Posted on 02/28/2006 6:07:36 AM PST by tuffydoodle
Edited on 02/28/2006 7:08:30 AM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Barbee sentenced to dieBy TRACI SHURLEYStar-Telegram Staff Writer Star-Telegram Staff WriterFORT WORTH — Stephen Barbee was sentenced to death this afternoon for killing Lisa Underwood and her 7-year-old son, Jayden. A jury of seven women and five men took more than three hours to reach their decision on Barbee, 38.
The jury could have sentenced him to life in prison. During closing arguments this morning, prosecutor Kevin Rousseau brought a dramatic end to the capital murder case against Barbee with a gripping description of the murder of a pregnant Underwood and her son. He talked about Barbee’s trip to Underwood’s north Fort Worth home in the early hours of Feb. 19, 2005, and the fight that left bloodstains all over her living room. When he finished describing how Barbee smothered Underwood by pressing her face into her carpet, he reminded jurors about her 7-year-old son’s last moments on earth. “Jayden couldn’t run,” Rousseau said. “You think of (Barbee) approaching that little boy and slappng him upside the head hard enough to leave a bruise and then holding him down until he’s dead, and I dare you to say there is a reason to save his life.” In a victim impact statement, Underwood's mother, Sheila Underwood, addressed Barbee: "I want you to know I’m 53 years old and I don’t have anything left. ... I want you to suffer like I suffer. You put me in hell." Last week, Barbee, 38, was convicted of smothering the two and dumping their bodies in a wooded area in rural Denton County. At about 10:20 a.m. today, a jury began deciding whether he would die for the crime.
Police investigators said Barbee thought that Underwood was carrying his child and claimed that she had threatened to break up his marriage. The unborn baby girl was not Barbee’s child, lab tests later confirmed. Underwood’s friends have said that she believed he was the father and wanted only for Barbee, who co-owned two businesses, to have the child covered on his health insurance. During closing arguments Monday, prosecutors Dixie Bersano and Rousseau cast Barbee as a selfish man who was willing to do anything to get what he wanted. They said the disregard he showed for the lives of Lisa Underwood and Jayden prove that he will be a future danger to society, a requirement for the death penalty. Defense attorneys Tim Moore and Bill Ray, however, pleaded with jurors not to use emotion to answer the question of whether Barbee should die. Moore cautioned them against asking why, if Barbee took these two lives, he shouldn’t die, too. “It’s not a proper question, and I’ll tell you why it’s not a proper question,” Moore said. “That is because it’s a question the answer of which is based on pure revenge, and you have to be careful, folks, not to let revenge creep into your deliberations.
There’s no place for revenge in our law.” Moore said Barbee was a law-abiding, productive citizen who changed into an “atrocious human being” for three hours on Feb. 19, 2005. He is unlikely to be violent in the future, Moore said. Rousseau, however, said jurors had plenty of reason to consider Barbee dangerous. Testimony from Barbee’s first wife, Theresa, was an example, he said. She testified last week that Stephen Barbee assaulted her four times during their marriage. Once, a candle he knocked off a wall hit her in the head and gave her a concussion, she said. “The pattern was there.
The warning was there,” Rousseau said. “Unfortunately, Lisa Underwood did not have the benefit of that warning. She never had a chance. She never had a chance.”
Oh, I see it is Texas. However, even there, it's likely that years will pass before he gets the Zot.
And of course it may not have mattered to Barbee's wife that the child wasn't his, because it would have been obvious that he cheated on her. All this misery could have been avoided if he hadn't chosen to screw around. Seems that adultery leads at least as directly to human suffering and violence as illegal drug use. Perhaps it should be made a crime.
I can't even read or watch the news stories about that one. I change the channel when they come on.
Do we have a "burka Barbie?"
It will be an insult to Texas soil for him to buried here after his date with the needle (actually a catheter) and his joining the Greater Huntsville Flatliners' Club.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>I do believe it is possible to kill an adult (for example in a fight) without being an unreformable murderer... but to kill a pregnant woman and then her 7 year old son - I don't see how this was even debatable.
