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Saturday, November 28, 2020

‘DEVIL WORSHIPPER’ CHARGED WITH A 2016 MURDER HAS MURDERED AGAIN IN TEXAS

  

Edward O'Neal was charged in a 2016 Texas killing and has now been accused of killing again Credit: Houston Police Department


            Edward O’Neal, A self-proclaimed “devil worshipper” who has been charged with a 2016 murder is accused of killing once again. He was just 18 when he first arrested over the 2016 murder of Ryan Roberts, whose body was discovered in the woods by an overpass near his home with stab wounds.  On November 28, 2020, he shot Derrick Mike, his cousin’s ex-girlfriend dead.

             I do not believe that this recidivist killer has mental illness, I believe that he knew what he was doing, as he committed premeditated murder. As Thomas Szasz said:

Mental illness is a myth, whose function is to disguise and thus render more palatable the bitter pill of moral conflicts in human relations.

https://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2017/04/thomas-szasz-on-mental-illness-myth.html



'Devil-worshipper' charged with teen's murder in Texas accused of killing again

Pip Christmass

7NEWS

Published: Wednesday, 9 December 2020 6:57 PM

A self-proclaimed “devil worshipper” who has been charged with a 2016 murder is accused of killing once again.

Edward O’Neal, 23, was in a Texas prison for four years awaiting trial for the 2016 stabbing murder of his 16-year-old friend Ryan Roberts, the New York Post reports.

He was released in August on an AUD $33,000 bond.

But on Saturday, O’Neal was back behind bars, accusing of shooting his cousin’s ex-boyfriend, Derrick Mike.

The 39-year-old victim was found in woodland on November 28 and was able to describe his alleged assailant to police before he died the next day.

Houston Police said O’Neal had confessed to both killings to his mother.

Edward O'Neal was charged in a 2016 Texas killing and has now been accused of killing again Credit: Houston Police Department

As the delivery driver dropped off the food, a concerned passerby removed the car keys and called police.

Court documents reveal that his mother told police her son had mental issues and that she was “afraid of what else he might do.”

At the time of the 2016 killing, O’Neal’s mother told police that her son worshipped the devil and had killed two family pets.

In a jailhouse interview with local news outlet KPRC2, O’Neal admitted that he was a Satanist but denied killing Roberts.

He was admitted to a psychiatric institution for 120 days and was initially declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.

But when he was found competent again, a judge cut his bond in half at the request of his lawyer.

Edward O’Neal, 23, was in a Texas prison for four years awaiting trial for the 2016 stabbing murder of his 16-year-old friend.

  

 O'Neal had posted $25,000 bail over the 2016 death of Ryan Roberts, pictured, just five months earlier after Judge Mark Kent Ellis had lowered the bond from $50,000. O'Neal was just 18 when he first arrested over the murder of Roberts, whose body was discovered in the woods by an overpass near his home with stab wounds

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9031929/Devil-worshipper-charged-murdering-second-man-bail-stabbing-friend.html


The mother of his alleged first victim slammed the decision to release O’Neal. 


“I told the DA (district attorney) he should not get out,” Christina Roberts told ABC13.

“He killed my son, he’ll be killing again.”

The Harris County District Attorney’s Office said it had also opposed lowering the bond amount.

O’Neal is now being held in prison without bond.

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OTHER LINKS:

'Satanic' Murder Suspect Kills Again After Being Released From Prison, Police Say

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3363689627086313

https://www.newsweek.com/satanic-murder-suspect-kills-again-released-prison-police-1553184?amp=1

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9031929/Devil-worshipper-charged-murdering-second-man-bail-stabbing-friend.html

https://gunmemorial.org/2020/11/28/derrick-mike

LOSE BRAIN, SAVE LIFE BY MICHAEL WELNER

https://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2016/07/lose-brain-save-life-by-michael-welner.html

https://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/search/label/Mental%20Illness%20Fraud

