Posted on 02/27/2007 4:04:26 PM PST by COEXERJ145
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a condemned Texas woman set to die for the slaying of a three-month-old child she was baby-sitting.
The court rejected the appeal yesterday of 50-year-old Cathy Lynn Henderson, who faces execution April 18th for the 1994 beating death of Brandon Baugh.
The baby's body was found stuffed in a wine cooler carton and buried in a field in Bell County, about 50 miles north of Henderson's Austin-area home. The discovery came nearly three weeks after the child was first reported missing.
(Excerpt) Read more at kbtx.com ...
Honestly, she wasn't all that appealing in the first place.
How dumb are you, if you think that you could hide a murder you have committed while being a BABYSITTER?
Dust off old sparky!
I know that makes no sense, the first person they are going to look at is the babysitter.
And we USE it
Well the document above answers that.
The education entry of 12 years is probably age, not 12th grade.
Da*n, just Da*n, a baby, I have no mercy for this poor woman.
Guilty.
Are them backward Texans still executin' wimmin folk? I thought that was just an aberration imposed by the evil Gov. George W. Bush, as I was taught by the L/MSM day by day for months during the 2000 presidential election campaign.
God bless Texas
A dry tree, what was the evidence that she didn't accidentally drop the child on the noggin?
I am not opposed to the death penalty, there has been some 60 people who walked off of death row through DNA evidence.
Found this. Seems there's much more to the story.
In 1982 she married a plant supervisor and had another daughter. But the marriage was rocky, and she was fired after she punched another plant employee.
“From then on Cathy had it rough, rough, rough,” said List, who has spent six years researching Henderson’s story and assisting her defense.
The familiar parenting pattern of Henderson’s youth began to repeat in her adulthood. Allegations of abuse and neglect prompted Texas authorities to terminate her parental rights to her older daughter.
She lost custody of her second daughter to her husband after assaulting him with a knife during a fight.
I keep saying, "when I retire...."
Get old sparky out now.
Hopefully, they have a hard time with the needle like they did with old Tookie. There has to be a special place in Hell for people like this right between the Jihadis and politicans.
I was thinking the same thing. There must have been something going on that this article doesn't mention. If it is as clear cut as accidental dropping, then death penalty for it is an outrage.
I don't know anything other than what the article mentions, but isn't death penalty reserved only for premeditated first degree murders? From what it sounds, the child died from her negligence/accidental dropping.
Is there evidence to suggest that she knowingly dropped the child on his head? The article says she had no prior incident.
Well that caps it for me...
Accident huh...
Your asking entirely too many relevant questions.
W
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