[MeekOneGOP]

What a horrible crime:

"The toddler in the high chair was eating crinkle-cut french fries and corn," Bradley said, talking this week about the Feb. 7, 1998, massacre where the girl; her grandmother, Gwendolyn Black, 36; and Black's 5-month-old daughter, Christina Marie, were killed. "She was just sitting there in the high chair where she had been eating."

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Black called 911 to report the shootings and neighbors also called the emergency number telling dispatchers of hearing gunshots from the home. He was still inside when Bradley and his sergeant arrived and was talking to authorities on the telephone.

"He wanted us to know he put the gun down and he'd be coming out without the gun," Bradley recalled. "When he came out, he was holding the infant across his chest. We approached him and he said he wasn't going to put the baby down on the cold ground.

"As I reached up to grab the baby from him, he said: 'I want to kiss my baby.' I said go ahead. I went to grab the baby and noticed an exit wound on the left shoulder blade. As I pulled the baby toward me, the baby's head kind of just rolled to the left... The eyes were open, fixed, no pulse, no respiration, no nothing."

Texas Dept of Criminal Justice
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Name	TDCJ Number	Date of Birth
Black, Sr., Christopher	999277	8/2/59
Date Received	Age (when Received)	Education Level (Highest Grade Completed)
8/11/98	39	12 years
Date of Offense	Age (at the time of Offense)	County
2/7/98	38	Bell
Race	Gender	Hair Color
Black	Male	Black
Height	Weight	Eye Color
6-0	240	Brown
Native County	Native State	Prior Occupation
Portsmouth	Virginia	Unknown
Prior Prison Record
None
Summary of incident
Black fatally shot his 36-year-old wife,  his 5-month-old daughter, and his 17-month-old granddaughter. Black shot and killed all three of the victims with a 9 millimeter pistol. After he shot all three, he called 911, and when the officers arrived he was holding his deceased daughter in his arms.
Co-defendants
None
Race and Gender of Victim
black female
Photograph of Offender

Last Updated:  July 12, 2001

[MeekOneGOP]

http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/Pending/03/jul03.htm

Date of scheduled execution	State	Victim name	Inmate name	Status
July 9, 2003	Texas	Katrease Houston, 18 months Gwendolyn Black, 36 Christina Black, 15 weeks	Christopher Black	pending
In August 1998, a jury took only 15 minutes Wednesday to convict a man of capital murder in the shooting death of a toddler. The same jury deliberated 7 hours before sentencing him to death.  Christopher Black, 37, of Killeen was convicted of killing 18-month-old Katrease Houston, his wife's granddaughter, on Feb. 7, 1998. Black was also charged with killing his wife, 36-year-old Gwendolyn Black, and the couple's daughter, 15-week-old Christina Black. Relatives claim the triple homicide occurred after Black learned his wife planned to divorce him. Black claimed he shot and killed his wife because she tormented and belittled him and physically abused his 10-year-old son.

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[onyx]

Excellent post, just excellent.

A needle in the arm is hardly justice, but hey, at least Texas executes its murderous miscreants.

[MeekOneGOP]

Man who killed three set to die -
18th execution for Texas in 2003

Christopher Black, Sr.

Excerpt:

"The toddler in the high chair was eating crinkle-cut french fries and corn," Bradley said, talking this week about the Feb. 7, 1998, massacre where the girl; her grandmother, Gwendolyn Black, 36; and Black's 5-month-old daughter, Christina Marie, were killed. "She was just sitting there in the high chair where she had been eating."

< snip >

Black called 911 to report the shootings and neighbors also called the emergency number telling dispatchers of hearing gunshots from the home. He was still inside when Bradley and his sergeant arrived and was talking to authorities on the telephone.

"He wanted us to know he put the gun down and he'd be coming out without the gun," Bradley recalled. "When he came out, he was holding the infant across his chest. We approached him and he said he wasn't going to put the baby down on the cold ground.

"As I reached up to grab the baby from him, he said: 'I want to kiss my baby.' I said go ahead. I went to grab the baby and noticed an exit wound on the left shoulder blade. As I pulled the baby toward me, the baby's head kind of just rolled to the left... The eyes were open, fixed, no pulse, no respiration, no nothing."

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Texas Executions ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[N. Theknow]

18th execution for Texas in 2003

18th file deleted before it could go to the "Repeat Offender" database.

[TheGrimReaper]

"I ran out of bullets," her husband told the 911 dispatcher.

