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tr 4 Th Dally Journal, St Kmncols Ca, Wrdnrndajr, Ifertmhtr I W5 dnrUjr, Itortmtwr IW Convicted killer O'Neal put to -death p.m., and O'Neal was given a sedative at about 9:45 p.m., when it became obvious there would be no more court action. In a last-ditch effort to stop the execution, Gorla had sought a stay from the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday, but it was denied without O'Neal had fasted all day and declined a final meal Tuesday night, said Department of Corrections spokesman Tim Knicst. Knicst said O'Neal visited with a minister and his attorney, Michael J. Gorla, and talked to his wife, Lynn, by telephone during the day.

The attorney left the prison at about 7:45 Execution list comment by a 9-0 vote. The office of Gov. Mel Carnahan notified the prison shortly after midnight that there would be no clemency grantrd. After the execution, state prisons director Dora Schriro read a statement from Carnahan, who extended his sympathy to the families of the victim and of O'Neal. Carnahan said the judicial process had to run its course.

"I find nothing to justify setting aside the result of the verdict of the jury and the subsequent judicial proceedings," he said. O'Neal was first sentenced to life in prison after, at 17, he killed a 78-ycar-old man during a burglary in Strafford, in southwest Missouri. Then, in February 1984, he killed Arthur Dade in a prison walkway, stabbing him tour times with an ice pick. O'Neal was reputed to be involved at the time with the Aryan Brotherhood, a white supremacist group, officials said. 1992.

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circuit v-uuri oi Appeals had rejected O'Neal's plea for a delay of execution. Gorla had claimed the trial jury that sentenced O'Neal to death wasn't told that one of the prison guards who testified that he saw Dade's murder had a criminal record of assault. He said the fact was never disclosed by a prosecutor. The appeals court ruled the information would not have changed the outcome of the trial. rrcsccuiors uispuica neai earlier claim of self-defense in the Dade killing.

They called it a well planned "Aryan hit" pulled off by O'Neal and two other inmates of the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jcf icrson Lily. Auuionucs said one man grabbed Dade and a second held the victim's hands and arms while O'Neal repeatedly stabbed him in the heart and lungs. O'Neal was the 17th man on Mis souri's Death Row to be executed since 1989, and the sixth this year, to select. from. rirufmrrr EASY STREET Auditions NATURALIZER Ik FootWorks, And Many More! All Totes $1.99 While They Last! Great.

Gift idea! mm POTOSI, Mo. (AP) Robert Earl O'Neal who spent half of his 34 years in prison for murder, was executed by lethal injection early today at the Polosi Correctional Center. O'Neal, a reputed white supremacist who killed a black fellow prison inmate over a decade ago, became a bom-again Christian while in prison and took his Bible with him to (he execution chamber. "Praise the Lord in the name of Jesus," O'Neal told prison officials shortly before his execution. "I forgive everybody involved in this.

Jesus is my Lord." Covered with a white sheet and wearing his thick glasses, O'Neal mouthed words to his wife, Lynn, who was watching from a separate room, just before the lethal drugs were administered. O'Neal stopped talking and closed his eyes within seconds of the announcement by prison officials at 12:15 a.m. that the first of the drugs had been administered. He was pronounced dead two minutes later. forty sim29 NOAH' STALKING YJ-iA 10 -v VV X.

TO AVN. OFF and styles Cs Romenelli MADELINE STUART Reno KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A serial killer who raped and murdered several elderly women has been quietly paroled back to the same neighborhood, and Kansas City police who worked to solve the crimes arc aghast. A jury convicted Vcmon Tatum murder 13 years ago, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But, after exceptionally good behavior in prison and a scries of bureaucratic snafus, he's back on the streets.

Police and prosecutors say they would have loudly objected at Taium's parole hearing, had they known about it. Tatum, who was the subject of one of the most intense police efforts in Kansas City history, could be free by January. Prison and parole officials say it's hot loo late to reverse the decision, but meanwhile Tatum is living at a half-way house near downtown and working at a dry cleaner's administrative office. Tatum declined to be interviewed by The Kansas City Star, which his release in its Wednesday editions. But, police had much to say.

Many officers vividly recalled tailing Tatum around the clock in the early 1980s. "He's one of the most dangerous individuals I've ever dealt with," Police Detective Lester Scott said. "It's very disconcerting to know that a serial killer could be loose," said Larry Schaffer, who prosecuted Tatum. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) The Missouri State Water Patrol' commander says his officers need to be paid more so they won't leave, and cost the state even more to train replacements.

On the average, a water patrol officer with 15 years of service is paid 3 1 percent less than a Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper who has been on the job the same amount of time. Col. Larry Whittcn told a House appropriations committee on 1,. nit auuuiig yay iui wau-i patrol is $24,096, compared with S25.956 for the highway patrol. Whittcn urged the committee to embrace a pay hike of up to 30 percent spread over two years, followed by annual 2 percent longevity increases, "so they won't fall that behind again." The committee will make its recommendations to the House 'Budcct Committee, which will start shaping Missouri's proposed budget the Legislature convenes on Whittcn said he has lost 11 officers and two radio dispatchers difiing the past three years.

Most left KrtoiiPrt tKott moVn mrr ouvaujb li wuutu incuvvv mwiw- Jnoney elsewhere. There are 79 water patrol officers 50 fewer than recommended for Jhe agency in a study a decade ago, he said. The water patrol has jurisdiction over 6,436 miles of lake and riwor rKnralinao i Whitten also said the patrol needs -to replace its fleet of 1 10 patrol and rescue boats during the next five years because "they are worn out" SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) Sp.vp.ral nnhlic schools in Kniithup.st Missouri have canceled classes for trie-remainder of the week because of an outbreak of a flu-like illness. About a quarter or more of stu-; dents in the Hermitage, Wheatland, Dora, Niangua and Hurley school I districts were out sick, so officials decided to call off classes until Monday.

"'vln Sedalia in central Missouri, "about 700 of the district's 4300 students were home sick on Tuesday. "However, Superintendent Bob uni- fri cat1 cKrwlc usniilH rpmoin nrwn until the bue passes or absentee rates reach 20 percent A boys basketball game between Smith-Cotton and Camdenton high schools scheduled for Tuesday night yas rescheduled to Jan. 4 because Smith-Cotton players were ill. "I got a note saying only five memoers oi tne varsity are ten standing," Griffey said. Symptoms included fever, chills upper respiratory infection, which are more indicative of an in- .1 luuimi vuuj muiu uidii UIWUCIU4I, officials said.

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