This clown was pushed into action by the pregnant girlfriend who threatened to ruin his life by telling his wife about them and "his" new baby in the oven. The trashy broad was wrong several ways, it was not his baby, (cheating on the cheater) and he didn't react by cowering to her threats. He killed the 7 year old when he walked in on the action. What kind of person do you suppose the 7 year old would grow up to be??????? We'll never know, but good riddance to the rest of the rats. The biggest shame is Barbee didn't eliminate himself and save the taxpayers a million or so.
That was a little harsh but there's actually even more to the story. The little boy that was killed was the result of her trying to trap another man. It didn't work.
No matter what, the children are innocent and they guy should fry for killing them.
Writer Star-Telegram Staff WriterFORT WORTH —
Stephen Barbee was sentenced to death this afternoon for killing Lisa Underwood and her 7-year-old son, Jayden.
A jury of seven women and five men took more than three hours to reach their decision on Barbee, 38. The jury could have sentenced him to life in prison.
During closing arguments this morning, prosecutor Kevin Rousseau brought a dramatic end to the capital murder case against Barbee with a gripping description of the murder of a pregnant Underwood and her son. He talked about Barbee’s trip to Underwood’s north Fort Worth home in the early hours of Feb. 19, 2005, and the fight that left bloodstains all over her living room.
When he finished describing how Barbee smothered Underwood by pressing her face into her carpet, he reminded jurors about her 7-year-old son’s last moments on earth.
“Jayden couldn’t run,” Rousseau said. “You think of (Barbee) approaching that little boy and slappng him upside the head hard enough to leave a bruise and then holding him down until he’s dead, and I dare you to say there is a reason to save his life.”
In a victim impact statement, Underwood's mother, Sheila Underwood, addressed Barbee: "I want you to know I’m 53 years old and I don’t have anything left. ... I want you to suffer like I suffer. You put me in hell."
Last week, Barbee, 38, was convicted of smothering the two and dumping their bodies in a wooded area in rural Denton County. At about 10:20 a.m. today, a jury began deciding whether he would die for the crime.
Police investigators said Barbee thought that Underwood was carrying his child and claimed that she had threatened to break up his marriage. The unborn baby girl was not Barbee’s child, lab tests later confirmed.
Underwood’s friends have said that she believed he was the father and wanted only for Barbee, who co-owned two businesses, to have the child covered on his health insurance.
During closing arguments Monday, prosecutors Dixie Bersano and Rousseau cast Barbee as a selfish man who was willing to do anything to get what he wanted. They said the disregard he showed for the lives of Lisa Underwood and Jayden prove that he will be a future danger to society, a requirement for the death penalty.
Defense attorneys Tim Moore and Bill Ray, however, pleaded with jurors not to use emotion to answer the question of whether Barbee should die. Moore cautioned them against asking why, if Barbee took these two lives, he shouldn’t die, too.
“It’s not a proper question, and I’ll tell you why it’s not a proper question,” Moore said. “That is because it’s a question the answer of which is based on pure revenge, and you have to be careful, folks, not to let revenge creep into your deliberations. There’s no place for revenge in our law.”
Moore said Barbee was a law-abiding, productive citizen who changed into an “atrocious human being” for three hours on Feb. 19, 2005. He is unlikely to be violent in the future, Moore said. Rousseau, however, said jurors had plenty of reason to consider Barbee dangerous.
Testimony from Barbee’s first wife, Theresa, was an example, he said. She testified last week that Stephen Barbee assaulted her four times during their marriage. Once, a candle he knocked off a wall hit her in the head and gave her a concussion, she said.
“The pattern was there. The warning was there,” Rousseau said. “Unfortunately, Lisa Underwood did not have the benefit of that warning. She never had a chance. She never had a chance.”
"The trashy broad was wrong several ways, it was not his baby, (cheating on the cheater) and he didn't react by cowering to her threats. He killed the 7 year old when he walked in on the action. What kind of person do you suppose the 7 year old would grow up to be??????? We'll never know, but good riddance to the rest of the rats."
