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CRIJ 1301 Special Project #2
Death Penalty in America
This assignment will utilize two web-based resources:
Death Penalty Information Center www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
; and The Texas Department of Criminal Justice https://www.tdcj.texas.gov/death_row/index.html
1.
How many people were on death row in the United States as of April 1, 2022? How many of those were on death row in Texas? 2,414 people were on death row and in Texas, the number of people on death row is 199.
2.
Find the list of executed offenders in Texas. Who was the most recently executed offender? On what date was he executed? Describe the crimes for which he was executed and his last words. Stephen Barbee was executed on November 16, 2022, he was executed because On February, 19, 2005, in Tarrant County, Barbee asphyxiated a 34-year-old white female and a 7-year-old white male, transported their bodies to a wooded area, and buried them. His last words are “I want to take this moment to be shared with everyone, to give God all the glory of our love, peace, wisdom, kindness, and respect. God knows the truth. He is the truth, the way, and the life. I don’t want this to be a sad moment for all my friends and loved ones. God gave his blood and died in 3 days for the glory and grace
for all of us that will serve him an eternity. I want to thank all the field ministers for doing a good job of changing people and teaching the word of God. It’s a different place now. Thank you minister and my brothers. I love them. I also want to thank the field ministers that helped me get through this. I want everyone to have peace in their heart that only Jesus can give us. I Love you Jennifer, Ashley, and Fabio. Thank you for everything. Thank you, brother, I’m ready to go home. I’m ready, Warden send me home. I just want everyone to have peace in their heart, make eternity with Jesus, give him the glory in everything you do. I’m ready.”
3.
Read about the federal death penalty: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/state-and-federal-info/federal-death-penalty
After a 17-year hiatus, the federal government resumed executions last year. 13 of the 16 total executions carried out by the federal government in the modern era, occurred in the 6-month period between July 2020 and January 2021. Find the list of people executed under the federal death penalty since 2001. Choose one and describe his or her crimes in detail. (Use outside resources. Your response should include more information that was included in the short blurb on DPIC.) Do you believe this offender deserved the death penalty? Why or why not?
Lisa Montgomery, a White female, was executed on January 13, 2021. On Oct. 26, 2007, a jury in Kansas City, Missouri recommended a death sentence for Montgomery following her conviction for kidnapping and killing Bobbie Jo Stinnett, also white, and stealing her unborn baby. Montgomery took the baby with her to Kansas and claimed the baby was her child. (Kansas City Star, Oct. 26, 2007). Montgomery was formally sentenced to death on April 4, 2008, in the U.S. District Court. (Topeka Capital-Journal, Apr. 3, 2008). She became the third woman on federal death row. She was the first woman to be put to death by the federal government since 1953 and had been the only woman on federal death row. Ms. Montgomery strangled Bobbie Jo Stinnett, used a
knife to cut her abdomen and extracted the fetus, then claimed the child as her own. Still, Ms. Montgomery’s lawyers cited the repeated physical and sexual abuse she endured as a child in pleas for leniency, arguing that President Trump would affirm the experiences of abuse survivors by commuting her sentence to life imprisonment. Her mother forced her to “pay the bills” through sexual acts with various repairmen, and her
stepfather regularly subjected her to sexual abuse, a clinical psychologist said in a court declaration filed by her defense team. Ms.Montgomery had no last words before her execution. I think Ms.Montgomery deserved the death penalty because she not only killed Stinnett she cut her open almost like decapitation and took the baby girl she could
have harmed the baby if cutting in too deep. I feel that for a crime of that degree there is no mercy even though she was abused there is help out there and organizations as well if wanting to do it under the radar. 4.
How many executions have occurred so far in 2022? Of those, how many were in Texas?
So far in 2022, there have been 17 executions so far in the year and 5 of those were in Texas.
5.
Find the list of scheduled executions in the state of Texas. Who is scheduled to be executed next? Research the offender and his crimes. Name the most interesting thing you’ve learned about this offender and the crime(s) he committed. (I will grade this question on a curve, giving the highest points to the most original responses and the lowest points for the most-cited responses. Your score for this question will be on a scale of 1-5.)
The upcoming execution for the state of Texas is Robert Alan Fratta for hiring two hitmen to kill his wife on November 9, 1994, while in the middle of a custody battle and divorce. The most interesting thing I learned was that he was a public safety officer. Because we are supposed to trust and put our trust in our officers and for him to have his wife killed is absolutely bogus. I also read that Fratta was at church while he knew and waited for his wife to get killed. “Farah Fratta was killed in her garage on Nov. 9, 1994, leaving behind three children. Robert was in church when she was found shot to death.”
Farah was shot twice in the head; he gave her no mercy and no goodbye to her children,
“Fratta’s adult daughter, who was 4 years old when her mother died, said she saw no remorse from her father when she visited him once in jail. She went on to say, because of him, she developed trust issues with men and relationships.” Fratta traumatized his children for the life he left them asking themselves why would my dad do that to their mom. That is what I would be asking myself if it happened to me. It was bad enough that he saw his father die and a teenager and for him to turn around and do that to his children is like you’d think he’d want better for them even if he was divorcing his wife. I 100% agree with his conviction because I am a mother and know what it’s like to want to protect your children and as a father, he should have wanted the same.
6.
Follow the link for Death Row Facts
at tdcj.state.tx.us. Answer the following questions:
a.
Name two crimes which may be punishable by death in Texas. The murder of a peace officer or fireman who is acting in the lawful discharge of an official duty and who the person knows is a peace officer or fireman.
The murder during the commission or attempted commission of kidnapping, burglary, robbery, aggravated sexual assault, arson, obstruction or retaliation, or terroristic threat.
b.
Based on the list, which factors may the prosecutor have used to make Stephen Barbee eligible for the death penalty in Texas?
c.
What are the names and execution dates for the inmates with the shortest and longest stay on death row in Texas since 1976? The Shortest Joe Gonzales execution date was 09/18/1996 on death row for 252 days. And Steven Renfro execution date was 02/09/1998 was on death row for 263 days. The Longest David Lee Powell execution date was on 06/15/2010 and was on death row for 11,575 days (31 years). Lester Bower was executed on 06/03/2015 and was on death row for 11,346 days (31 years).
d.
What is the average age of offenders executed in Texas?
The average age is 39 years old.
7.
Would you attend the execution of a death row inmate? Why or why not?
I would because I would like to know and see the process of the execution from start to finish and I would like to hear what the inmate had to say. But before going I would read
over the case and why they are getting executed.
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