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    James C. Magee - Louisiana


    Adrienne Magee, 28, and son, Zach, 5




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    Convicted and sentenced to death for the shooting deaths of his 28-year-old wife Adrienne and their five-year-old son Zach on April 18, 2007 in the Tall Timbers subdivision north of Mandeviile. He was also convicted of attempting to kill their other children, daughters Ashleigh, then eight, and Aleisha, then seven.

    Magee was sentenced to death on August 10, 2009.

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    Man, convicted of killing wife and son, sentenced to death

    NEW ORLEANS – Adrienne Magee’s family walked out of the St. Tammany Parish Justice Center this evening saying justice was served, but there was no triumphant reaction in court.

    “This was no time to be joyful. He’s got a mother and family behind him,” said family member Charlie Ingram. “What we want to do is go forward with taking care of the girls, making sure that their life is one that they will be happy with.”

    The prosecution argued that James Magee planned the killing in advance and that he wanted to kill more people than just his wife, Adrienne, and son, Zach.

    “We thought about this. We’re both parents and Adrienne Magee spent her last seconds on earth fighting to save her kids, so we we’re just honored to give a voice to her and we think the jury’s verdict recognizes that her struggle was not for nothing,” said Scott Gardner, St Tammany assistant district attorney.

    “I think it was pretty well expected,” said James Magee’s attorney, Bill Alford. “This is one of the most tragic cases I’ve ever been involved with. It was a tragedy all around.”

    Gardner said: “It’s awful anytime you have to look at pictures like that and recognize what that lady and kids went through.”

    St. Tammany Parish Sherriff Jack Strain said that the facts determined this verdict.

    “I’ve seen many since and before then, and this is about as bad as it gets,” Strain said. “And I think that was presented to the jury and when they considered all of the evidence and you look at the facts I believe it is certainly a fitting case for the death penalty.”

    Adrienne Magee’s family said their attention now turns to the two surviving daughters.

    “On the surface they’re doing fine; they look happy, they’re healthy. Underneath, not so good, not doing very good at all, especially right now, and we’re doing the best we can right now,” Sandy Ingram, victims family member.

    After the trial James Magee was taken back to the St. Tammany jail until the official sentencing on Nov. 30.

    James Magee chose not to testify on his behalf.

    http://www.wwltv.com/topstories/stor...ling.2326ba449

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    January 5, 2010

    Convicted murderer sentenced again

    A Pearl River-area man, already sentenced to die for killing his estranged wife and 5-year-old son in 2007, has been sentenced to 2 50-year jail terms for the attempted murder of his 2 daughters.

    A 12-member, St. Tammany Parish jury convicted James Magee in October for the killings and attempted first-degree murders of his daughters Ashleigh, then 8, and Aleisha, then 7. Witnesses testified that he chased his wife's car, ramming it until she crashed into a tree. He then began shooting. That jury decided on the death penalty.

    The Times-Picayune reported that state Judge William Knight formally sentenced Magee on Monday to the consecutive terms for the attempted murders.

    (Source: The Associated Press)

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    Louisiana v. Magee

    Opinion Date: September 28, 2012

    Court: Louisiana Supreme Court

    Defendant James C. Magee was indicted by a grand jury for the first degree murder of Adrienne Magee, the first degree murder of Ashton Zachary Magee, the attempted first degree murder of S.M., and the attempted first degree murder of L.M. Following the close of evidence, the jury found the defendant guilty as charged on all counts and, at the conclusion of the penalty phase of the trial, recommended two sentences of death. In accordance with that recommendation, the district court sentenced the defendant to death by lethal injection for the murders of Adrienne and Zack Magee and to two consecutive terms of 50 years of imprisonment at hard labor without benefit of parole, probation or suspension of sentence for the attempted first degree murders of S.M. and L.M. Defendant appealed his convictions and sentences, raising seventeen assignments of error. "After a thorough review of the law and the evidence," the Supreme Court found no merit to any of Defendant's assignments of error, and affirmed his sentences and convictions.
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    On November 30, 2012, the Louisiana Supreme Court denied Magee's petition for rehearing.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/12-9070.htm

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    An opinion piece.

    Let death fall upon the James Magees of the world naturally: James Varney

    It's August in Louisiana and, global warming or no, it often seems the earth is about to burst into flame. This discomfits James Magee.

