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Abilene Capital Murder (6 counts), Arson, Assault (9 incidents) and Death Threats (6 incidents)        Like most "pro-choicers," Gregory Lynn Summers was a real sweetheart.        He enjoyed kicking his first wife in the stomach when she was pregnant because he didn't want a child. He visited his hospitalized grandmother and terrorized her, only leaving when she gave him money. He threatened his own father with death many times, saying that he would burn down his house with him in it. He also beat his children and his second wife regularly, one time holding a cocked pistol to her head and making her beg for her life.        Eventually, Summers got tired of making idle threats, and decided to put them into action. His adoptive parents, Gene and Helen Summers, lived in their Abilene home with Billy Mack Summers, Gene Summers' brother, who they were caring for because he was mentally handicapped.        Summers stood to collect $24,000 in insurance benefits when his adoptive parents died, so he figured it was a good investment to pay paroled burglar Andrew Cantu almost half of it — $10,000 — to murder them and burn their house down. He was motivated by the fact that Gene Summers, who had bailed him out of his financial difficulties repeatedly, had decided to stop doing so.        On June 11, 1990, Cantu visited the home and did a methodical job. He stabbed all three of the occupants a total of 24 times and then burned the house down. Naturally, Summers never paid him for the murders.        In May 1991, a jury convicted Cantu of capital murder and sentenced him to death. In August 1991, a jury convicted Summers of capital murder and sentenced him to death.        On February 16, 1999, the State of Texas executed Andrew Cantu by lethal injection. On October 25, 2006, the State of Texas executed Gregory Lynn Summers by lethal injection.        On the day of Summers' execution, Arbie McAliley, the victims' niece, said These were real people that we all loved very, very much. Justice was served, we believe in our hearts. There was nothing inhumane about this at all tonight. He got a better treatment than what he gave our three loved ones. It was brutal what they did. The only regrets we have is we had to sit and wait for something we knew was coming. References:  "Son Convicted of Hiring Man to Kill Parents is Executed; Appeals Delay Injection for Texan Also Guilty in Uncle's Stabbing Death." Dallas Morning News, October 26, 2006; Michael Graczyk. "Convict Executed for Slayings of Parents, Uncle." Houston Chronicle, October 26, 2006; "Italians Work to Honor Inmate's Wishes; Texas Man Put to Death Wanted His Burial Near Pisa." Houston Chronicle, October 28, 2006. Alto Bonito Murder        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Alto Bonito, Texas.        16-year-old Brenda Lee Monjares had just finished her freshman year of high school and was pregnant by her boyfriend Jairo Garza, who was just thirteen years old. Garza's parents let them live in their home in Alto Bonito, about forty miles West of McAllen on the Mexican border, after they learned that Brenda was pregnant.        On December 7, 2003, Garza shot Brenda and killed her. The motive is unknown, but Brenda's parents had begun to suspect that Garza was abusing their daughter. Reference:  The Texas Council on Family Violence. "Texas Women Killed by their Intimate Partner in 2003," downloaded from http://www.tcfv.org/pdf/womenkilled/2003.pdf on March 19, 2008, page 22. Austin Aggravated Assault and Destruction of Property (2 incidents)        In May 1993, Abortionist Peter Kropf carried a 12-gauge shotgun and an automatic handgun to a pro-life prayer vigil. He pointed the shotgun at the pro-lifers and police and refused to put it down when police ordered him to. During the same prayer vigil, a pro-abortion woman destroyed two pro-life signs. References:  "Gun-Toting Abortionist Arrested," Life Advocate" May 1993, page 19; "Pro-Abortion Violence: A Growing National Phenomenon." Life Advocate, July 1993, pages 10 to 15. Assault with a Deadly Weapon (ADW)        A pro-abortionist attacked sidewalk counselor George Wooley with a weed eater, holding it to his neck. A weed eater is capable of cutting down young trees having trunks of perhaps one-half inch in diameter. Reference:  Operation Rescue National, Violence and Disruption Report, December 10, 1994. Beaumont Capital Murder, Feticide, Robbery, Assault (5 