THOMAS SOWELL: An IQ exemption for the death penalty?

https://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/06/90th-birthday-celebration-for-thomas.html

Robert Berezin has been in private practice and taught psychiatry at Harvard Medical School for thirty years. He is the author of Psychotherapy of Character: The Play of Consciousness in the Theater of the Brain and Do No Harm: The Destructive History of Pharmaceutical Psychiatry and its Bedfellows. He blogs at www.robertberezin.com.

http://robertberezin.com/

https://www.madinamerica.com/2016/04/psychiatric-diagnosis-is-a-fraud-the-destructive-and-damaging-fiction-of-biological-diseases/

https://www.madinamerica.com/2015/03/say-no-fiction-brain-diseases-towards-new-psychiatry-biological-depression-biological-anxiety-adhd-manic-depression-schizophrenia/

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-theater-the-brain/201412/it-s-time-scrap-innocent-reason-insanity?amp


Friday, November 20, 2020

ZLATKO SIKORSKY DIES IN PRISON AFTER JAIL ASSAULT (NOVEMBER 20, 2020)

                  Zlatko Sikorsky accused of torturing and murdering his teenage girlfriend has died after being attacked in jail. Good that there is one last paedophile on earth now. 

 

Sikorsky is brutally bashed by a fellow inmate at Brisbane's Wolston Correctional Centre.


Zlatko Sikorsky, accused 'body in a barrel' murderer, dies in hospital after prison brawl

Alex Chapman

7NEWS

Published: 20/11/2020

Updated: 20 November 2020 9:54 am

A man accused of torturing and murdering his teenage girlfriend has died after being attacked in jail.

Zlatko Sikorsky, 37, was taken to Brisbane’s Princess Alexandra Hospital in a critical condition last Tuesday.

He suffered fatal head injuries during a brawl with another prisoner and spent more than a week on life support.

A spokesperson for Queensland Corrective Services confirmed in a statement he died from his injuries on Friday morning.

“The Queensland Police Service’s Correctional Services Investigation Unit is investigating,” it said.

“Our condolences go out to the man’s family and friends.”

Sikorsky was awaiting trial for charges of murder, torture, deprivation of liberty and interfering with a corpse in relation to the 2018 death of his 16-year-old girlfriend Larissa Beilby.

Beilby was found inside a barrel in the back of a dumped ute in Brisbane’s south in June 2018.

She was reported missing by her father on June 22 and her body not found until several days later.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3317965188325424

https://7news.com.au/news/qld/zlatko-sikorsky-accused-body-in-a-barrel-murderer-dies-in-hospital-after-prison-brawl-c-1559092.amp

   


“Pro lifers go to hell, take cardinal pell as well”

https://gloria.tv/post/L4aec8A78VHe2kBBQHvfWVhAS

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://quadrant.org.au/chapter-and-verse-on-the-pell-lynching/]


Cardinal George Pell. Pedophile Protector. Now has a stack of pedophile accusers to deal with on top of a Royal Commission, the Victorian Police and now ABC News Australia, Australia’s National Broadcaster.

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://donaldelley.wordpress.com/2016/07/28/george-pell-demands-investigation-into-victoria-police-abc-over-sexual-abuse-allegations-2/]




"Those who do evil to others...the killers, the rapists, psychos, sadists...you will come to know me well. Frank Castle is dead. Call me...the Punisher."

https://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/04/call-me-punisher-pro-death-penalty-quote.html


  

OTHER LINKS:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-20/body-in-barrel-jail-assault-zlatko-sikorsky-dies-larissa-beilby/12870410

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8935099/Accused-girlfriend-killer-Zlatko-Sikorsky-critical-condition-prison-bashing.html

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/05/social-media-dangers-exposed-by-mom.html

Cardinal George Pell acquitted by High Court, freed from Barwon Prison April 7, 2020 By Mark Bowling https://catholicleader.com.au/news/cardinal-george-pell-acquitted-by-high-court-expected-to-walk-free-from-barwon-prison-today

