The Nation - News from March 2, 1988

Jurors in Houston, Tex., began deliberations in the $22.5-million suit filed against Soldier of Fortune magazine by relatives of Sandra Black, who was killed by a hit man hired through an ad in the magazine. Jurors deliberated 2 1/2 hours before retiring for the night. Black was shot in Bryan, Tex., in 1985 by John Wayne Hearn, who was hired by her husband through the ad. Robert Black was convicted in the murder-for-hire and is on Texas’ Death Row. Hearn was sentenced to life and is also serving two life terms in Florida for other killings.