incidents), Death Threat, Attempted Escape, Reckless Endangerment (2 counts), Aggravated Battery, Battery of a Juvenile, Battery on a Police Officer, Threatening Bodily Injury, Carrying a Concealed Weapon, Grand Theft Auto, Forgery, Theft, Possession of Cocaine (2 counts), Possession of Marijuana, Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle, Criminal Trespass, Disturbing the Peace, Eluding Police, and Resisting Arrest (2 counts)        Kevin Lee Zimmerman was a real sweetheart, just your typical "pro-choice" male. He liked to get drunk, and he was the meanest drunk imaginable. He had a long history of starting fights with his loved ones and even with perfect strangers, and beat and kicked his pregnant wife so badly that she miscarried.        On October 23, 1987, Zimmerman, George Weber, and Kay Gonzales were staying at a Motel 6 in Beaumont. They met Leslie Hooks, Jr., who was also staying at the motel. After having drinks, they began to argue, and Zimmerman and Weber attacked Hooks with a knife, stabbing him 31 times and killing him.        Zimmerman was arrested and, while jailed, wrote letters to his prosecutor confessing that he had stabbed Hooks for money. He also had the bad judgment to write to his trial judge and graphically describe how he was going to kill him. Zimmerman also botched an escape attempt from Death Row in 1992 when he tried to saw through a recreation yard fence.        George Andre Weber was found guilty of murder and sentenced to 85 years in prison.        In June 1990, a Jefferson County jury convicted Zimmerman of capital murder and sentenced him to death. Kevin Lee Zimmerman was executed by the State of Texas by lethal injection on January 21, 2004.        Hooks' daughter Kasheena said From my point of view, I believe the man deserves to get exactly what my daddy did. The man knew his consequences when he did what he did, so now he needs to pay. ... I remember sitting in his lap, and we was playing pattycake, and I remember he told me that he loved me, and we opened the presents together. Every Christmas is hard. Every holiday's hard. Every birthday's hard. Every day's hard.        Zimmerman had previously been convicted of reckless endangerment (twice), aggravated battery, battery of a juvenile, battery on a police officer, threatening bodily injury, carrying a concealed weapon, grand theft auto, forgery, theft, possession of cocaine (twice), possession of marijuana, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, criminal trespass, disturbing the peace, eluding police, and resisting arrest (twice). References:  "Acadiana Man Faces Execution." The Lafayette Daily Advertiser, January 20, 2004; "Condemned Inmate Who Received Reprieve Last Month Executed." Houston Chronicle, January 21, 2004; "Texas Executes Third Inmate This Month." Reuters News, January 21, 2004; Associated Press. "Inmate Who Received Reprieve Last Month Executed." January 22, 2004. Brazoria Murder, Burglary, Tampering with Evidence and Child Neglect        DeShone Boler was married, but was committing adultery with 22-year-old Emily Garrison, who was pregnant with his child. Boler's wife, Crystal Michele, was understandably unhappy with this cheating, so she decided to take action.        So she went to Garrison's home, beat her up with a gun, bit her severely on the shoulder, stabbed her in the neck with a knife, and finally shot her five times.        Emily Garrison's body was found March 17, 2003, after her 3-year-old daughter, locked out of the apartment, knocked on a neighbor's door. Police later learned the child spent the night in her mother's car.        Both husband and wife were arrested shortly thereafter and both were charged with murder, burglary and tampering with evidence. They were held in lieu of $725,000 bond each.        Later, Justice of the Peace Sharon Fox signed the order dropping charges of murder, burglary of a habitation and tampering with evidence against DeShone, after Brazoria County District Attorney Jeri Yenne said that there was not enough evidence against him to proceed. "At this point in time it's clear that Crystal is the primary actor," Yenne said. "The evidence that we collected goes directly to Crystal Boler."        