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://quadrant.org.au/chapter-and-verse-on-the-pell-lynching/]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pell

“Pro lifers go to hell, take cardinal pell as well” https://gloria.tv/post/L4aec8A78VHe2kBBQHvfWVhAS

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/2759518700836745

PAKISTANI PEDOPHILE SOHAIL AYAZ SENTENCED TO DEATH IN PAKISTAN (NOVEMBER 18, 2020)

http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2020/11/pakistani-pedophile-sohail-ayaz.html

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3318648208257122

On this date, December 1, 2020, a Rangpur paedophile, Riyad Pradhan was sentenced to death for the 2016 rape and murder of eight-year-old Tanjila Khatun Chumki. He does not deserve to live and he should be hanged together with the Pakistani Paedophile, Sohail Ayaz.

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3371717176283558

http://soldierexecutionerprolifer2008.blogspot.com/2020/12/rangpur-paedophile-sentenced-to-death.html

PHOTO: https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/photos/a.2501153036673314/3371737176281558

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

PAKISTANI PEDOPHILE SOHAIL AYAZ SENTENCED TO DEATH IN PAKISTAN (NOVEMBER 18, 2020)

Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society. – Clint Eastwood 

            That quote from Clint Eastwood is so correct. The Pakistani Pedophile, Sohail Ayaz was sentenced to death for raping children in his country on November 18, 2020. He was already convicted of pedophilia in the UK was deported.

  

Sohail Ayaz, a paedophile who once worked for Save the Children UK before being deported, has been sentenced to death for abusing children in his native Pakistan


Save the Children paedophile who was deported to Pakistan after serving jail time in Britain is sentenced to DEATH in his homeland after 'confessing to raping 30 children'

·         Pakistani Sohail Ayaz convicted of paedophilia in the UK in 2009 and deported

·         He was re-arrested in home country in 2019 and accused of raping 13-year-old

·         Police say he confessed to raping 30 other children and possessing child porn 

·         Ayaz has now been sentenced to death by hanging, with a date due to be set 

By Chris Pleasance for MailOnline and Afp

Published: 01:31 AEDT, 20 November 2020 | Updated: 03:26 AEDT, 20 November 2020

A paedophile and Save the Children worker who was deported from Britain a decade ago has been sentenced to death in his native Pakistan. 

Sohail Ayaz was handed the sentence of death by hanging on Wednesday after police said he confessed to raping 30 children in the country. 

Officers also said they found tens of thousands of pornographic videos and images of children on computers belonging to Ayaz. 

Ayaz's offending began before his arrival in Britain in January 2008.

He had previously been convicted of molesting and photographing a 14-year-old boy in a country that cannot be revealed for legal reasons.

Ayaz - a qualified bookkeeper and accountant - was then given a job as a grants monitoring officer at Save the Children in London in November that year.

He was not subjected to a background check because his job did not involve directly working with children, though investigators believe he had long-term plans to qualify into a role that did involve contact.

Police were alerted to Ayaz after Italian cops arrested a paedophile who said Ayaz had provided him with the names of 15 Romanian children to be abused.

Italian police informed British counterparts who began their own investigation and surveillance of Ayaz.

He was arrested in February 2009 at the charity's headquarters and eventually sentenced to four years in jail after he admitting raping a 14-year-old boy. 

Police then found thousands of child porn images at his home in Barking, east London. 

Some of the images depicted six-month old babies and others showed 'distressed' youngsters being tied up or blindfolded. 

Ayaz admitted two counts of possession involving 397 indecent pictures of children and another 112 video clips, which police said had been gathered through file sharing on the 'dark web' with a network of other paedophiles.

Ayaz was sentenced to four years in jail, and was deported upon release. He was later convicted in Italy, and deported again, ending up back in his native Pakistan. 

He was then arrested in his home country in November last year and accused of drugging and raping a 13-year-old boy in an ordeal that lasted four days.