    Magee, you see, has no air conditioning. He doesn't have access to a swimming pool, and there's no cypress-shaded river or pond beckoning to him on another sweltering, Deep South summer day. There is never a frosty Coke or beer waiting for him as the broiling sun beats relentlessly on his Farm.

    The same is true August after August, year after year, for Magee's 5-year-old son Zack. Zack's situation is a little different, though, and if there is a just and merciful God he's not suffering like his father. Zack, alas, is no longer with this world. He left it unwillingly and too early because, as he tried to run terrified and bewildered beyond imagination, his own father, James Magee, took a shotgun and blew the child into pieces with two blasts.

    Zack took flight because he'd just seen his mother murdered by his father. Yes - after chasing her car through a Mandeville subdivision and ramming it into a tree, Magee put his 12-gauge next to 28-year-old Adrienne's left temple and blew off the back of her head.

    Magee's daughters, 8-year-old Ashleigh and 7-year-old Aleisha, did not run. Paralyzed by fear, they cowered in the car's backseat. That spared them their lives but not James Magee's murderous wrath, as he fired another shotgun blast at them, wounding Ashleigh.

    So when Magee now comes to court complaining he's forced to pop another anti-depressant pill and contemplate his miserable life and diseased soul from a cell at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, I say: splendid, topping, wonderful.

    If Zack is in a paradise he deserves, his father will eventually find himself in a place with no court to which he can gripe about the heat. For now, though, James Magee is on Louisiana's Death Row, and a federal court in Baton Rouge is considering whether the conditions there qualify as cruel and unusual punishment.

    What's cruel and unusual is that society maintains this death row. Questions of life and death should be reserved to those same powers that, one hopes, shield Zack from further harm and will one day hold the jailer's key for his father. There may be some slow roasting in James Magee's future, but we shouldn't do it.

    Is the daily, harsh existence of Angola not punishment enough for us? Why are we not satisfied with James Magee milling about, contemplating his evil deeds, dealing with the same heat we all do but without any of the earthly gifts or brilliant inventions that can alleviate it?

    Or consider the plight of one of Magee's co-plaintiffs, 57-year-old Nathaniel Code. Poor Code suffers from high blood pressure, hepatitis and high cholesterol. Consequently, taxpayers foot the bill for his medication that, unfortunately, makes him more susceptible to health-related illnesses.

    Shackled, but in a climate-controlled courtroom, Code groused to U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson that his Death Row cell, to which he and the other prisoners are confined 23 hours a day, is barely livable.

    "I feel like I'm on fire or something," Code said.

    Considering Code killed eight people, including three minors, it seems safe to say there is some fire in his future. Perhaps a lifetime in the baking plain of Angola will help steel him for his ordeal.

    What we have here is another grotesque situation created by the death penalty itself. The question of whether keeping someone in a tiny, concrete cell for 23 hours a day in Louisiana summers (the same would be true for, say, a Michigan winter) constitutes cruel and unusual punishment seems easily answered: It is.

    There is a way, however, to deal with cruel and unusual men like Magee and Cody: life in prison. There is no need for medieval punishment of the sort Dickens or Hugo would describe in pitiless detail.

    Keeping a human in such conditions demeans us; it is an unduly vicious sort of retribution, a step that makes all of us, the jailers, a bit more like the killers we abhor.

    Were the death penalty abolished, it would not make society some mushy and hopelessly pro-criminal entity. Indeed, who among us would not welcome death as opposed to a lifetime spent in unending, close proximity to the Magees and Codes of the world?

    This lawsuit has come about because of Death Row; a monstrous thing that has begat a monstrous building. An easy solution is to get rid of the death penalty and Death Row. Let Magee and Code deal with whatever comes their way, day after day, until that day when nature, not man, forces them to endure the same terrifying moments they inflicted on their victims.

    James Varney can be reached at jvarney@nola.com

    http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.s...the_james.html
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    This is all great if you believe in God and Heaven and Hell. Where was God when the victims needed protection?????? Why are we ALWAYS asked by people like Varney to trust in God's retribution, when that same dude sat on his butt during the murders??????

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Magee's petition for writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    Supreme Court of Louisiana
    Case Nos.: (2011-KA-0574)
    Decision Date: September 28, 2012
    Rehearing Denied: November 30, 2012
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    On January 22, 2021, Magee filed a habeas petition in Federal District Court.

    https://dockets.justia.com/docket/lo...cv00138/248631
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    According to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., James C. Magee is off death row.

    https://www.naacpldf.org/wp-content/...Winter2022.pdf

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