Crystal Michele Boler pleaded builty to murdering Emily. References:  Michael Wright. "Charges Dropped." The Facts, June 25, 2003; "Couple Charged in Slaying." San Antonio Express-News, March 29, 2003; Michael Baker. "Friend: Boler Planned Revenge." The Facts [Brazoria County, Texas], January 14, 2004. Brownsville Kidnapping, Rape (12 incidents), Assault (6 incidents) and Forced Abortion (2 incidents)        We hear lots of lovely prattle from the pro-abortionists about how "reproductive rights" are the first rights for women; about how women simply cannot live their lives without abortion; and about how prenatal child lynching adds greatly to the dignity of women.        This database includes many examples of how individual men use abortion to cover up their rapes and their patterns of incest with girls as young as ten years old.        As bad as these cases are, they pale against the horrors of institutional and systematized forced abortion used against women right here in the United States — by the "institution" of sexual slavery.        To the best of our knowledge, no 'pro-choice' individual or organization has ever spoken out against forced abortion used in the context of sexual slavery. However, we sometimes hear about forced abortion from activists who battle sexual slavery all around the world.        For example, a speaker described one pitiful case at a Honolulu conference on trafficking in women and children in November 2002. Deputy Secretary Claude A. Allen of the Department of Health and Human Services told an audience of 300 activists the tale of a 13-year-old Mexican girl tricked into prostitution in the United States.        This girl, waiting tables in a small Mexican town, was persuaded that she could make 10 times more in Texas. Two men told her that they would arrange immigration papers and transportation, promised to find her another job if she didn't like the first one, and would bring her back if she got homesick.        She and several other girls walked for four days and nights through the desert and across the Rio Grande to Brownsville, Texas, and then men drove them to a trailer in a deserted area of Florida.        Allen continued: "Only then was the little 13-year old girl told that she had been sold to a brothel and would have to work off her debt by sexually servicing men. She was a virgin, and she didn't know what they were talking about, but she knew it was bad, so she refused. She was then brutally gang-raped to induct her into the business."        Allen said that, for the next six months, she was forced to service 10 to 15 men a day. "Twice she was impregnated, twice forced to have an abortion, and twice she was back in the brothel the next day," Allen told the hushed audience in the convention center. The traffickers circulated her through trailer brothels and private parties, where she was passed around. She was pistol-whipped and raped if she resisted.        The girl was finally rescued when two girls ran to neighbors who called police.        Allen said that "She had multiple sexually transmitted diseases, scar tissue from the forced abortions, and was addicted to drugs and alcohol. She had posttraumatic stress syndrome, including severe depression and suicidal thoughts. She was physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually broken. ... This is a modern-day form of slavery."        Sexual slavery is a huge business, generating an estimated $7 billion for the traffickers. It would not be anywhere as near as lucrative without the very useful tool of abortion.        Kevin Bales, a researcher and author, says that "There are more slaves today than at any time in history," with 27 million people in one form of slavery or another.        Throughout Asia, women and children are forced not only into prostitution but marriage, domestic service and factory work. Because policy in China generally limits families to one child, and girls are often aborted or killed, there are about 115 men to every 100 women.        Indian brothels use an estimated 200,000 women from Nepal. Guesses about prostitutes in Thailand range from 200,000 to 800,000, many imported from Burma, China, Laos and Cambodia.        A South Korean activist, Young Sook Cho, alleged that the 37,000 U.S. troops there were the root of her country's prostitution. In response, Maj. Gen. Ronald Lowe, chief of staff of the Pacific Command here, said troops were being advised that soliciting a prostitute violated South Korean law and U.S. military regulations, and they can go to jail for it.        You can imagine for yourself how effective this threat was. Soldiers from any nation on foreign soil traditionally use prostitutes, and could not care less whether they are in the 'trade' voluntarily or not.        