Texas Carries Out Fourth Execution Of The Year (Triple Murderer)

KWTX ^ | Feb. 7, 2007 | KWTX

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(February 7, 2007)--Convicted killer James Jackson, 47, was executed just after 6 p.m. Wednesday in Huntsville for strangling his two stepdaughters in 1997 at their Houston-area home.

Prosecutors say Jackson also killed his 39-year-old wife, Sharon.

The younger victims were 19-year-old "Sonnie" Mayes and her 18-year-old sister, Ericka.

Police say in his confession, Jackson said he and his wife had been arguing for several days over his unemployment and that she intended to divorce him.

Jackson was the fourth condemned killer to be executed so far this year in Texas.

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http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/jacksonjames.htm

[ConservaTexan]

Please tell me it was Rick Perry!

[GSlob]

One fewer. Too many still to go.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Took them ten long years to get around to it? Some death penalty.

[Paleo Conservative]

1997? What's the holdup? At least he's no longer and oxygen thief.

[YoungSoutherner]

They should have executed him sooner, Texas is slacking. Three murders, I am pretty sure he had a better dead than his victims.

[Spktyr]

Good riddance. Next!

[Spktyr]

Most states don't get around to executing their death row prisoners for 25 years or more - assuming they even do so.

Compared to that? Ten years is lightning fast.

[somemoreequalthanothers]

Some people say the death penalty isn't a deterrent to crime. How will we know until we try it?

[BenLurkin]

Where's Sean Penn?

[AcesFullMike]

Not to offend anyone, but this goes against my beliefs as a Catholic.
I can't endorse compounding the sin of murder with another, any more than I would the murder of an unborn child.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

"We have the death penalty in Texas......and we USE it"

[Osage Orange]

Ten years........???

Not fast enough.....

If it's a cut and dry case....I'd give them no more than 4 months to appeal.

And I'm feeling generous.......

[MeekOneGOP]

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Texas Execution Ping!

[Kozak]

One more and someone is an Ace.....

[GSlob]

"...I'd give them no more than 4 months to appeal.
And I'm feeling generous...."
Why be so stingy? let the posthumous appeals run the full 15 years course!

[skinkinthegrass]

Good for TX....that state puts 'em, on the (relatively speaking :) fast track....for their just rewards.

[Spktyr]

Think of it as societal self defense. The executee has been deemed a danger to society and has therefore been permanently removed from posing a future threat to it.

[isthisnickcool]

Well, well.....

This fellow murders some folks. He goes to trial before a jury. He's provided an attorney. He's convicted and then after the process moves along for 10 years he gets a needle put in him.

Compare that to what Rick Perry has done where he signs a piece of paper all on his own and almost immediately the state starts sticking needles in innocent children. The bottom line is that a murderer has more rights before the state injects chemicals in to him than an innocent child does. At least that what's Rick Perry thinks.

I predict Perry is going to "change his mind" on the vaccination issue and he will do so very soon.