Subj : Re: Fort Worth gang member executed for murder of girl, grandmother To : All From : oldn07@comcast.net Date : Sun Apr 29 2018 08:01:36 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september ..org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: " Archbishop Don Kool - A National Treasure, Making America Great Again!" Newsgroups: misc.immigration.usa,alt.activism.death-penalty,dfw.general,alt.politics.democr ats,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.guns Subject: Re: Fort Worth gang member executed for murder of girl, grandmother Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 10:01:36 -0400 Organization: Christ our Lord Lines: 103 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2018 14:01:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="473eb36636c8038c3bd3372181216ee9"; logging-data="21068"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19rXrWA8IhEffjXMk3pWOtx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.7.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Cancel-Lock: sha1:j2zGdOsso6R5rTvXBYLeVFuY10s= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org misc.immigration.usa:20983 alt.activism.death-penalty:146070 dfw.general:12362 alt.politics.democrats:670352 alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:2172796 talk.politics.guns:1136655 On 4/28/2018 3:29 PM, Leroy N. Soetoro wrote: > http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/04/25/fort-worth-gang-member-to-die-for- > killing-girl- > grandmother.html?intcmp=ob_article_sidebar_video&intcmp=obnetwork > > HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A prisoner on Texas death row for killing a 5-year- > old girl and her grandmother in a gang-related shooting at a child's > birthday party in Fort Worth a decade ago was executed Wednesday evening. > Erick Davila received lethal injection for using a laser-sighted semi- > automatic rifle to spray bullets at about 20 people -- more than a dozen > of them children. Annette Stevenson, 48, and her granddaughter, Queshawn > Stevenson, were killed and four others were wounded, including the girl > who was celebrating her 9th birthday. > > Davila, 31, belted to a gurney in the Texas death chamber, offered no > apologies. He appeared almost cocky as several relatives of his victims > entered the witness area of the death chamber, raising his head off the > gurney and acknowledging some that he appeared to know. > > "I may have lost the fight but I'm still a soldier," he said when asked by > the warden if he wanted to make a statement. "Take it as it is. To my > supporters and family, y'all hold it down. Ten toes down. That's all I got > to say." > > He was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m. CDT, 14 minutes after the lethal dose > of the powerful sedative pentobarbital was administered. Davila was the > ninth prisoner executed in the U.S. this year, five of them in Texas. > > Authorities said the April 6, 2008, attack was in apparent retaliation for > a previous run-in Davila had with the slain girl's father, who was > attending the party. > > The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal from Davila's lawyers about 30 > minutes before the punishment was carried out. > > "We don't know what is going to come out of a person's mouth when they're > on death row," Tyron Shaw, whose aunt and cousin were killed in the > gunfire, said after watching Davila die. "The damage has been done. ... As > I told my family, you just expect the best and prepare for the worst. > > "We know that justice has been served, justice has been done. This is > something that we would continue to deal with the rest of our lives. We > would never get over it. We would never forget it, but we can cope a > little bit better." > > Queshawn Stevenson's sister, then, testified she saw a man inside a dark > car holding a gun with "a red dot," and a short time later saw him > standing next door and shoot. Davila was caught the next day after a brief > police chase. > > Davila's attorneys argued to the Supreme Court that his execution should > be stopped because it was improper for his trial judge, Sharen Wilson, now > the Tarrant County district attorney, to request an execution date. They > also questioned the role of a lawyer working with Wilson on capital > appeals cases who had represented Davila in an earlier appeal. > > Prosecutors withheld information that Davila was so high on drugs during > the shooting that he was "likely intoxicated to the degree that it would > have rendered him temporarily insane," lawyer Seth Kretzer told the high > court in a filing. He argued that could have influenced jurors to decide > on a lesser penalty, and questioned the constitutionality of how Texas > juries decide death sentences. > > State attorneys said Wilson never represented Davila, and state law and > court rulings allow her office to represent the state's interests in the > case. Prosecutors also argued that Wilson prohibits assistants from > participating in cases where they were defense lawyers and that courts > have upheld the state's capital sentencing procedure. > > They said evidence shows Davila's trial attorneys properly were provided > notes from police investigators, that voluntary intoxication is not a > defense under Texas law and that the shootings were intentional and > deliberate. Katherine Hayes, an assistant Texas attorney general, told the > justices that Davila told detectives he went "to a shoot `em up," was > trying to "get the guys on the porch" and never mentioned any intoxication > to police. > > Defense lawyers at Davila's trial tried to show he didn't intend to kill > multiple people, a criterion for the capital murder charge. They argued he > instead only intended to kill Jerry Stevenson, whose daughter and mother > were shot to death. Authorities said Stevenson belonged to a rival gang > and that Davila believed members of that gang shot him in 2005. Stevenson > denied belonging to the gang. > > Davila was accused but not tried in another fatal shooting just days > before the birthday party slayings. While awaiting trial for capital > murder, he also attacked Tarrant County jailers and maintenance workers > during an escape attempt. He previously served prison time for a 2004 > burglary in Tarrant County and was released after about a year. > > Justice was served with his one way ticket to Hell. > -- Try God! Don See you in church. Shoot straight, not fast. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .