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    Terrance Carter - Louisiana


    Corinthian Houston, 5




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    Sentenced to death for the July 2006 death of Corinthian Houston. Houston, the son of Carter's ex-girlfriend, was abducted from the front yard of his grandmother's Natchitoches residence and taken to an abandoned house in Coushatta, where he was tied to a chair, doused with gasoline and set on fire.

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    Child killer gets death penalty

    COUSHATTA — The death sentence formally was finally handed down today for a child killer convicted more than a year ago.

    The sentencing of Terrance Carter was not scheduled but happened at the conclusion of a hearing this morning in Red River District Court during which Carter was granted a request to withdraw a motion for a new trial that’s been pending for months.

    Only attorneys and court personnel witnessed the sentencing. The slain child’s family members were not there since the hearing originally was not set up for the sentencing.

    “(Carter) was questioned today and he wanted to withdraw his motion for new trial and it just snowballed from there,” said former Red River District Attorney Bill Jones, who prosecuted Carter in September 2008 and continued to handle the pending appeals.

    Now that he’s sentenced, Carter’s case will proceed through the state and federal post-conviction relief process. An execution date has not been set, and it is likely to take many years to get to that point.

    A jury of Lincoln Parish residents decided Carter should die after listening to a week of evidence that outlined the heinous death of Corinthian Houston, of Natchitoches. The 5-year-old was abducted from his grandmother’s Natchitoches residence and taken to an abandoned house in Coushatta, where he was tied to a chair with an electrical cord, doused with gasoline and set afire. Corinthian suffered third- and fourth-degree burns over 54 percent of his body and likely died within a minute.

    One of Carter’s attorneys, Elton Richey, appealed shortly after the trial, claiming the discovery of new evidence he believed would change the outcome of the jury’s decision. That, the motion for the new trial and other motions have bounced back and forth between the district court, 2nd Circuit Court of Appeal and Louisiana Supreme Court.

    District Judge Lewis Sams decided today that Carter is competent to ask that a new trial not be granted. The judge also denied other motions.

    “So we finally got him sentenced,” Jones said.

    The decision also means Carter, who’s been incarcerated since his trial in Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, officially can be declared a death row inmate.

    http://www.shreveporttimes.com/artic...EWS03/91006022

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    STATE OF LOUISIANA v TERRANCE CARTER

    In an opinion dated January 24, 2012, the Louisiana Supreme Court AFFIRMED Carter's conviction and sentence of death.

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    Coushatta man's death sentence upheld

    The conviction and death sentence of a Coushatta man who killed his girlfriend's son by burning him alive has been upheld by the Louisiana State Supreme Court.

    Terrance Carter sought an appeal from the state's highway court based on 28 errors he says occurred during his September 2008 capital murder trial. The court denied him after a "thorough review of the law and the evidence," according to the 42-page opinion.

    Carter was arrested in July 2006 after Red River Parish sheriff's deputies found the burned body of Corinthian Houston, 5, tied to a chair in an abandoned house next door to Carter's mother's home. Corinthian had been doused with gasoline and set on fire. He suffered third- and fourth-degree burns over 54 percent of his body and likely died within a minute.

    Carter abducted Corinthian from his grandmother's home in Natchitoches after Corinthian's mother, Pamela Fisher, ended a romantic relationship with Carter and resumed a relationship with Corinthian's father, Marcus Houston.

    A jury of Lincoln Parish residents decided Carter's guilt and death sentence after a week of testimony. Carter wasn't formally sentenced until more than a year later because of a series of post-trial motions, including the request for a new trial, that bounced between state and appellate courts for months.

    In its decision released late Tuesday, the state Supreme Court said, in part, "In light of the horrific circumstances in which the defendant killed the 5-year-old victim in this case, we do not find that a sentence of death is a disproportionate penalty."

    Carter's main reason for an appeal, and the sole one advanced at oral arguments, was his allegation that one of his defense attorneys, Daryl Gold, had a conflict of interest because he was facing an unrelated criminal offense at the time of the trial.

