
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 18, 1990                   TAG: 9007180563
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-5   EDITION: EVENING 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: RICHMOND                                LENGTH: Short

WILDER WAITING BEFORE DECIDING ON CLEMENCY

Gov. Douglas Wilder said today he will wait until attorneys for condemned murderer Richard Boggs exhaust their appeals before deciding whether to allow Boggs to be executed Thursday night.

"I'm going to wait until all legal avenues have been foreclosed," Wilder told reporters.

Boggs' lawyers asked Wilder last week to grant clemency to the Portsmouth man, who was sentenced to death for the robbery and and murder of his neighbor, Treeby Shaw, 87. Wilder could commute Boggs' sentence to life in prison but no other Virginia governor in modern times has ever taken that step to block an execution.

by CNB