The sexual traffickers range from organized-crime syndicates like the Mafia, Japan's yakuza and Chinese triads to "mom-and-pop" operations. Most prostitutes are tricked rather than forced into leaving home with promises of good jobs. Traffickers forge documents, arrange sea or air transport, have safe houses to hide the women, and sell them to bars, brothels and massage parlors.        "It's the reverse of the underground railroad the Abolitionists used to free slaves in the American South," an anti-slavery activist explained. Once at their destinations, women are isolated because they don't know the language or customs, and are threatened with arrest if they leave brothels. Corrupt immigration officials, police and travel agents abet the trafficking.        The misery of the 13-year-old girl described above is enough to make the knees of any decent person weak.        But have we heard a single word of opposition to forced abortion in the context of sexual slavery from any 'pro-choice' group?        From the National Organization for Women, which has? delete        From the National Abortion Federation, whose clinics presumably abort these slaves on a regular basis?        Or from NARAL?        No, we have not.        And we are likely never to hear such condemnation.        After all, there's a lot of money to be made aborting sex slaves!        And, to "pro-choicers," that is all that counts. Reference:  Richard Halloran. "The Rising East: Millions Victimized by Modern-Day Slavery." The Honolulu Advertiser, November 19, 2002. Corpus Christi Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Retaliation and Violation of a Protective Order        On September 1, 2005, Bruce Wayne Gerard picked up a butcher knife and repeatedly stabbed his pregnant ex-girlfriend, 17-year-old Stephanie Reyes, seventeen times in the stomach, neck, head, side and arms. She testified in court that she was thinking about her baby as Gerard attacked her. She said "I'm screaming at him, at him, saying 'Stop, what are you doing,' I was saying 'Wayne, think about the baby, stop' ... I was screaming. ... I didn't want to sit down ... I kept worrying more about the baby and worrying if I was going to make it or not . ... I told them [hospital staff] 'you all do what you have to do but you save my baby,' and that's all I was worried about when I was laying on that bed."        Stephanie slipped into a coma for 17 days, and lost her preborn child during this time.        Gerard was charged with capital murder, burglary of a habitation with intent to commit aggravated assault, violation of a protective order, and retaliation.        On March 29, 2006, prosecutors dropped the capital murder charge against Gerard because doctors could not testify that her preborn child was viable since she had only been six weeks pregnant at the time of Gerard's attack.        On April 4, 2006, Gerard was found guilty of aggravated assault, and was sentenced to prison for twenty years. References:  Reporter Jozannah Quintanilla. "Stephanie Reyes Testifies About Being Stabbed." KRIS Television 6 News [NBC, Corpus Christi, Texas], March 28, 2006; "Bruce Gerard's Murder Charges Dropped In Fetus Death: Doctors Could Not Testify That Baby Was 'Viable'." Corpus Christi Caller-Times, March 30, 2006; Nancy Martinez. "Prosecutors Need Specific Proof to Convict in Murder of Unborn." Corpus Christi Caller-Times, April 9, 2006. Corsicana Capital Murder (3 counts), Arson, Assault, Cruelty to Animals, Burglary, Grand Larceny, Carrying a Concealed Weapon, Public Intoxication, Entering a Building with Unlawful Intent, Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor (3 counts), Driving Under the Influence and Shoplifting        There was plenty of evidence that "pro-choicer" Cameron Willingham didn't like children, whether they were born or unborn. He wasn't particularly fond of animals, either. During his multiple murder trial, witnesses testified that Willingham abused his wife and little daughters verbally and physically, and that at one time he beat his pregnant wife with a telephone in an effort to make her suffer a miscarriage. One of his friends also testified that Willingham once bragged about brutally killing a dog.        Willingham and his wife had three beautiful young daughters — two-year-old Amber Louise Kuykendall and 1-year-old twins Karmon Diane Willingham and Kameron Marie Willingham.        