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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1985
Page
3
Thirteen year old Birdie Africa says MOVE members tried to flee the burning rowhouse twice but were driven back inside by gunfire. The account clashes with police statements that no shots were fired in the alley behind the MOVE compound on May 13.
In Virginia Morris Odell Mason, 32, calmly faced execution by electric chair after failed appeals. The case followed a 1978 crime spree and involved a prison death chamber process four hours after a Supreme Court denial. Mason made no statement. In Alabama a federal appeals court allows Klan evidence from a bloody clash with black demonstrators to be used in potential criminal charges.
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