Police said Ayaz - who was working as a government consultant - had filmed the assault and distributed the video to a ring of other paedophiles.

Under questioning, officers said Ayaz admitted to kidnapping and raping 30 other children in various cities around the country.

Investigators said they had found tens of thousands of pornographic videos and images in a search of his home.

  

God takes no pleasure in the death of sinners, so as to delight simply in their death; rather, he delights to magnify his justice by inflicting the punishment which their iniquities have deserved. A righteous judge who takes no pleasure in condemning a criminal, may yet justly command him to be executed so that law and justice may be satisfied, even though it is in his power to procure him a reprieve. – George Whitefield, Letter to Wesley, Bethesda in Georgia, Dec. 24, 1740

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/02/can-angry-judge-be-just-our-fair-and.html


Handing down the sentence, Judge Jehangir Ali Gondal said: '[He] is like a malignant knot in the body of civil society and deserves nothing but a harsh surgical treatment.

'He shall be hanged by neck till his death, subject to confirmation of sentence of death by the Lahore High Court.

'The act of the accused is inhuman - worse than a beast, because even in the world of beasts there is no concept to ravage the innocence of cubs. 

'He deserves no leniency or sympathies in awarding the death sentence,' the judge declared in his order.

The sentence will now be sent to Lahore's High Court for confirmation, after which a date for the execution will be set. 

A spokesman for Save the Children said: 'Save the Children expressed its shock when Ayaz was convicted in 2009 of appalling child sex offences. 

'At the time of his conviction in the UK, the organisation also stressed that Ayaz had no access to children or their details while briefly working as an Assistant Grant Monitoring Officer. 

'He had been employed by Save the Children UK for 12 weeks in a role that did not involve direct contact with children. 

'Today, all Save the Children UK employees are subject to criminal checks. 

'We also share with other prospective employers information about individuals relating to any safeguarding misconduct.'

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https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3313430608778882

 

“Pro lifers go to hell, take cardinal pell as well”

 https://gloria.tv/post/L4aec8A78VHe2kBBQHvfWVhAS

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://quadrant.org.au/chapter-and-verse-on-the-pell-lynching/]


OTHER LINKS:

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2020/05/social-media-dangers-exposed-by-mom.html

Cardinal George Pell acquitted by High Court, freed from Barwon Prison April 7, 2020 By Mark Bowling https://catholicleader.com.au/news/cardinal-george-pell-acquitted-by-high-court-expected-to-walk-free-from-barwon-prison-today

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://quadrant.org.au/chapter-and-verse-on-the-pell-lynching/]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Pell

“Pro lifers go to hell, take cardinal pell as well” https://gloria.tv/post/L4aec8A78VHe2kBBQHvfWVhAS

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/2759518700836745

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

WARANGAL MASS MURDERER: SANJAY KUMAR YADAV SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR THE MURDER OF NINE PEOPLE (OCTOBER 28, 2020)

           On this date, October 28, 2020, Sanjay Kumar Yadav from Noorpur village in Begusarai district of Bihar was sentenced to death by a Warangal court for the murder of nine migrant workers belonging to West Bengal and Tripura at Gorrekunta village of Warangal Rural district on May 21 that year.

   

Death Penalty To Man Who Killed 9 To Cover Up 1 Murder!

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.gulte.com/trends/31811/death-penalty-to-man-who-killed-9-to-cover-up-1-murder]

             He is one of the worst of the worst mass murderers ever in India. He got what he deserved. Immanuel Kant was right here:

  

If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death. – Immanuel Kant

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2017/02/immanuel-kant-on-punishing-criminals.html

In Telangana’s Warangal, man sentenced to death for killing 9 to hide earlier crime

The mass murders that took place at Gorrekunta village of Geesugonda block on the outskirts of Warangal town created a sensation in Telangana. On May 20, the police recovered nine bodies from an abandoned well.

