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    Kenneth Foster, Jr. - Texas




    Facts of the Crime:
    Convicted and sentenced to death in the August 15, 1996 murder of Michael LaHood, Jr.

    On the evening of August 14, 1996, Kenneth Foster, Mauriceo Brown, DeWayne Dillard and Julius Steen embarked on a series of armed robberies around San Antonio, beginning with Brown’s announcing he had a gun and asking whether the others wanted to rob people: “I have the strap, do you all want to jack?” The next day, Brown and his accomplices followed a car to the residence of Patrick LaHood, looking to carjack the vehicle. Brown ran up to LaHood, who was standing near his vehicle. A woman who was with LaHood heard Brown demand LaHood’s wallet, money and keys; she saw Brown point a gun at LaHood's face for about two minutes before firing. The woman gave police a description of the assailants. Police arrested the men shortly thereafter.

    Brown’s three accomplices gave written statements to police identifying Brown as the person who fatally shot LaHood. Brown admitted in his statement to police and at trial that he fired the fatal shot. At trial, Brown testified that he approached LaHood to obtain Mary’s telephone number and only drew his weapon when he saw what appeared to be a gun on LaHood. Foster and Brown were tried jointly for capital murder committed in the course of a robbery and they both were sentenced to death. Brown was a well-known member of the violent Crips street gang.

    Brown was executed on July 19, 2006.

    Foster's sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by Governor Perry on August 31, 2007.

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    Spared execution once, Texas prisoner Kenneth Foster could face death penalty again after cellmate's death

    Foster had been the getaway driver, not the triggerman, in a killing that first put him on death row. Former Gov. Rick Perry commuted his death sentence to life in prison in 2007

    Kenneth Foster, a former Texas death row prisoner whose sentence was commuted to life in prison by former Gov. Rick Perry, is being investigated in the death of his cellmate, according to prison officials.

    If prosecuted on murder charges, Foster could end up back on death row.

    On Nov. 6, prison officers at the Telford Unit near Texarkana found Anthony Dominguez unresponsive in his cell “with injuries consistent with a physical altercation,” Robert Hurst, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, told The Texas Tribune on Tuesday. Dominguez was taken to the prison’s medical facility, and paramedics pronounced him dead about 40 minutes after he was found.

    Video footage identified Foster as the man who injured Dominguez, Hurst said. The prison’s law enforcement branch is investigating Dominguez’s death and may suggest potential charges against Foster to the state’s Special Prosecution Unit, which prosecutes crimes in prisons.

    Under Texas law, a prisoner who kills someone while serving a life sentence, or was previously convicted of murder, can be charged with capital murder. Foster has not yet been accused of any crime in Dominguez's death, however. If he is tried for capital murder, it would be up to the district attorney in Bowie County, where Telford prison is located, to decide whether to seek the death penalty, according to Jack Choate, who leads the Special Prosecution Unit.

    "There will be a lot of information to gather and consider before making that decision," he said.

    Foster, 45, is serving a life sentence for his role in the San Antonio murder of Michael LaHood in 1996. Foster was originally sentenced to death, but Perry commuted his sentence hours before he was to be executed in 2007. Foster had not killed LaHood but was instead the getaway driver in a string of robberies, and Perry was concerned that Foster had been tried along with with the triggerman, Mauriceo Brown. Brown was executed in 2006.

    LaHood was the brother of Nico LaHood, a former Bexar County district attorney who is now running for a seat in the Texas House.

    Foster’s commutation has long been spotlighted by those seeking to reform Texas’ death penalty statute that allows accomplices to be sentenced to death.

    The statute, named the law of parties, holds that anyone involved in a crime resulting in death is equally responsible, even if they weren't directly involved in the actual killing. Most notably in death penalty cases, people committing another felony, like robbery, can be convicted and sentenced to death for murder if the jury decides murder “should have been anticipated as a result” of the other crime.

    Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have worked to lessen the responsibility of accomplices for crimes when it comes to the death penalty. This year, the Texas House passed a bill by Rep. Jeff Leach, R-Plano, to limit when accomplices could be sentenced to death. The bill did not move in the more conservative Senate, however, and failed.

    https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11...enneth-foster/
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    Rochelle should seek the death penalty. He’s already on thin ice for the Zachary Salazar and Joshua Lowe crap

    Checked the TDCJ and Foster was only 15 years away from being eligible for parole. He could’ve been a free man by age 60 but it seems he might be headed back to condemned row. What a doofus
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