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    Charles Milton - Texas Execution - June 25 , 1985




    Summary of Offense: Mr. Milton was sentenced to death for the slaying in 1977 of Menaree Denton, a liquor store owner who was shot in the heart while she and her husband, Leonard, struggled with Mr. Milton in an aborted robbery.

    Victim: Manaree Denton

    Time of Death: 1:33 a.m.

    Manner of execution: Lethal Injection

    Last Meal: T-bone steak, french fries, tossed salad with French dressing, catsup, hot rolls and chocolate cake

    Final Statement: "There’s no God but Allah, and unto thy I belong and unto thy I return. I want to continue to tell my brothers and sisters to be strong."

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    June 26, 1985

    TWO MEN CONVICTED OF MURDER ARE EXECUTED IN VIRGINIA AND TEXAS

    By the Associated Press

    Two men convicted of murder in separate slayings were executed yesterday in Virginia and Texas.

    Morris Odell Mason, who was mentally retarded, was executed in Virginia last night for raping and murdering an elderly woman and then setting her house on fire during a crime spree.

    Mr. Mason's execution was the 14th in the United States in 1985 and the 46th since the Supreme Court cleared the way for renewed application of the death penalty in 1976.

    Earlier in the day, Charles Milton, convicted of murdering a liquor store owner in a robbery in Fort Worth, Tex., was executed by lethal injection after last-minute appeals to Gov. Mark White of Texas and the United States Supreme Court failed.

    Mr. Mason's execution in Virginia's electric chair was the state's third in eight months and fourth since 1976.

    He was pronounced dead at 11:07 P.M., said Kathi King, an operations officer at the State Penitentiary in Richmond, Va. Mr. Mason gave no final statement.

    ''He appeared calm,'' the operations officer said. ''He walked on his own and required no assistance.''

    Hours before Mr. Mason was executed, the Supreme Court, by a 7-to-2 vote, turned down his appeal.

    Mental Condition Cited

    Gov. Charles S. Robb of Virginia, who met with a group of clergymen asking clemency for Mr. Mason, said he did not intend to issue a reprieve.

    Mr. Mason's lawyer, J. Lloyd Snook, had argued in appeals that Mr. Mason's mental condition was not adequately brought out at his trial and that his mental impairment made the death sentence inappropriate.

    Mr. Mason, 32 years old, was sentenced to death for the slaying of Margaret K. Hand, 71, of rural Northampton County. She was raped and beaten with an ax; her hand was nailed to a chair and her house was set on fire.

    The slaying was part of a two-week crime spree waged by Mr. Mason less than a month after he was paroled from prison where he had been sentenced to 10 years for arson and grand larceny.

    He also confessed to raping and murdering an 86-year-old woman, raping and sodomizing a 12-year-old girl and shooting her 13-year-old sister, who was left a paraplegic.

    Texas Inmate's Final Statement


    In a final statement before being executed in Texas, Charles Milton, prayed to Allah. He had converted to Islam while in prison in Huntsville, Tex.

    Mr. Milton was sentenced to death for the slaying eight years ago of Menaree Denton, a liquor store owner who was shot in the heart while she and her husband, Leonard, struggled with Mr. Milton in an aborted robbery.

    Defense attorneys said the shooting was an accident.

    Attempts to get a reprieve ended at 1 A.M. with word that the Supreme Court had refused to act.

    Mr. Milton, 34 years old, was pronounced dead at 1:33 A.M., becoming the fourth Texas inmate this year and eighth to be executed since the state resumed the death penalty in 1982.

    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...55C0A963948260

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