And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) >Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 23:00:26 +0100 >To: Chris Spotted Eagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Lulu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Elsie Herten/KOLA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: Celine - CSIA/LPSG-France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: FYI : Randy Reeves, Omaha prisoner on death row > >From: Nebraskans Against the Death Penalty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Nebraska: Family Lobbies for Killer > >Published Friday, December 11, 1998 > >The story was copied from the following URL: >http://omaha.com/OWH/StoryView/1%2C1344%2C74204%2C00.html > >Please circulate and call for action. > > >BY ROBYNN TYSVER > >WORLD-HERALD BUREAU > >Lincoln - The daughter and husband of the pregnant woman stabbed to death >by Randolph Reeves in 1980 have a message for Nebraskans: Don't execute >Reeves on our behalf. > >Gus Lamm, 48, and his daughter, Audrey Lamm, 21, of Portland, Ore., flew >into Lincoln on Thursday for a three-day lobbying blitz to try to persuade >state officials to spare Reeves' life. Reeves is scheduled to be executed >Jan. 14. > >"It pains me to think that in some indirect way, my mother's death could >cause another man to lose his life. You know, two wrongs don't make a >right,"Audrey Lamm said. > >Audrey Lamm was a toddler and asleep when her mother, Victoria Lamm, 28, >was stabbed to death in a nearby room at a Quaker Friends Meeting Hall in >Lincoln. At the time, Lamm was 15 weeks pregnant and had returned to >Nebraska from her home in Oregon to visit family and friends. She and >Audrey, then 2, were staying overnight with Janet Mesner, 30, the caretaker >of the Quaker church and a close college friend. > >Victoria Lamm was scheduled to fly back to Oregon the next day to be with >her husband of three years. But in those pre-dawn hours of March 29, 1980, >her plans were tragically altered when she awoke to investigate noises >coming from Mesner's room. Prosecutors said Reeves, who was raping or >attempting to rape Mesner at the time, stabbed Lamm to death to conceal his >identity. He then stabbed Mesner seven times. > >Mesner managed to telephone police and identify her attacker - a family >friend from her hometown of Central City, Neb. - before her death three >hours later. The Mesner and Reeves families were Quakers and attended the >same church in Central City. > >"I came back here because there's a life in balance," Gus Lamm said. >"There's a man's life at stake. His death is going to serve no purpose but >to spread a lot of misery to a lot of people." > >Lamm said his late wife also would have opposed Reeves' death. She was a >pacifist, he said, who cared about people. > >A mental health therapist, Gus Lamm said the state should consider the >mitigating circumstances surrounding the murders. Reeves, who was 24 at the >time, was not in control that night because of the combined effects of >alcohol and peyote, Lamm said. > >At the trial, one witness testified that Reeves' blood-alcohol level could >have been 0.20 percent or higher. In Nebraska, 0.10 percent is legally >drunk for driving purposes. > >"If I have an individual who is psychotic and strikes out at me, I'm not >going to hold him accountable," Gus Lamm said. > >In addition, he said it's important to remember that Reeves also lost his >life that night. "I've had 18 years of sunsets and golf, and Randy has had >a box," he said. His daughter added, "And 18 years to think about what he >did every day of his life." > >The Lamms are the latest family members of the two women to step forward in >opposition to the execution. Mesner's parents, Kenneth and Mildred Mesner, >have testified at legislative hearings in opposition to the death penalty. > >As the execution date looms, the Mesner family is having a harder time >understanding the state's "obsession" with capital punishment, Kenneth >Mesner said. "It's hard to believe that the state won't take into >consideration our feelings about it," the Central City man said. > >One family member, Victoria Lamm's father, has indicated support for the >death penalty in the past in conversations with family members. However, Al >Zessin of Republican City, Neb., could not be reached for comment Thursday >night. > >Gus Lamm and his daughter hope to meet with members of the Nebraska Board >of Pardons during their visit to Nebraska. At least one member of the >board, Attorney General Don Stenberg, will meet with the Lamms. The two >other members of the board are Gov. Ben Nelson and Secretary of State Scott >Moore. > >The Lamms hope the board will grant Reeves a chance to argue for his life >at a pardons hearing. The two realize it's an uphill battle. The pardons >board has been steadfast in the belief that death sentences should be >carried out. Of the three men killed since Nebraska resumed executions in >1994, only one has been granted a pardons hearing and he - Harold LaMont >Otey - did not win a reprieve from the state's electric chair. > >"I think I would be satisfied with the sentence being commuted to life," >Gus Lamm said. > > >=A9 Copyright 1998 Omaha World-Herald Company. All rights reserved. > >Please send letters asking for a clemency hearing to each member of the >Nebraska Board of Pardons: > >Governor-Elect Mike Johanns* >State Capitol >PO Box 94848 >Lincoln, NE 68509-4848 > >402-471-2244; Fax: 471-6031 > >Scott Moore, Secretary of State >State Capitol >Suite 2300 >Lincoln, NE 68509 > >402-471-2554; Fax: 471-3237 > >Don Stenberg , Attorney General >State Capitol, Room 2115 >P.O. Box 98920 >Lincoln, NE 68509-8920 > >402-471-2455; Fax: 471-3297 > >* New governor, takes office January 7th. > >For more information, please check: http://nadp.inetnebr.com >Or e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >NADP: 402-474-6575 > <<<<=-=-=FREE LEONARD PELTIER=-=-=>>>> If you think you are too small to make a difference; try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito.... African Proverb <<<<=-=http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ =-=>>>> IF it says: "PASS THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW...." Please Check it before you send it at: http://urbanlegends.miningco.com/library/blhoax.htm
