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    Alfred Bourgeois - Federal Execution - December 11, 2020




    Summary of Offense:

    On March 24, 2004, a jury recommended a death sentence for Alfred Bourgeois for the 2002 murder of his daughter, Jakaren Harrison May, at the Corpus Christi Naval Air Station in Texas, based in part on the testimony of a prisoner housed with Bourgeois.

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    On October 13, 2005, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Bourgeois' death sentence on direct appeal.

    http://74.6.238.254/search/srpcache?...mlJtJcfG.JfA--

    On May 19, 2011, Bourgeois' petition for post-conviction relief was denied in Federal District Court.

    http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal...0223/507545/9/

    On August 22, 2011, Bourgeois filed an appeal in the Fifth Circuit.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cir.../ca5/11-70024/

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    On August 5, 2013, the US Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals DENIED a Certificate of Appealability to Bourgeois on appeal from the denial of his petition for post-conviction relief in Federal District Court.

    http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal...0024/512331850

    On October 10, 2013, the Fifth Circuit denied his petition for en banc rehearing.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/13-8397.htm

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    Below is an unusual denial of a request to extend a filing deadline.

    Alfred Bourgeois, Applicant
    v.
    United States
    Docketed: December 27, 2013
    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (11-70024)

    ~~~Date~~~ ~~~~~~~Proceedings and Orders~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Dec 24 2013 Application (13A672) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 8, 2014 to February 7, 2014, submitted to Justice Scalia.
    Dec 30 2013 Application (13A672) denied by Justice Scalia.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/13-8397.htm

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    In today's orders, the US Supreme Court DENIED Bourgeois' certiorari petition.

    Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
    Case Nos.: (11-70024)
    Decision Date: August 5, 2013
    Rehearing Denied: October 10, 2013

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es\13-8397.htm

    Theoretically, Bourgeois' appeals are now exhausted. Unfortunately, litigation over the federal government's lethal-injection protocol has continued to be bogged down in the District of Columbia District Court since 2006.

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    AG Barr orders reinstatement of the federal death penalty

    Barr also directed the federal government to schedule the executions of five death-row inmates convicted of murder

    By Daniel Arkin
    NBC News

    Attorney General William Barr has ordered the reinstatement of the federal death penalty after a 16-year pause, the Department of Justice announced Thursday.

    Barr also directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to schedule the executions of five death-row inmates convicted of murder, the Justice Department said in a news release.

    The executions are slated to take place in December 2019 and January 2020.

    “Congress has expressly authorized the death penalty through legislation adopted by the people’s representatives in both houses of Congress and signed by the President,” Barr said in a statement.

    "The Justice Department upholds the rule of law—and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system," he added.

    The last federal execution occurred in 2003.

    In 2014, President Barack Obama ordered the Justice Department to carry out a review of capital punishment and lethal injection drugs. The review led to what was effectively a moratorium on federal executions.

    There are currently 62 inmates on federal death row, according to a list compiled by the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit.

    The list of current inmates includes convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Charleston church shooter Dylann Roof.

    The federal inmates whose executions have been scheduled are Daniel Lewis Lee, a member of a white supremacist group convicted of killing a family of three, including an 8-year-old girl; Lezmond Mitchell, convicted of stabbing to death a 63-year-old woman; Wesley Ira Purkey, convicted of raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl; Alfred Bourgeois, convicted of sexually molesting and beating to death his 2-and-a-half-year-old daughter; and Dustin Lee Honken, convicted of shooting five people to death.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...m_npd_nn_tw_ma
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    Bourgeois' execution date is January 13.

    https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/07/25/us/....google.com%2F
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    Here is the Federal Bureau of Prisons execution protocol for Bourgeois.

    https://static.texastribune.org/medi...tocol-2019.pdf
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    Details about the crime:

    From the outset, Bourgeois systematically abused and tortured his two-year-old daughter in several ways.   For example, Bourgeois became fixated on JG's toilet training. Her training potty became JG's primary seat during the day, and Bourgeois even forced her to sleep on it when they were traveling at night. When she had “accidents,” Bourgeois would strike JG and then tell his older daughter, AB1994, that it was her fault.

    In addition, Bourgeois constantly beat and otherwise assaulted JG. He punched her in the face with enough force to give her black eyes. He whipped her with an electrical cord, and he beat her with a belt so hard that it broke.   Bourgeois hit JG in the head with a plastic baseball bat so many times that her head “was swollen like a football.” Later, when he was in jail, Bourgeois laughed to a fellow inmate that “[t]hat f---ing baby's head got as big as a watermelon.”

