Show I il iI I J I t 1 DEATH PENALTY f i i FOR SIX RIDERS RIDER S Ii Two Get Off With Terms of ofu d I u II I Twenty Tw nty Years in n the th Ten Tennessee TenI PI I m ii Penitentiary P I l If c MEN REFUSED REFUS D NEW EW TRIAL 4 ti J SOLEMN SCENE WHEN WH N COURT J tit PASSED PA S D SENTENCE I j 1 ji f Union n City CIt Tenn Term Jan Tan 9 Judge 5 It Jonee Jones today Imposed sed the death penalty ii Fit on Garrett Johnson TM rid Burton Bob Fred Pineon Arthur Clear Cloar i I l and all Sam Applewhite the night riders 1 K who were found guilty of th tha murder i j 4 of ot Captain Quentin Ranken and sen sentenced en f 4 I i tenc lene d Bud and Bob Huffman H the th other defendants defendant to twenty 1 y oars ars The attorneys i for fr the defendants gave notice of an anI I 1 4 appeal to the state supreme court If It 1 I H t this tribunal docs 1005 not net Interfere the ther r first named six will wm be hanged banged on f 4 Fob 19 13 i Ii tj New Trial Refused t t i In IR applying p fo to Judge lUIa today for fora forc c ft t It t Ii a new trial the defense d fenee attacked the f i 1 it i competency tenC of Jurors Juron and andi i 1 Dahnke D asserting that they had ex ox expressed i i I pressed opinions as to the guilt of the fir 1 f defendants After Arrer having heard the thel r l testimony ny of ot three witnesses wit Intro Introduced ti I I dUc d by the defense in their effort to I I that Juror McKInney y had ex expressed exi d i pressed r re d an opinion aa na to tho the guilt gunt of I JI their convicted ted men nen the state proved UT l bY y the he members of the jury that he In Insisted n nI I MIMed on mitigating circumstances being included in the verdict I The contentions In regard to Jurors I Ros RoOn on and Dahnke wore were later with withdrawn withdrawn i drawn and the Cor a new trial i was quickly overruled oer t I Judge Jones Tones listened attentively attentive to toi i c the testimony tc and at the conclusion i said Mid the court was firmly finnly of the opinion f that all the evidence Introduced At the theS S trial tria was competent Judge Jones Tones eon con continued oiL j t I i it e I said some som time ago to the grand I 4 I I jury ju that It was as a sad ad sad day when II t thee theco men men left their quiet homes Jomes that t f I 1 I Ir their wives had not taken them around f tilt tho neck and pleaded with them for forI I God Ahr sake Mke to stop and not notI l I band themselves together for such un unholy unI I holy acts that the evidence ee in hi this case a Is IB bristling with perjury and the Jury jn I f j Ii r j returned into this court a verdict I Fi against Bud Morris and Bob Huffman H of ot murder in the tile second degree e which J I must stand f t ji A i The jury has also returned a ver verdict er I 1 1 diet dict in the first degree against six nix of I I ij the tho defendants and in view vie of the T I 1 h f manner in which h the lire life of Quentin Ranken Banken was taken I can an see geo no miti mitigating mitigating I j gating circumstances In their crime It F U was not done In the heat of passion passionI I I f and has baa none of the elements of ot miti mit mitigating L 1 gating circumstances and that tha that part of i I 1 the tho verdict wilt will be disregarded II 5 t i I i After Altel a n moments breathless silence t 1 ii the th court said f t Bud Moms you will stand UD un It itI j k II I 4 I Is Judgment that thit tb t you be incarcerated rated In the penitentiary p for twenty years and an be deprived of your rights of trap fran franchise chise Bob Huffman next received the same saml sentence JUdge Jones TOnes after a pause contin continued continued ned Garrett arrett Johnson you ou have been tried on a charge of murder In the first degree A motion for a new trial is overruled by b the IM t rL II n ia is c r d dand and the judgment of f U tH Ha court Is that hat you OU will be remanded rethard reri d td Jail until util Fri Friday Friday FrIday day the 6 f February Fe ry 1969 19 when ih ich h hyou you OU will wili by the sheriff of this county count be hanged bj bt b the th neck fleck until yd are lire dead arid and may mAt ni dod clod have mercy f ercy on your our The same Judgment was pronounced pronoun ed oH oil tn tM th remaining rim live five I Vl defendant a dM t con d of l first iU gr dt t MIend pt pr In l tile tHe ourt court courtroom room during the pronouncing t f the sentences The Th defendants each tach in turn arose pale and worn and heard the words of at Judge Jones The court directed the sheriff to see sec that the defendants be carefully looked after aUer and a proper guard be supplied |