes. The Bill s gender Bias provision would enable victims to use the Federal courts to sue assailants for damages or to get an injunction against an attacker if gender Bias is shown. This will give women who have been raped for example a remedy Wolfe said. When a rapist is prosecuted by the state the woman is simply a witness with no ability to shape the Case at All. Now women will be Able to bring their own  the most frequently Ted example of a crime motivated by misogyny was the massacre of 14 female Engi Neering students at the University of Montreal in 1989. A gunman entered a room told the men to leave and started shooting the women shouting you re All a Bunch of  but most cases Are murkier than that. At this Point no one can say How. Broadly or narrowly the stat Ute could be interpreted. Some feminists maintain that All rapes Are motivated by hatred of women and in time they could try to prove that in court. But under the Bill a rape victim would have to prove that her at Tacker had shown Bias by deliberately seeking out a female victim using excessive Force mutilating the victim or expressing his hatred of women during the crime. A Man could also sue a woman for a violent crime and he likewise would have to prove that his attacker was motivated by gender Bias. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago aug. 5,1984 the Senate s assistant majority Leader said the final 1985 military budget would grow 5 percent after inflation rather than the 7.5 percent that president Reagan and the Republican leadership have sought. 20 years ago aug. 5,1974 an imprisoned gang Leader and another rebel in mate killed two women hostages during an escape attempt then committed suicide prison authorities in Huntsville Texas said. 30 years ago aug. 5,1964 the Pentagon an. Bounced that a North vietnamese patrol boat had attacked two . Destroyers saying there was no damage 10 Theta Al Craft or injuries to their Crews. 40 years ago aug. 5,1954 a Senate House conference committee approved a More than $3 billion foreign Aid pro Gram restoring nearly three fourths of the Senate cuts that president Eisenhower had called too deep. 50 years ago aug. 5,1944 in the first full Day of activity in a week More than 1,200 . 8th air Force b-17s and j b-24s hit a variety of targets in Ger Many including the Peene Munde experimental stations and Oil refine Ries at Bremen and Hamburg. World War ii 50 years ago today aug. 5 Gen. George s. Ration s tank columns fan out Over France s Brittany / Peninsula capturing Vannes pushing to the outskirts of Brest and attacking near St. Malo to the East american soldiers reach Mayenne and Laval and push beyond Mortain. The soviets add a new army group to their line in Southern Poland and . . Aircraft carriers attack japanese bases in the Bonin islands. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smitti publishers inc. Tha Wori almanac of world War ii. Bison books corp., 1981 a Arkansas puts 3 men to death for murder committed in 1981 by Thomas b. Rosenstiel los Angeles times Varner Ark. In its second multiple execution in three months Arkan Sas put three men to death wednesday night for the murder of a businessman in his Home in 1981 while his wife watched and his daughter was held at gunpoint. The execution by lethal injection of James William Holmes Darryl v. Rich Ley and Hoyt Franklin Clines War the first triple execution in the United states in 32 years. The last was in Cali fornia in 1962. The Arkanas executions were carried out at Cummins prison one after the other Over three hours. Until three months ago there had been no multiple executions in the United states since the supreme court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, overturning its 1972 ruling that the death penalty was cruel and unusual punishment. The three men executed wednesday were All involved in the same crime and were tried together. The constitutionality of the joint trial was one of the issues argued during More than 12 years of appeals. The Case went twice to a Federal appeals court and then to the . Supreme court. Richley 43, whose execution came an hour earlier than scheduled because of last minute appeals for Holmes was Given Only 10 minutes warning. He was not Able to read a last letter from his brother or to write a last letter to his family. It s like leading hogs to Slaugh Ter. You have no dignity his attorney Mark Cambiano said angrily As he left the prison. I m ashamed to live in Arkansas the Only state that carries out mass executions.". All three men were executed in a Small White Concrete room called Thea Kansas death chamber that has a adjacent viewing room. Each Man walked into the chamber and was placed on the chamber s one Gurney his head and hands strapped Down wit leather restraints. The first to die was comes 37. He Layon the Gurney breathing quietly sighing once. When asked whether he had any last words he replied  after five minutes he appeared to go to sleep and he was pronounced dead 10 min utes after being Given the lethal injection. % Richley was pronounced dead six minutes after being injected. Witnesses said his breathing seemed to labor his hands seemed to turn Blue and his foot twitched. He too had no last  Holmes 37, was pronounced dead 13 family members Grieve for Hoyt f. Clines shortly before his execution on wednesday. Minutes after being injected an also had no last words the bodies were removed in body bags. All thre Tiad chosen lethal injection Over electrocution. The three were originally in have been executed in Clines Richley Holmes the order of their prison serial numbers Clines sk886, Holmes sk887, Richley sk888. But prison officials dropped Holmes to third while his final Appeal was being considered. The triple execution is Ohe Rhode Mari infestation of increasing Public support in opinion polls for the death penalty in the United states. ,. Multiple executions were resumed inlay when Arkansas executed two Black men whose convictions were  executions were the Norm in the United states until the 1960s, familiar to Many americans in images such As photographs of the Public mass hangings of the conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. " _ the largest multiple execution involved eight people in Virginia in 1951, according to the National association for the advancement of coloured people Slegal defense fund. Holmes Richley Clines and a fourth Man were convicted of bursting through the front door of Donald Lehman s House 13 years ago and beating fam while trying to Rob the House. Lehman tried to escape to his bedroom and called to his wife Virginia to get his gun. As he entered the bedroom he was shot several times in the Chest with .22-caliber hand gun As Virginia Lehman huddled in Corner. Witnesses testified that the men had boasted a week earlier at a party that they were planning to Rob some Rich old Man " in the town where Lehman lived and might have to kill him. The death sentence for the fourth Man Ray Orndorff 35, was overturned when it was discovered that Vicki leh Man s testimony differed under hypnosis from her earlier recollections. When the Lehman family said it did not wish to endure another sentencing hearing the state agreed that Orndorff be sentenced to life without parole