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Aiken Standard

Location

Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America

Date

Feb 23, 1996

Page

5

Online genealogy chat aids Scottish minister stroke scare

Boston area computer user Richard Eastman helped a Scotland minister, Rev Kenneth J Walker of Arbroath, after noticing he was incoherent in a weekly genealogy forum on CompuServe. Eastman traced the address, called emergency services, and the minister spent hours in hospital with unclear cause but possible life threatening episodes.

Boston Richard Eastman Scotland Eastman Kenneth J. Walker Arbroath Walker Genealogy Forum CompuServe Billerica United States Canada Australia Aurse New York Ken

Man Freed After 18 Years In Prison

ALBUQUERQUE N M A man freed after 18 years and three trials in the shotgun slayings of Leslie McDonnell and Cari Alton near Willard. Stump Smith 42 left prison after a prosecutor declined a fourth trial. He plans to sue the state. District Attorney Bob Schwartz cited blurred memories and missing evidence as reasons a conviction was unlikely.

Albuquerque N.M Um “Stump” Smith Leslie McDonnell Carialton Wil Smith Bob Schwartz

Ruling Against Gas Executions Upheld

A federal appeals court upheld a 1994 ruling that California’s gas chamber violates the Eighth Amendment by causing prolonged pain. The decision requires future executions by lethal injection, while Gov. Pete Wilson criticized the ruling as shortsighted and called for further appeal.

San Francisco California Pete Wilson Wilson U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals U.S Michael Laurence American Civil Liberties Union

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