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The Independent Record, Helena, Thursday, November 1. 1984 5A Woman's lawyers fighting execution More families can't keep up with rising home heat bills RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) As lawyers pledged continued appeals to stop her Friday execution, Velma Barfield, who would become the first woman put to death in the United States in 22 years, said she wanted to die in her pink, cotton pajamas rather than prison garb. Mrs. Barfield, 52, scheduled to die by lethal injection at 2 a.m.

Friday for killing her boyfriend with poison, lost her third appeal of the week cuted in the United States this week and the 29th executed since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed the states to restore the death penalty. Convicted murderers were put to death early Tuesday in Louisiana and Texas. As the appeals continued, Mrs. Barfield waited in her cell 18 steps from the death chamber in Central Prison, where she told prison officials she wanted to wear her pajamas to the execution. when U.S.

District Judge Franklin Dupree on Wednesday refused to halt her execution. Dupree then granted a petition to send the case to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, which was to hear arguments today. Mrs. Barfield's lawyers said they expected the case to go to the U.S.

Supreme Court regardless of the appeals court's ruling. She would be the third person exe Concern for the People, Respect for the Law. WASHINGTON (AP) More than 1 million Americans may be facing winter without heat as a result of recent utility shutoffs, the National Consumer Law Center says. In a report issued Wednesday, the center said if current trends hold, more than 1.8 million households using natural gas will lose their utility service, an increase of 9.7 percent from 1983 despite the economic recovery. "When energy costs absorb up to 50 percent of a low-income family's budget, is it any surprise Ithat shutoffs continue to grow?" asked Carol Werner of the center.

is the safety net when families have to choose between heating and eating?" 1 The report said the poor pay four times the percentage of in come that average Americans spend for home energy, and that federal assistance to help pay their home heating bills is insufficient to avert widespread utility cutoffs. "The utility shutoff problem seems to defy the economic recovery," Howard Fox of the center told a news conference. "The energy crisis for the poor has become a permanent and growing fixture on the American scene." The center is a non-profit organization that says it works for equal justice for poor people in energy and consumer affairs. The study describes how low-income households go through a cycle of high energy bills, mounting debt to utilities, shutoff notices and termination, scraping funds together for a possible re-connection only to face even higher energy bills. Although 6.5 million households received assistance from the federal low-income home energy assistance program, the report said its benefits are inadequate to prevent disconnections of utility service.

The average $212 benefit this year is less than 60 percent of the average debt of $368 to the utility when service is terminated, it said. More than a million people may be facing a winter without heat as a result of utility cutoffs in the past year, the center said. In 1983, 4.7 million people in more than 1.6 million households using natural gas had utility service disconnected, it said, S-l. tj IT! Paid lor by Honzel for District Judge Committee. Pete Carpareili.

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