    Carter did not specify what actions Gold took or failed to take as a result of the potential conflict, but instead contended the risk was great and the trial court "inadequately inquired" into it. Gold was not prosecuted, the court notes.

    http://www.shreveporttimes.com/artic...entence-upheld

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Carter's petition for writ of certiorari was DENIED.
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    Two inmates commit suicide Saturday at Angola; no connection seen between deaths

    Two prisoners at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola committed suicide Saturday morning. Both hanged themselves within Camp J, the prison’s disciplinary unit, where prisoners facing serious charges for offenses at Angola are sent.

    At 5:33 a.m., about the time when the prison is serving breakfast, Calvin Craddock, 49, was found dead in his cell, according to a news release from Angola spokesman Gary Young.

    Craddock was serving a life sentence for raping a woman at knife point at her uncle’s house in 2004 in St. Tammany Parish. He had been assigned to Angola since 2006.

    Several hours later, at 10:20 a.m., Terrance Carter, 36, was found hanging in his cell, in a different part of Camp J.

    Carter, a death-row inmate, was sentenced to death in 2006 in Red River Parish after he was found guilty of tying his ex-girlfriend’s 5-year-old son to a chair and setting him on fire after finding out that the woman was dating someone else. He arrived at Angola in 2009.

    A complete review is underway by Angola investigators, Young said, adding that the preliminary investigation showed that all protocols were followed and that the suicides seemed to be unrelated.

    Prisoners in Camp J’s cell blocks are confined to their cells for 23 hours a day without privileges. They typically are sent there for grave infractions of prison rules, such as fighting with a weapon or being found in possession of contraband. They can work their way out of Camp J after a certain amount of time.

    Carter had been temporarily assigned to Camp J for a “serious rule infraction,” according to the news release, which didn’t name the violation that landed Craddock there.

    Suicides are rare at Angola. Young said these two deaths were the prison’s first suicides of 2016.

    About 30 years ago, a rash of suicides at the prison led to a suicide-prevention program. Wherever an inmate is alone in a cell, the prison assigns “tier walkers” to walk up and down the tier, checking for signs of trouble and acting as first responders if they see anything unusual. Guards also must punch time clocks at the end of a tier to show they made an entire rotation of the cells.

    When suicides do happen, it’s almost always in solitary cells such as these.

    Keith Nordyke, a lawyer who visits Angola often, said he believed he would have heard if anything bigger was at stake than two prisoners’ individual problems. “I know of no larger context,” he said Saturday.

    Carter’s mother, Carol Carter, received the news with a heavy heart Saturday morning.

    Carter said she had just received a letter from her son, telling her that he wouldn’t be able to call her for 12 weeks for disciplinary reasons. “But he told me that, after those 12 weeks are up, ‘The first person I will call is you,’ ” said Carol Carter, who had reread the letter several times to see if she could detect any warning signs in it.

    “I can’t see anything that sounds like he was depressed,” she said, noting that he had been having health problems for the past year or so, which had worried her enough that she called the prison to ask about them. She’d been assured that his condition was not life-threatening, she said.

    His family hopes to hold a funeral and bury him this week, she said.

    Carter said she had called the police in 2006 after realizing that her son had committed murder, but she had never thought he was violent or prison-bound before that, though he’d suffered with some mental difficulties and had been in and out of petty trouble since was a teenager.

    Yet, she got a sign very early on that life wouldn’t be easy for him, she said, recalling that he was born prematurely. He weighed 4 pounds, 9 ounces at birth, she said, recalling how she went to see him in the intensive-care unit when he was 3 hours old.

    “When I laid my eyes on him, God told me, ‘That’s your trouble child,’ ” she said.

    Carter said she found it hard to believe as she looked at the tiny newborn. “He hadn’t done no good or evil at that point. So I put my all into him,” she said.

    Now, 36 years later, she will lay her troubled child to rest. “He will be in the grave by Saturday,” she said. “I’m praying and hoping that God will grant him some peace.”

    http://theadvocate.com/news/15374044...between-deaths
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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