India Updated: Oct 28, 2020, 19:58 IST

Sanjay Kumar Yadav from Noorpur village in Begusarai district of Bihar was sentenced to death by a Warangal court for the murder of nine migrant workers belonging to West Bengal and Tripura at Gorrekunta village of Warangal Rural district on May 21.(ANI PHOTO.)

A local court in Telangana’s Warangal district on Wednesday sentenced a 25-year old migrant worker from Bihar to death for allegedly murdering nine other migrant labourers in May this year in a bid to cover up another murder he had committed earlier.

Warangal first additional district court judge Jaya Kumar delivered his judgement, awarding a death sentence to accused Sanjay Kumar Yadav for the gruesome killings, including six members of a family on May 20.

The Warangal police booked Yadav under seven sections of the Indian Penal Code and filed the charge sheet within 25 days of the FIR being registered. Yadav confessed to the crime during the trial. In all, the court cross-examined 98 people, including 68 witnesses, before pronouncing the judgement.

   

The victims of Sanjay Kumar Yadav

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://ythisnews.com/aur/rafiqa-ke-kumar-yadav-se-na-jaaez-taluqaat-ne-kayi-masoom-afraad-ki-jaan-leli]


The mass murders that took place at Gorrekunta village of Geesugonda block on the outskirts of Warangal town created a sensation in Telangana. On May 20, the police recovered nine bodies from an abandoned well.

Warangal city police commissioner V Ravinder said the deceased were identified as Md Maqsood (55), his wife Nisha (48), sons Shahabad Alam (21) and Sohail Alam (18), daughter Bushra (20) and her three-year-old son Shoaib (all from the same family from West Bengal), Sriram (21) and Shyam (22) from Bihar, besides Shakil (30) from Tripura.

All the elders were working in a gunny bag manufacturing unit at Geesugonda and staying in the same company premises since the enforcement of lockdown in March. The police initially thought they had died by mass suicide owing to financial constraints or some other family reasons.

Investigations later revealed that all the nine people were murdered by Yadav, also a migrant worker from Bihar, to cover up another murder he had committed in March – that of Rafiqa (37), a divorcee sister-in-law of Maqsood, with whom Yadav had an illicit affair.

The police said Yadav had killed Rafiqa on their way to West Bengal at Nidubrolu in Andhra Pradesh’s West Godavari district on March 6 and quietly returned to Warangal.

When other family members of Maqsood grew suspicious about Rafiqa being missing even after two months, Yadav decided to eliminate them. He mixed sleeping pills in their food and after they fell asleep, bundled them in gunny bags and dumped them in an abandoned well, the police said.

The prosecution produced all the evidence before the court, including footage from Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras showing Sanjay Kumar Yadav coming to the victims’ house at 5.30 pm on May 19 and leaving the next morning at 6.30 am.

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https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/in-telangana-s-warangal-migrant-sentenced-to-death-for-killing-9-to-hide-earlier-crime/story-VT2KkX0nU1Ymwah6hTJ2KL.html

  

Sanjay Kumar Yadav from Noorpur village in Begusarai district of Bihar was sentenced to death by a Warangal court for the murder of nine migrant workers belonging to West Bengal and Tripura at Gorrekunta village of Warangal Rural district on May 21.(ANI PHOTO.)


Death penalty for man who killed nine people and dumped bodies in Telangana well

The police had said that Sanjay Kumar Yadav carried out nine murders to cover up the killing of a woman related to a family.

Court Wednesday, October 28, 2020 - 16:44

Sanjay Kumar Yadav, accused of killing nine persons of a family and dumping their bodies in a well at Telangana’s Warangal district, was awarded the death sentence on Wednesday by the First Additional District Sessions Judge, Warangal, K Jayakumar. The police had said that the man carried out nine murders to cover up the killing of a woman related to the family.

