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Volume 77 Number 22
Jury sentences Clayton to death
By JONATHAN WITT
Senior Staff Writer
James Edward Clayton was sentenc-
ed Friday to die.
Clayton's case will receive an
automatic appeal to the Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals but
prosecuting attorney Mike Watson
said the court would not hear the
case for at least a year. Watson said
he would continue to prosecute the
case.
Defense attorney Ken Leggett
said he and Clayton's other lawyer
Bobby Clark probably will remain
on the case to its end.
Leggett said he and Clark will
appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme
Court if necessary.
The jury entered the 104th
District courtroom shortly before 6
.m. Friday. None of the jurors
ooked at Clayton as they took their
seats. The women jurors appeared
to have been crying; two still were
crying.
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Satan followers abundant
By AMANDA APPLETON
Friday Copy Editor
Satanic cults flourish in Texas said
Lacy Sloan at the "Cults and
Satanism" lecture series sponsored
by the Abilene Coordinating Coun-
cil Thursday
The United States contains more
than 300000 Satanbts with the
majority divided among Texas
California New York New Jersey
end the New England states said
Sloan director of sexual assault at
Hays County Women's Center in
San Marcos.
Society cannot ignore Satanism
Sloan said.
"It is not necessary for us to be-
lieve hi Satan as long as there are
those in our community who do
and who pattern their behavior on
satanic beliefs" she said.
Vivian Miles director of the
Texas Association Against Sexual
Assault division of the Department
of Health and Human Services and
Dr. David Lewis instructor of Bi-
ble also spoke at the seminar.
The speakers described Satanism
The jury answered affirmatively
to the two questions it had deliber-
ated over for more than three hours:
Clayton murdered Lori Michelle
Barrett intentionally and he does
pose a continuing threat to society.
Consequently Judge Billy John
Edwards was forced to tell Clayton
"You will die by intravenous injec-
tion." Although Clayton showed little
emotion he still showed more than
he had shown at any other time dur-
ing the trial. His arms locked he
leaned against the table with his
hands and bowed his head.
When the crowd began to notice
the rare flicker of emotion Clayton
clicked back into the stoic pose he
had maintained since the trial
began.
The jury considered psychiatric
testimony and testimony from
Clayton's close friends from Bolls
Children's Home near Quinlin.
Clayton began living there in the
seventh grade.
and the victimization included in
satanic rituals.
Satanists Sloan said "are against
anything that is pure and innocent.
All those things that Christ loved
are what they want to defile."
Satanism in the
Sloan explained the types of Satan
worshipers dividing them into
three categories: dabblers who ex-
periment with the religion on a
fun-and-games level; self-stylers
who use satanic beliefs to fulfill
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Psychiatrist James Grigson said
"Most certainly not probably but
absolutely certainly he will be in-
volved in criminal acts and present
a threat to whatever society he's
in."
Both psychiatrists said Clayton is
a sociopath.
But those who knew Clayton dur-
ing his junior high and high school
days presented a very different view
of the 21 -year-old man.
ACU student Paige Morgan
whose father worked for Bolls
Children's Home told the jury she
had become best friends with
Clayton after he entered the home
in seventh grade.
Clark asked her if she trusted
Clayton with her life and she said
"Yes I do."
Morgan said Clayton usually ini-
tiated the breakup of arguments
when he played pick-up basketball
at ACU. He was sort of a peace-
maker most of the time" she said.
Leggett said he and Clark will
zoo Saturday afternoon as part
program.
their own needs; and sophisticated
believers who participate in formal
rituals and brainwashing.
Sloan said participants in self-
styled Satan worship frequently are
violent even to the point of becom-
United States
Estates with a
high occurrence
of Satanism
ing serial killers.
Sophisticated believers tend to
belong to respectable societal
groups and churches thus protec-
ting themselves from suspicion.
Lee Reed a youth officer in the
argue several key points at the ap-
peals level: the court should have
granted a change of venue because
the media saturated the public with
the story; the trial should have been
in Jones County because the body
was found there; the prosecution
failed to prove that Barrett was
shot as stated in the indictment
rather than strangled or asphyxi-
ated; failure of the judge to properly
instruct jury concerning the
mitigating evidence of Clayton's
rough early childhood his father
abandoned him and then his
mother left him when he was in
seventh grade.
The last point could set a
Supreme Court precedent Leggett
said. The Court has ruled on a simi-
lar case with more extreme
mitigating evidence and one with
milder mitigating evidence and is
looking for a case in the middle
Leggett said.