    There was also evidence that, before the Bourgeois family left LaPlace, Bourgeois had thrown JG against the wall of the master bedroom.   He scratched and pulled her ears, bit her hands, feet, and forehead, and burned the bottom of her foot with a cigarette lighter.   Bourgeois's wife, Robin, and others noticed that bruises and other injuries appeared on JG's body shortly after she came to stay with the Bourgeois family, and that, between the middle and end of May, JG's hands and feet had become extremely calloused and swollen.   When others tried to clean the sores on JG's feet, Bourgeois would stop them and jam his dirty thumb into the wounds, then force JG to walk on her injured feet.

    In addition to physically torturing JG, Bourgeois traumatized her emotionally.   For example, on one occasion, Bourgeois decided that it was time for JG to learn how to swim, despite her tender years and fear of the water.   Bourgeois picked up the two-year-old and tossed her several feet in the air and into a swimming pool.   He allowed her to sink for several seconds before pulling her out, then repeated the “lesson” for thirty minutes while JG choked and gasped for air.   Similarly, when the family visited a California beach on Bourgeois's long-haul trucking route, he forced JG into the ocean even though she was terrified of the water, holding her under the water and letting the waves roll over her.   By the time they left the beach, JG had swallowed so much salt water that she had difficulty walking and was ill with a swollen stomach.

    There was also evidence of sexual abuse.   When the family was staying in LaPlace in May, Bourgeois slept in the master bedroom with JG and AB1994 behind a locked door, while Robin slept in a different bedroom.   Late that month, a family friend noticed blood in JG's diaper and convinced Bourgeois and Robin to take JG to Louisiana Child Protective Services (“CPS”) for an evaluation.   There, the examining physician concluded that the source of the blood was external irritation to JG's genitalia.   Although the doctor determined that the cause of the injury was inconclusive, he noted that it could have been the result of vaginal trauma.   The same doctor examined JG after her death and found a similar but more severe irritation to JG's genitalia, this time concluding that the irritation was likely caused by vaginal trauma.   Furthermore, after JG's death, rectal swabs revealed the presence of semen.
    Don't ask questions, just consume product and then get excited for next products.

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    US death row inmate challenges January execution

    WASHINGTON - Lawyers for one of five federal prisoners scheduled by President Donald Trump's administration for execution have launched a two-pronged legal effort to prevent the government from carrying out the lethal injection slated for January.

    The US government has not carried out an execution since 2003 amid legal challenges to its lethal injection protocol, but Attorney General William Barr last month said it would resume capital punishment and scheduled the execution of five convicted murderers who were tried in federal rather than state courts.

    In Washington, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday allowed one of the five men, Alfred Bourgeois, to have his federal lawsuit challenging the legality of the government's lethal injection procedures consolidated with a larger and long-running civil lawsuit brought by a group of other federal death row inmates. Alexander Kursman, a lawyer for Bourgeois, told Chutkan he plans by Monday to seek a stay of execution.

    His lawyers also said they have filed a separate lawsuit in federal court in Indiana seeking to block his execution on the grounds that Bourgeois is "intellectually disabled and constitutionally ineligible for the death penalty." Under Supreme Court precedent, executing people with intellectual disabilities violates the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

    Bourgeois, due to be executed on Jan. 13 at a federal prison in Indiana, was sentenced to death in Texas in 2004 after being convicted of sexually molesting and fatally beating his 2-1/2-year-old daughter.

    "The jury that sentenced Mr. Bourgeois to death never learned that he was intellectually disabled," Victor Abreu, another lawyer for Bourgeois, said in a statement, adding that no court has ever used proper scientific standards to review his client's disability.

    The hearing before Chutkan was the first time Justice Department lawyers had appeared in court since Barr's July 25 announcement that the Justice Department had adopted a new death penalty protocol using a single drug rather than the prior three-drug cocktail. Barr scheduled five executions starting in December.

    Barr's announcement jump-started a dormant lawsuit, first filed in 2005, that challenged the department's capital punishment procedures on several grounds, including violating the Eighth Amendment as well as a federal law on how regulations are enacted. The other death row inmates in that litigation were not among the five scheduled for execution.

    Paul Enzinna, lead plaintiff lawyer in the case, told Chutkan his team needs to carry out depositions of government officials about how the single-drug protocol will work amid concerns it could cause a painful death or not be administered properly.

    Lawyers for the inmates and Justice Department agreed to a timetable for carrying out preliminary depositions.

    https://news.abs-cbn.com/overseas/08...uary-execution
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