At the conclusion of the hearing, the court ordered Bourgeois to pay Katrina Harrison $160 per month in child support for JG. Bourgeois, however, was not allowed to take his niece (or any other family member) into the hearing with him. He brought his niece to Texas with him with the intention of telling the judge that she was his daughter and had kidney problems in the event that the court ordered high child support payments. In May of 2002, Bourgeois appeared in Texas for a child-support hearing regarding JG. Bourgeois also had a child from a previous marriage to whose mother he was paying child support. At the time, he was married to Robin Bourgeois, with whom he had two children (“AB1994” and “AB2001”). The paternity test showed that Bourgeois, of LaPlace, Louisiana, was JG's biological father. In April of 2002, Harrison petitioned a local court to have JG's paternity determined. For the first two and one-half years of her life, JG lived with her mother and grandmother in Livingston, Texas. JG was born to Katrina Harrison in October, 1999. Bourgeois challenges his conviction and sentence on grounds that (1) the government failed to charge any aggravating factors in the indictment, (2) the FDPA statutory-intent factor that renders a defendant with a reckless state of mind eligible for the death penalty violates the Eighth Amendment, (3) the district court erred when it delegated to the Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons supervision over Bourgeois's execution, and (4) the aggravating factors used in his sentencing were vague and ambiguous. (argued), Joel Douglas Tinker, Tinker & Muschenheim, Corpus Christi, TX, for Bourgeois.ĭefendant-Appellant Alfred Bourgeois was convicted of murdering his two-year-old daughter (“JG”) and sentenced to death under the Federal Death Penalty Act (“FDPA”). Tony Ray Roberts (argued), James Lee Turner, Asst. Decided: August 25, 2005īefore JOLLY, WIENER and DENNIS, Circuit Judges. UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Bourgeois was living in Louisiana at the time with his wife and their two children.United States Court of Appeals,Fifth Circuit. In Bourgeois’ case, the crimes stand out as particularly brutal because they involved his young daughter.Īccording to court filings, he gained temporary custody of the child, referred to in court papers only as “JG,” after a 2002 paternity suit from a Texas woman.
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Several high-profile figures, including reality TV star Kim Kardashian West, appealed to Trump to commute Bernard’s sentence to life in prison, citing, among other things, Bernard’s youth at the time and the remorse he has expressed over years. Bernard, who was 18 at the time of the killings, was a rare execution of a person who was in his teens when his crime was committed. On Thursday, Brandon Bernard was put to death for his part in a 1999 killing of a religious couple from Iowa after he and other teenage members of a street gang abducted and robbed Todd and Stacie Bagley in Texas. Trump ratchets up pace of executions before Biden inaugural Several appeals courts have concluded that neither evidence nor criminal law on intellectual disability support the claims by Bourgeois’ legal team.
20 inauguration of death-penalty foe Joe Biden, a Democrat, has deprived their client his rights to exhaust his legal options.
The series of executions after Election Day, the first in late November, is the first time in over 130 years where federal executions have occurred during a lame-duck period.īourgeois’ lawyers contend that the apparent hurry by the Republican president to get executions in before the Jan. Three more executions are planned in January. He would be the second person executed this week at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. Lawyers for 56-year-old Alfred Bourgeois say he has an IQ that puts him in the intellectually disabled category and they contend that should have made him ineligible for the death penalty under federal law.īourgeois would be the 10th federal death-row inmate put to death since federal executions resumed under President Donald Trump in July after a 17-year hiatus. US carries out rare execution during presidential transition
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