National Desk
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SOUTH
MALVO GETS LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE
SPOTSYLVANIA, Va. – Teenage sniper Lee Boyd Malvo accepted a deal yesterday in which he avoided the death penalty and was sentenced to life in prison without parole for one of 10 slayings that terrorized the Washington area in October 2002. Malvo, 19, is already serving a life sentence for another one of the killings, and dropped his appeals of that conviction in connection with yesterday’s plea bargain. Malvo could still face a death penalty prosecution for other slayings.
Malvo was sentenced yesterday for the October 11, 2002, killing of businessman Kenneth Bridges. Under the plea deal, he also received an additional life sentence for the shooting of Caroline Seawell on October 4, 2002. She recovered from her wounds. Malvo declined to make a statement before he was sentenced.
– Associated Press
INMATE EXECUTED AFTER REPRIEVE LIFTED
HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A man convicted in a 1992 murder case in which the troubled Houston police crime lab allegedly mishandled evidence was executed last night despite last-minute legal battles and pleas from relatives of the murder victim that his life be spared. The execution was the 18th this year in Texas and the fifth this month.
U.S. District Judge Nancy Atlas had blocked Dominique Green’s execution after his attorneys argued boxes of improperly stored and catalogued evidence kept by the Houston Police Department crime lab and recently discovered could contain information relevant to the case. The reprieve was later lifted by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to grant a last minute stay. “There was a lot of people that got me to this point and I can’t thank them all,” Green said, speaking in a barely audible voice. “I am not angry but I am disappointed that I was denied justice. But I am happy that I was afforded you all as family and friends. I love you all… Please keep my memory alive.”
– Associated Press
WEST
HOTEL OPERATORS REFUSE TO END LOCKOUT
SAN FRANCISCO – Faced with an ultimatum from the mayor, 14 San Francisco hotels refused yesterday to end their four-week lockout of unionized employees.
“We respectfully decline the mayor’s request for a 90-day cooling-off period,” said a spokesman for the hotel operators, Cornell Fowler.
Mayor Gavin Newsom on Monday threatened to call for a boycott of the hotels if they did not agree to allow the 4,000 bellhops, maids, cooks, and other workers to return to their jobs while contract talks continue. Warning that the dispute was tarnishing the city’s image and hurting its workers, Mr. Newsom said he would join the hotel workers on the picket lines and encourage mayors in other cities to play hardball with the properties’ corporate owners.
A spokesman said the mayor would make good on his threat by showing up at the posh St. Francis Hotel yesterday afternoon.
The workers went on strike at four hotels on September 29 and were locked out at 10 others two days later. They agreed to end their strike last Wednesday, but the 14 hotels declared the lockout would continue until a new contract was reached.
– Associated Press