Fortunately for the rest of Texas, the TDCJ will NOT run out of lethal drugs.
I predict that Mr. Black will not be a repeat offender.

[Tacis]

Agree, five years isn't bad. But, it still is nowhere near as good as in the People's Paradise of Cuba. Cuba's efficient criminal justice system is able to process evil doer to their final reward in less than a week! Here in Texas, we can't get the cable guy to come out that quick.

The Dallas Morning News sure is right about the superiority of Cuba. The police car (only the one actually works) in Cuba has the new criminal justice logo painted on the side, "Do the capital murder crime (or one of several thousand lesser infractions) and don't even think about watching The Week In Review!" (I know, in loses a lot in translation)

Last night, Oklahoma awarded the final victory to it's 11th evildoer of the year. This will be our 18th. The rest of the states are falling way behind in demonstrating their sincerity and helpful intentions, feelings, understanding and desires for diversity by helping their evildoers to their final rewards.

[bonehead4freedom]

I applaud your state's efforts to remove the refuse from society,here in my state we had one wiggle off the hook from a very nasty murder because our boy here Boob Shaft wants to appeal to the compasionate demographic like his pal from Illinois.Keep the line moving maybe our pols will see that justice for the innocent is the real evolving standard of decency!

[PhilDragoo]

Relieve prison crowding:
Empty the Death Rows.

[MeekOneGOP]

Man who killed three, including wife and daughter, executed

07/10/2003

Associated Press

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A retired Army sergeant was executed Wednesday evening for murdering his 17-month-old step-granddaughter in a 1998 massacre where his wife and 5-month-old daughter also were gunned down.

Asked by the warden if he wanted to make a final statement, Christopher Black Sr., said no. As the drugs began flowing, he made a groaning sigh and was pronounced dead at 6:19 p.m., seven minutes later.

Black was convicted of killing Katrease Houston at the Killeen home of his estranged wife Gwendolyn Black, the toddler's grandmother. Katrease was found slumped in a high chair. She had been shot five times in the chest.

Her grandmother was shot 10 times. Black's daughter, Christina Marie, was shot once.

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"I ran out of bullets," Black told a 911 operator he called after the Feb. 7, 1998, attack.

Black is the 18th condemned Texas inmate to receive lethal injection this year and the second in as many weeks. Two more are set to die later this month.

The U.S. Supreme Court in April refused to consider Black's appeal and no additional appeals were made, his lawyer, Jack Hurley, said.

Black bought a 9 mm semiautomatic pistol the day before the shooting. He mailed cassette tapes to relatives explaining plans to kill his 36-year-old wife and anyone else in the house. The tapes were timed to arrive after the shooting.

The couple had married just over three years earlier but relatives said Gwendolyn Black, who worked as an elementary school teacher in nearby Copperas Cove after leaving the Army, was seeking a divorce because she received little help from her husband with the children and he had moved out of town to take a security job.

Police who responded to 911 calls from Black and neighbors found him unarmed and holding his daughter to his chest.

"We approached him and he said he wasn't going to put the baby down on the cold ground," Officer Eric Bradley said. "As I reached up to grab the baby from him, he said: 'I want to kiss my baby.' I said go ahead.

"As I pulled the baby toward me, the baby's head kind of just rolled to the left... The eyes were open, fixed, no pulse, no respiration, no nothing."

It took a jury in Killeen 15 minutes to convict Black of capital murder of Katrease. In Texas, murder of a child under the age of 6 can be a death penalty case and the same jury deliberated about seven hours before deciding his punishment.

"I don't recall a case that was any more aggravated or any more vicious in the way the crime was committed and the consequences," Lon Curtis, the former assistant district attorney in Bell County who prosecuted Black, said this week. "The image of that baby, the little girl, slumped over in her high chair with five rounds in the chest... I wish I hadn't been reminded of that."

Black declined to speak from death row with reporters.

"My days are long and sad," he wrote on a Web site where inmates seek pen pals. "I do not want romance or money, the only thing that I want is a friend."

"He made his choices," Bradley said. "And that's where he's at."

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On the Net:

Christopher Black: http://www.ccadp.org/christopherblack.htm

Texas Department of Criminal Justice execution schedule: http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/scheduledexecutions.htm

AP-WS-07-09-03 1935EDT

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Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/tsw/stories/071003dntexexecution.4fe98.html

[SerpentDove]

"So long" to another animal who's getting better than he deserves.

SD

[PISANO]

TEXAS.......the gene pool cleaner!