Dude, she was pregant woman with an innocent unborn child.
And are seriously happy that a 7 year old was murdered?
God Almighty, we're discussing 2 people and an unborn baby murdered but what is being discussed is the lack of paragraphs in the story? I wish my life was so perfect that I feel the need to whine about paragraphs.
Just thought I'd repost to make it a little easier on the eye. As for Barbee, I hope his stay on Death Row is short and he receives final justice expeditiously. Given that it's Texas, this may happen.
slow news day............
By TRACI SHURLEYStar-Telegram Staff Writer Star-Telegram Staff Writer
FORT WORTH — Stephen Barbee was sentenced to death this afternoon for killing Lisa Underwood and her 7-year-old son, Jayden.
A jury of seven women and five men took more than three hours to reach their decision on Barbee, 38.
The jury could have sentenced him to life in prison. During closing arguments this morning, prosecutor Kevin Rousseau brought a dramatic end to the capital murder case against Barbee with a gripping description of the murder of a pregnant Underwood and her son.
He talked about Barbee’s trip to Underwood’s north Fort Worth home in the early hours of Feb. 19, 2005, and the fight that left bloodstains all over her living room. When he finished describing how Barbee smothered Underwood by pressing her face into her carpet, he reminded jurors about her 7-year-old son’s last moments on earth.
“Jayden couldn’t run,” Rousseau said. “You think of (Barbee) approaching that little boy and slappng him upside the head hard enough to leave a bruise and then holding him down until he’s dead, and I dare you to say there is a reason to save his life.”
In a victim impact statement, Underwood's mother, Sheila Underwood, addressed Barbee: "I want you to know I’m 53 years old and I don’t have anything left. ... I want you to suffer like I suffer. You put me in hell."
Last week, Barbee, 38, was convicted of smothering the two and dumping their bodies in a wooded area in rural Denton County.
At about 10:20 a.m. today, a jury began deciding whether he would die for the crime.
Police investigators said Barbee thought that Underwood was carrying his child and claimed that she had threatened to break up his marriage. The unborn baby girl was not Barbee’s child, lab tests later confirmed. Underwood’s friends have said that she believed he was the father and wanted only for Barbee, who co-owned two businesses, to have the child covered on his health insurance.
During closing arguments Monday, prosecutors Dixie Bersano and Rousseau cast Barbee as a selfish man who was willing to do anything to get what he wanted. They said the disregard he showed for the lives of Lisa Underwood and Jayden prove that he will be a future danger to society, a requirement for the death penalty. Defense attorneys Tim Moore and Bill Ray, however, pleaded with jurors not to use emotion to answer the question of whether Barbee should die. Moore cautioned them against asking why, if Barbee took these two lives, he shouldn’t die, too. “It’s not a proper question, and I’ll tell you why it’s not a proper question,” Moore said. “That is because it’s a question the answer of which is based on pure revenge, and you have to be careful, folks, not to let revenge creep into your deliberations. There’s no place for revenge in our law.” Moore said Barbee was a law-abiding, productive citizen who changed into an “atrocious human being” for three hours on Feb. 19, 2005. He is unlikely to be violent in the future, Moore said.
Rousseau, however, said jurors had plenty of reason to consider Barbee dangerous.
Testimony from Barbee’s first wife, Theresa, was an example, he said. She testified last week that Stephen Barbee assaulted her four times during their marriage. Once, a candle he knocked off a wall hit her in the head and gave her a concussion, she said. “The pattern was there. The warning was there,” Rousseau said.
“Unfortunately, Lisa Underwood did not have the benefit of that warning.
She never had a chance.
She never had a chance.”
Regardless of what the girl did, he had a wife at home. He should not have been messing with the girl to begin with. If he had been at home with his wife where he belonged, this would never had happened. At least not with him.
I think I'll start a ping list for slow news day whiners. Wouldn't want them to miss out on a chance to bitch.
And, I was just trying to help you, and in a humorous manner. Sheesh--you're so defensive. Lighten up.
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