The Warangal police arrested the 24-year-old on May 25, four days after the nine bodies were recovered from the well. The police had filed a 475-page chargesheet and lined up 67 witnesses to prove their case against the accused. The court completed the trial within 36 days after receiving the chargesheet, reported Telangana Today. The accused can however, approach the High Court to challenge the death penalty.

 

The police had said that Sanjay Kumar Yadav carried out nine murders to cover up the killing of a woman related to a family.

It was the second month of the coronavirus lockdown and the peak of the migrant worker crisis on May 21, when four bodies of a migrant worker family from West Bengal were found in an agricultural well at Gorrekunta village in Geesugonda mandal of Warangal (Rural). At the time, police suspected that the family killed themselves over financial distress brought about by the lockdown.

The police sought assistance from a forensic team, deployed sniffer dogs and began an investigation. On the second day, five more bodies emerged from the well. The suspicion of mass murder was confirmed when scratch marks were found on the bodies by the forensics team, indicating that the bodies were dragged to the well. Six special teams were formed to crack the case.

On the first day, the police recovered the bodies of 48-year-old Maqsood, his wife Nisha, their two-year-old daughter and a relative, Bushra Khatun. On the second day, the police recovered the bodies of Maqsood's two sons, a friend of the family and two other men who were employed at the gunny bag manufacturing factory where the family worked and lived.

Investigations and CCTV footage led police to Sanjay who is said to have confessed to killing nine people, six of whom were from a single-family. Sanjay, a native of Bihar had been working at Warangal for the past six years and was in a relationship with a 37-year-old Rafiqa, a niece of Nisha. On March 6, the couple was en route to West Bengal to meet Rafiqa's family for talks about marriage. The police said that Sanjay gave her buttermilk laced with sleeping pills, strangulated her and threw her out of the train.

He then returned back to Warangal and told Nisha's family that Rafiqa had gone to a relative’s house in West Bengal. Nisha did not believe Sanjay's statement on Rafiqa's whereabouts and threatened to file a police complaint about her missing niece.

The police said that on May 20, Sanjay visited Maqsood's home to attend his son's birthday celebrations and mixed sleeping pills in the food consumed by six family members and three guests. Once the nine persons fell unconscious, Sanjay dragged each of them into the agricultural well near the factory between 12.30 am and 5 am, according to investigation officials. He left with their cell phones after confirming that all of them had drowned.

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https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/death-penalty-man-who-killed-nine-people-and-dumped-bodies-telangana-well-136357

Photos of victims in phone sealed killer’s fate

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/photos-of-victims-in-phone-sealed-killers-fate/articleshow/78921152.cms]


OTHER LINKS:

https://www.gulte.com/trends/31811/death-penalty-to-man-who-killed-9-to-cover-up-1-murder

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/photos-of-victims-in-phone-sealed-killers-fate/articleshow/78921152.cms 

Thursday, September 24, 2020

CHRISTOPHER VIALVA EXECUTED FOR THE 1999 MURDER OF TEXAS COUPLE (SEPTEMBER 24, 2020)

On this date, September 24, 2020, Christopher Vialva was executed in U.S. prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, by the US Federal Government. He was convicted of the 1999 murders of Texas Couple, Todd and Stacie Bagley in 1999.


Christopher Vialva, 40, is set to receive the death penalty on Thursday at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was convicted 20 years ago for the 1999 murders of two youth ministers

Christopher Vialva executed for 1999 murder of Texas couple, the seventh federal execution since July

Michael Tarm

Associated Press

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — A man who killed a religious couple visiting Texas from Iowa was executed Thursday, the first Black inmate put to death as part of the Trump administration's resumption of federal executions.

Christopher Vialva, 40, was pronounced dead at 6:42 p.m. EDT after receiving a lethal injection at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana.

He was 19 years old in 1999 when he shot Todd and Stacie Bagley and burned them in the trunk of their car. Vialva's lawyer, Susan Otto, has said race played a role in landing her client on death row for slaying the white couple.

