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~ Christopher Wilkins, 11Jan17 (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: December 30, 2016, 11:22 am
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Offender Information
Name
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TDCJ Number
Date of Birth
Date Received
Age (when Received)
Education Level (Highest Grade Completed)
Date of Offense
Age (at the time of Offense)
County
Race
Gender
Hair Color
Height
Weight
Eye Color
Native County
Native State
Prior Occupation
Truck Driver, Backhoe Operator, Welder's Helper, Pipe Fitter's
Helper.
Prior Prison Record
None.
Summary of Incident
On 10/28/2005 in Tarrant County, Texas, the subject fatally shot
a 33 year old Hispanic male and a 40 year old Black male in a
moving vehicle. The subject was arrested by the Fort Worth
Police Department.
Co-Defendants
None
Race and Gender of Victim
33 year old hispanic male and 40 year old black male.
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Re: ~ Christopher Wilkins, 11 Jan '17 (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: December 30, 2016, 11:26 am
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Execution Set for Condemned Killer of 2 in Fort Worth--
September 27, 2016
A 47-year-old man on Texas death row for the slayings of two men
in Fort Worth almost 11 years ago has been set for execution in
early January.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said
the agency has received orders from a Tarrant County court
setting Christopher Wilkins for lethal injection Jan. 11.
Wilkins was scheduled to die last October until prosecutors
asked his date be withdrawn to resolve questions about DNA
statistics during trial testimony.
Evidence showed Wilkins escaped from a Houston halfway house in
October 2005, stole a truck and drove to Fort Worth. He was
convicted of fatally shooting two men there for duping him into
buying a phony rock of crack coke.
Wilkins is among at least five Texas inmates with execution
dates.
HTML http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Execution-Set-for-Condemned-Killer-of-2-in-Fort-Worth-394959211.html
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Re: ~ Christopher Wilkins, 11Jan17 (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: January 11, 2017, 7:23 pm
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Texas carries out first U.S. execution of 2017--
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas on Wednesday put to death an
inmate convicted of killing two men over a drug deal, the first
U.S. execution of 2017.
Christopher Wilkins, 48, was declared dead at 6:29 p.m., 13
minutes after a lethal injection of pentobarbital.
Before the drug was administered, he twice mouthed "I'm sorry,"
to two relatives of one of the murder victims as they watched
through a window. He gave no final statement.
Wilkins had explained to jurors at his capital murder trial in
2008 how and why he killed his friends in Fort Worth three years
earlier, saying he didn't care if they sentenced him to death.
Wilkins was released from prison in 2005 after serving time for
a federal gun possession conviction. He drove a stolen truck to
Fort Worth, where he befriended Willie Freeman, 40, and Mike
Silva, 33.
Court records show Freeman and his drug supplier, who wasn't
identified, duped Wilkins into paying $20 for a piece of gravel
that he thought was a rock of crack coca*ne. Wilkins said he
shot Freeman on Oct. 28, 2005, after Freeman laughed about the
scam, then he shot Silva because he was there. Wilkins'
fingerprints were found in Silva's wrecked SUV and a pentagram
matching one of Wilkins' numerous tattoos had been carved into
the hood.
Wilkins also testified that the day before the shootings, he
shot and killed another man, Gilbert Vallejo, 47, outside a Fort
Worth bar in a dispute over a pay phone, and about a week later
used a stolen car to try to run down two people because he
believed one of them had taken his sunglasses.
"I know they are bad decisions," Wilkins told jurors of his
actions. "I make them anyway."
Wes Ball, one of Wilkins' trial lawyers, described him as
"candid to a degree you don't see," and had hoped his appearance
on the witness stand would have made jurors like him.
"It didn't work," Ball said.
While awaiting trial, authorities discovered he had swallowed a
handcuff key and fashioned a knife to be used in an escape
attempt.
"This guy is the classic outlaw in the model of Billy the Kid,
an Old West-style outlaw," said Kevin Rousseau, the Tarrant
County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Wilkins.
Twenty convicted killers were executed in the U.S. last year,
the lowest number since the early 1980's. That tally includes
seven executions in Texas — the fewest in the state since 1996.
Wilkins was among nine Texas inmates already scheduled to die in
the early months of 2017.
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