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

DATE: MONDAY, February 1, 1993                   TAG: 9302010111
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: BRISTOL                                LENGTH: Short

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KILLER ASKS FOR STAY OF EXECUTION

Mickey Wayne Davidson changed his mind Sunday evening and requested a stay of his scheduled Wednesday execution in order that he may pursue his appeals, his attorney said.

"He called about 9:45 p.m. this evening during the Super Bowl to say he wanted to reinstitute his motion for a stay," Anthony Anderson said.

Saturday, Davidson asked Anderson to suspend the appeals and not block the scheduled execution for the murder of his wife and two stepdaughters. At the time, Anderson said Davidson preferred execution in the electric chair to any further time in prison.

A judge was to determine today whether Davidson was competent to make the decision to withdraw his appeals.

"I guess I'll pop this on the judge tomorrow morning when we are scheduled for the hearing," Anderson said Sunday.

Davidson was convicted in July 1991 after admitting killing his wife, Doris Davidson, 36, and his two stepdaughters, Mamie Clatterbuck, 14, and Tammy Clatterbuck, 13. Davidson bludgeoned them to death with a crowbar at the family's Saltville home June 13, 1990.

Anderson said Davidson is at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt awaiting execution.

Originally, Davidson had said he would not appeal his case. Davidson pleaded guilty to the murders, saying he had killed the three because his wife was planning to leave him. But he first requested a stay of execution last month.

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