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~ James Bigby, 14Mar17, (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: March 8, 2017, 1:47 am
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Archive 2006: James Bigby returns to Death Row--
October 8, 2008
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James Eugene Bigby is returning to his home of nearly 15 years:
Death Row.
A Tarrant County jury of six men and six women sentenced Bigby
to death Tuesday afternoon for the 1987 murders of Mike Trekell
and his infant son, Jayson, a year after an appellate court
overturned his 1991 death sentence.
Minutes after the sentence was read, Trekell's sister, Deborah
Jameson, fought back tears as she read a victim-impact statement
to Bigby. She promised Bigby that "God's will" would be done to
him.
"Now keep this in your mind, this court is the authority," she
read. "May you stop these appeals. May you stop this begging and
heed the punishment delivered."
Bigby, now 51, was first convicted and sentenced to death in
1991 for shooting Trekell, who was cooking steaks for himself
and Bigby, and drowning 4-month-old Jayson in a bathroom sink.
That jury convicted Bigby just hours after he grabbed a loaded
gun from a drawer in state District Judge Don Leonard's bench,
charged into Leonard's chambers and pointed the gun at him.
Leonard, a prosecutor and a bailiff eventually wrestled the gun
away from Bigby.
The former Kennedale auto mechanic appealed the decision.
Defense attorneys had put on witnesses who testified that Bigby
was a paranoid schizophrenic.
But the jury rejected Bigby's insanity defense.
Last year, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Bigby's
conviction but overturned his sentence, saying it violated a
1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that juries should consider
mitigating factors, such as mental illness, when deciding
whether a defendant should die. The court said that paranoid
schizophrenia is a severe mental illness, and that Bigby had
proved he had the illness at the time of the crimes.
Bigby is also accused of killing Frank Johnson, 33, of Arlington
and Calvin Crane Jr., 38, of Fort Worth shortly after killing
Trekell and Jayson. Those cases are pending.
On Tuesday, a jury deliberated for about four hours before
handing down the death sentence. Bigby's attorney, Wes Ball,
said Tuesday that an appeal is automatic.
Crane's only son, Kevin, who was 16 when his father was killed,
also addressed Bigby on Tuesday. Kevin Crane testified during
the trial that the stress from his father's death gave him
abnormally high blood pressure. He said he's on the list to
receive a new heart and lungs.
"There is no guarantee I'll survive, but I hope I live long
enough to see that justice for my father will be served," Kevin
Crane said after the jury was dismissed. "Both Bigby juries were
fair. My father did not have a judge and jury the night [ Bigby]
took him from us."
During closing arguments Tuesday, prosecutors said Bigby needs
to die because he is a ruthless yet cowardly killer.
"He's a back stabber," said Assistant District Attorney Charles
Mallin. "He kills them when they're not looking."
Ball didn't dispute Bigby's actions but said that his client was
treated three times for mental disorders before the killings.
"We read the newspaper where people will kill people to steal
wallets or kill to sexual assault someone or kill because they
are enraged," he said. "That's not what we have here. It makes
no sense. There was no rationale other than he had a mental
illness."
Bigby's attorneys contend that he shouldn't be executed because
his paranoid schizophrenia and frustrations about a workers
compensation claim led to the killing spree.
Prosecutors said drug use and his aggressive personality led to
the killings.
"He made the choice to do the drugs," Mallin said. "Evidence
clearly showed that the use of methamphetamines aggravated his
behavior."
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Re: ~ James Bigby, 14Mar17, (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: March 14, 2017, 10:38 pm
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Texas executes James Bigby, 61, who shot his friend and then
drowned his baby in a sink in Christmas Eve killing spree--
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
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James Bigby, 61, was put to death by lethal injection for
killing Michael Trekell and his infant son Jason in a Christmas
Eve killing spree 30 years ago.
He was pronounced dead just after 6 p.m. in Huntsville in Texas
on Tuesday, becoming the fourth inmate to die in the state this
year.
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