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    Stephen Dale Barbee - Texas Execution - November 16, 2022


    Lisa Underwood and her son Jayden




    Summary of Offense:

    On February 19, 2005, in Tarrant County, Barbee asphyxiated Lisa Underwood, 34, her unborn child and her son Jayden, 7. Barbee transported their bodies to a wooded area and buried them.

    Barbee was sentenced to death in February 2006.

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    On January 28, 2009, Barbee filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/tex...v00074/183588/

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    EX PARTE STEPHEN DALE BARBEE

    In today's Texas Court of Criminal Appeals orders, Barbee's application for writ of habeas corpus was remanded to the trial court for consideration that he was deprived of due process and a fair trial because his attorneys had a conflict of interest.

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    Texas death row inmate: 'Secret deal' tainted case

    A notorious Texas double murder will be revisited this week when the man condemned to die for the crime seeks a new trial.

    Attorneys for death row inmate Stephen Barbee will argue in state court in Fort Worth starting Wednesday that he received ineffective counsel when he was convicted in 2006 of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son.

    They claim a "secret deal" existed between Barbee's court-appointed attorney, William H. "Bill" Ray, and the presiding judge, Bob Gill, to dispose of cases quickly.

    The proceeding was ordered by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after The Associated Press revealed in 2010 that Gill, unlike other judges, negotiated plea deals himself in probation revocation cases and that many of those cases were handled by Ray.

    http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/...e-2188128.html

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    I doubt that there was a deal. .. and even if there was one - does this deal make his crimes less repellant?

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    Witness: Lawyers wanted guilty plea in death case

    A social worker hired six years ago to help defend a Texas man now on death row says defense attorneys showed him autopsy photos in an effort to get him to plead guilty despite his claim of innocence.

    Amanda Maxwell testified Wednesday in a hearing to determine whether Stephen Barbee should get a new trial over claims that he received ineffective counsel because one of his court-appointed attorneys and the judge had a "secret deal" to dispose of cases quickly.

    Barbee was convicted in 2006 for the killing of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son.

    Maxwell said the "overriding theme" for Barbee's attorneys was getting a guilty plea. She testified the attorneys found their client "disgusting" because he cried.

    The hearing is expected to last two days.

    http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?se...ate&id=8553970

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    Judge says Barbee should not get a new trial

    FORT WORTH -- Stephen Barbee, an inmate on Death Row for the 2005 smothering deaths of a pregnant woman and her 7-year-old son, should not get a new trial, a state district judge has determined.

    Barbee had appealed his conviction for the deaths of Lisa Underwood, who was seven months pregnant, and her young son, Jayden.

    His appellate attorneys had argued that Barbee was deprived a fair trial between of a "secret deal" between Barbee's trial attorney, Billy Ray, and then-state District Judge Bob Gill.

    They contended that Gill frequently appointed Ray to handle parole-revocation cases in which the judge tried to negotiate plea deals with the defendants to keep the cases moving more quickly through his docket.

    That arrangement, the attorneys said, created a conflict of interest that affected how the defense attorneys represented Barbee.

    During a two-day evidentiary hearing on the matter before state District Judge Louis Sturns in February, Gill, Ray and co-defense counsel Tim Moore denied any conflict.

    In an order filed Tuesday, Sturns states he will recommend to the Court of Criminal Appeals that Barbee be "denied relief on his conflict of interest claim."

    Prosecutors have said Barbee killed Underwood because he believed that he was the father of her unborn child and was concerned that Underwood would tell his new wife about their relationship. DNA tests later showed that he was not the father.

    He was convicted of capital murder in the case and sentenced to death in February 2006.

    http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/08...d-not-get.html

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    EX PARTE STEPHEN DALE BARTEE

    In today's Texas Court of Criminal Appeals orders, Barbee's subsequent application for habeas relief was DENIED.
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    Convicted killer of mom, child, loses appeal

    The state's highest criminal appeals court has upheld a lower court's ruling rejecting an appeal for a Fort Worth man sent to death row for killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son eight years ago.

    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday denied an appeal from 46-year-old Stephen Barbee. He was condemned for the February 2005 suffocations of Lisa Underwood and her son, Jayden, at their home in Fort Worth. Both were found buried in a shallow grave in nearby Denton County.

    Prosecutors said Barbee didn't want his wife of four months to know that Underwood was seven months pregnant, presumably by him. But DNA evidence at his 2006 trial revealed Barbee wasn't the father.

    Barbee doesn't have an execution date.

    http://www.khou.com/news/national/206607921.html
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    Death Row Inmate Closer to Execution for Murder of Wichita Falls Woman

    A death row inmate is now closer to getting an execution date set for the murders of a pregnant Wichita Falls woman and her 7-year-old son in 2005.

    Stephen Barbee, now 46, has lost his final state appeal for the suffocation deaths of 34-year-old Lisa Underwood and her son Jayden in their Fort Worth home.

    Underwood grew up in Wichita Falls and attended Rider High School. Prosecutors allege Barbee did not want his wife to find out Underwood was pregnant with his son, though DNA tests later proved Barbee was not the baby's father.

    She was reported missing the day before friends were giving her a baby shower, and authorities say Barbee led them to their bodies in a shallow grave in Denton County.

    Barbee appealed his death sentence, on grounds he did not receive a fair trial because of a secret deal between his attorney and the trial judge.

    The lower court ruled against the appeal, and now the state court of criminal appeals has affirmed that ruling.

    An execution date will be set by the trial court, unless attorneys file habeas corpus appeals and then attorneys have federal avenues of appeals still to pursue.

    http://texomashomepage.com/fulltext?nxd_id=279812
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