Barbara E. White was stabbed 82 times in 1993. She was a 19-year-old single mother.
Posted on 11/02/2007 6:40:52 AM PDT by RDTF
A federal jury yesterday sentenced a convicted killer to death for stabbing a 19-year-old single mother 82 times in her bathtub and leaving her infant daughter to die, bucking a national trend and marking the first time a jury has voted for capital punishment at the Alexandria federal courthouse.
After less than two full days of deliberations, the 12-member jury said Thomas M. Hager should die for the 1993 slaying of Barbara E. White, who was beaten before being repeatedly stabbed in her Fairfax County apartment. As White begged for her life, her 13-month-old daughter toddled in the next room. The baby was left alone for the next 18 hours, tracking bloody footprints through the apartment and reaching into the tub, where her mother lay face-down in bloody water.
Barbara E. White was stabbed 82 times in 1993. She was a 19-year-old single mother.
U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III immediately imposed a death sentence on Hager, 34, because the jury's verdict was technically a recommendation that he was obligated by law to follow. The judge said White's death was as heinous as any crime he has seen in his 20 years on the bench, observers said. Hager, who has been convicted in two other murders, declined a chance to speak.
His attorney, John Kiyonaga, said that he was "very saddened" by the verdict and that Hager would appeal
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With any luck, he’ll get his just desserts in 7-8 years.
Barbara E. White was stabbed 82 times in 1993. She was a 19-year-old single mother.
Deeply saddened? Good grief!
Why did the mods move this to chat? It’s a federal death penalty case.
I thought it was big news too
It's already been 14 years, what's another 7-8....geez.
Justice delayed is Justice denied.
This is why 19 year olds need the right to own guns, just like everyone else. Maybe she might have had one chance.
This is a federal death penalty sentence - shouldn’t it be back in front page news?
“White was stabbed by three men who returned to the kitchen for more knives when the blades broke or bent. “
Monsters.
Jury sentenced him to death. Judge imposed the sentence.
Why was it tried in a Virginia federal court? Murder is usually a state crime.
from article:
Federal prosecutors became interested in the case after it was investigated for years by two Fairfax cold-case homicide detectives. Two other men, Lonnie T. Barnett Jr. and Arlington Johnson Jr., pleaded guilty to similar federal charges in White’s death and were sentenced to life in prison. They testified against Hager.
Jurors convicted Hager of one count of murder while engaging in drug trafficking. During the penalty phase, they endorsed on their verdict form all 12 of the “aggravating factors” suggested by prosecutors, including Hager’s lack of remorse and his future danger to prison guards and inmates.
Thanks.
I guess it’s the drug connection?
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