Vialva was the seventh federal execution since July and the second this week. Five of the first six were white, a move critics argue was a political calculation to avoid uproar. The sixth was Navajo. 

In the video statement released his lawyers released Thursday, Vialva expressed regret for what he'd done and said he was a changed man.

"I committed a grave wrong when I was a lost kid and took two precious lives from this world," he said. "Every day, I wish I could right this wrong."

Vialva's mother, Lisa Brown, spoke at an anti-death penalty rally Thursday morning across from the prison where her son was later put to death.

"This is the first venue I've had in which I could say to Todd and Stacie's family, I am so sorry for your loss," said Brown, who was expected to witness her son's execution.

Federal authorities executed just three prisoners in the previous 56 years. Death penalty foes accuse President Donald Trump of restarting them to help stake a claim as the law-and-order candidate. 

Otto said one Black juror and 11 white jurors recommended the death sentence in 2000 after prosecutors told them Vialva led a Black gang faction in Killeen, Texas, and killed to boost his gang status. That claim, Otto said, was false and only served to conjure up menacing stereotypes. 

"It played right into the narrative that he was a dangerous Black thug who killed these lovely white people. And they were lovely," Otto said in a recent phone interview. 

  

 

A portrait of Stacie and Todd Bagley on the tombstone of Stacie Bagley’s grave in Dyersburg, Tenn., on Sept. 18, 2020.


According to court filings, the Bagleys were on their way home from a Sunday worship service during a visit to Texas when Vialva and his teenage accomplices asked them for a lift after they stopped at a convenience store — planning all along to rob the couple.

After the Bagleys agreed and began driving away, Vialva pulled out a gun and told the couple: "Plans have changed."

After stealing their money, jewelry and ATM card, the teens locked the Bagleys in the trunk of their car as they drove around for hours trying to withdraw money from ATMs and seeking to pawn Stacie Bagley's wedding ring. The Bagleys pleaded for their lives from the trunk.

The teens eventually pulled to the side of the road and poured lighter fluid inside the car. As they did, the Bagleys sang "Jesus loves us" in the trunk. Vialva, the oldest of the group, donned a ski mask, opened the trunk and shot the Bagleys in the head. Stacie Bagley, prosecutors said at trial, was still alive as flames engulfed the car.

Questions about racial bias in the criminal justice system have been front and center since protests erupted across the country following the death of George Floyd  after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed his knee on the handcuffed Black man's neck for several minutes.

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A report this month by the Washington, D.C.-based Death Penalty Information Center  said Black people remain overrepresented on death rows and that Black people who kill white people are far more likely to be sentenced to death than white people who kill Black people.

Of the 56 inmates currently on federal death row, 26 — or nearly 50% — are Black, according to center data updated Wednesday; 22, or nearly 40%, are white and seven, around 12% were Latino. There is one Asian on federal death row. Black people make up only about 13% of the population.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/09/24/christopher-vialva-black-man-death-row-lawyer-argues-racial-bias/3519379001/

   

Todd and Stacie Bagley, left and right, were murdered by Christopher Andre Vialva


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'I believe when someone deliberately takes the life of another, they suffer the consequences for their actions, Todd Bagley´s mother, Georgia, wrote in a statement released after the execution.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8770649/Feds-Black-inmate-death-execution-restart.html

A portrait of Stacie and Todd Bagley on the tombstone of Stacie Bagley’s grave in Dyersburg, Tenn., on Sept. 18, 2020.

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3145401272248484

https://theintercept.com/2020/09/20/federal-executions-christopher-vialva/

Candlelight for the two victims

https://www.facebook.com/VictimsFamiliesForTheDeathPenalty/posts/3152501258205152

https://www.facebook.com/LifesparkJustice/photos/a.2060617870925244/2738535539800137/

https://wikispro.com/christopher-vialva-wiki-bio-age/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/122251488/todd-bagley

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30076708/stacie-lynn-bagley