But Watson said he sees no
mitigating circumstances.
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Abilene Police Department said
dabblers can be as dangerous as the
other two groups though on the
surface dabblers do not seem as
menacing.
"Dabblers can go from fun and
games to the crime element in one
night" he said.
Satan worship itself is not against
the law because the First Amend-
ment protects freedom of religion
Reed said.
Police forces can do nothing with
regard to Satanism unless criminal
acts are involved he said.
Some Satan worship is practiced
in Abilene but rumors far exceed
reality Reed said.
These rumors include the tales
about the Drake Hotel and other
vacant buildings in downtown
Abilene.
Most Satan worship in Abilene is
confined to dabbling he said.
Reed said he frequently speaks to
the community about Satanism and
its repercussions on society; he not
the APD covers the costs.
"I'm a Christian and I believe we
should stop this" he said.
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Former ACU student James Edward Clayton Is led out of the court-
house after the jury sentenced him to death late Friday afternoon.
Voter turnout
record high
More Texans cast votes earjy
From wire reports
Texans by the thousands began
casting votes early in today's
presidential election.
The state Election Board had
estimated nearly 6 million Texans
would vote and in some precincts
long lines indicated the prediction
of big voter turnout was being
borne out.
Absentee voting for Tuesday's
general election showed record tur-
nouts by Taylor County residents.
A new absentee voting law went in-
to effect in the spring of 1988 allow-
ing all registered voters to vote
absentee.
In Taylor County the old record
of 6132 absentee voters set in
1984 was beaten with 10695 peo-
ple placing their absentee votes
said Jo Cook assistant elections
administrator.
Friday 1342 people voted at the
'89 campaign
locations set
By KEVIN MILLER
Optimist Stoff
Spring Break Campaign prepara-
tions began with the selection of
Scott Sewell as the Spring Break
Campaign director. Three of the
campaigns have been confirmed
with leaders and locations. The
other campaigns do not have
definite leaders with locations.
About 20 campaigns with 15 to
20 students in each campaign will
be conducted this year said Sewell
senior marketing major from
Florence Ala.
The three confirmed campaigns
T-shirts honor whales
By LOREN HALIFAX
Optimist Staff
T-shirts commemorating the
whales' rescue in Alaska will be sent
to President Reagan and Soviet
Union general secretary Mikhail
Gorbachev next week by the Public
Relations Students Society of
America.
"We thought this would be a
good way to encourage the bond be-
tween the United States and
Russia" said Stephanie Smith
PRSSA treasurer.
The ACU chapter is selling the
T-shirts and sweat shirts as its
fund-raising activity for the year
said Smith senior public relations
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courthouse making a total of 8246
in-person votes she said.
Traditionally student turnout has
been extremely low during absentee
and general elections said Dr. Mel
Hailey chairman of the Political
Science Department.
The GOP has made steady gains
in the once solidly Democratic
Cameron County where Ronald
Reagan took 52 percent of the vote
in 1984 and a 29-year-old attorney
named Tony Garza threatened in
today's election to become the first
Republican county judge.
In North Texas at First Christian
Church in McKinney a poll wat-
cher said the line of voters had been
steady but not long and there was
no waiting period.
In Lufkin Angelina County
Clerk Pauline Grisham said she ex-
pected as many as 60 percent of all
registered voters would come to the
polls.
are: the Long Beach Calif cam-
paign led by Mitchell Wilburn
junior Bibleyouth ministry major
from Dallas; the Seattle campaign
led by Chris Flanders senior Bible
major from Duluth Minn.; and the
St. Louis campaign led by Todd
Parrish junior management major
from Alvin.
Locations not yet with leaders are
Chicago; Denver; Middletown
Conn.; Philadelphia; Portland
Ore.; San Francisco; Seattle;
Greenville S.C.; and West Haven
Mo.
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major from Titusvillc Fla.
PRSSA members also plan to
keep reporting on the whales' activi-
ties Smith said. "We don't want
this to be a story people never hear
about again" she said.
Sales for the shirts have skyrock-
eted and the society has had more
than 300 phone orders for shirts in
Texas she said. "We'll be selling
them in Texas first and we've also
contacted a newspaper in An-
chorage Alaska about them"
Smith said.
In Abilene the shirts will be avail-
able only on campus she said. 1
Profits from those shirts sold on
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