On December 23, 1991, Willingham distributed an accelerant around various parts of his home and set it on fire — with his three little girls sleeping inside.        One of Willingham's neighbors testified that, instead of trying to rescue his daughters, he "hollered about his car" and ran to move it away from the fire. One of the firefighters who had been at the scene testified that Willingham was upset that his dart board had been burned. The next day, he was sifting through the debris of his home while playing music and laughing. Later, he used the proceeds from an insurance policy he had taken out on the girls to buy a new pickup truck.        Willingham admitted to a fellow inmate that he had burned the house with the girls inside to conceal evidence that he had physically abused them.        Pat Batchelor, who was Navarro County District Attorney when the murders took place, said "I can't think of a more horrible case. All you had to do was see the pictures of little babies. Anybody that can do that, you just think: My God, what kind of sadistic monster is this?"        John Jackson, the prosecutor in Willingham's case, said that "In my opinion, Willingham was an utterly sociopathic individual. He had a lifestyle that really didn't include care and nurturing of children. And, in my opinion, the children were just an impediment to his lifestyle."        A jury found Willingham guilty of three counts of capital murder and sentenced him to death.        Willingham had a long record of petty crime before he murdered his three little girls, including convictions for burglary, grand larceny, carrying a concealed weapon, public intoxication, entering a building with unlawful intent, contributing to the delinquency of a minor (3 counts), driving under the influence and shoplifting.        The State of Texas executed Cameron Todd Willingham by lethal injection on February 17, 2004. When he saw his ex-wife Stacy Kuykendall outside the execution chamber, he said to her "I hope you rot in hell, bitch." References:  Willingham v. State, 897 S.W.2d 351 (Texas Court of Appeals, 1995) (direct appeal); Loyd Cook. "Willingham Date Set: Execution of Child Killer Set for Feb. 17." Corsicana Daily Sun, December 30, 2003; Michael Graczyk. "Execution Preceded by Tirade; Man Directs Obscenity-Laced Language at His Former Wife." Houston Chronicle, February 17, 2004; Michael Graczyk. "Texas Executes Man for Killing Daughters." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 17, 2004; Michael Graczyk. "Father Who Killed 3 is Executed." San Antonio Express-News, February 18, 2004. Dallas First-Degree Murder (9 counts), Rape (6 counts), Kidnapping (5 counts), Sexual Assault (2 counts), Felony Bribery, Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol (2 incidents), Making Terroristic Threats and Burglary (14 counts)        "Pro-choicer" Kenneth Allen McDuff is often called "The Poster Boy for Capital Punishment" and "The Broomstick Murderer." He is the only person in U.S. history to be sentenced to death, released, and then sentenced to death for a different crime.        In 1965, McDuff was sent to prison for a year for fourteen counts of burglary. The next year, shortly after his release, he and Roy Dale Green kidnapped Mark Dunman, 15, Robert Brand, 17, and Louise Sullivan, 16, from a ballpark near Dallas/Fort Worth where Louise was practicing parallel parking for her driving test. McDuff and Green threatened them with a gun and crammed all three of them into their car trunk. McDuff and Green drove them to a secluded pasture, where he stopped and took Louise out of the trunk. McDuff forced her into the trunk of his car and then shot Robert twice in the head and Mark once in the head, once in the face and once behind his ear, killing them both while they begged for their lives. Then McDuff and Green drove away with Louise.        They drove to another remote area, where McDuff and Green took Louise from the trunk, raped her repeatedly, and sexually assaulted her with a Coke bottle and a broom handle. Green then held Louise on the ground while McDuff slowly strangled Louise by crushing her windpipe with the broomstick. Then they dumped her body in a field.        McDuff was sentenced to death for his crimes, but the United States Supreme Court ruled against the penalty, and so his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in 1972. he was released in 1989 after fifteen parole hearings. While in prison, he was convicted of felony bribery for offering $10,000 to a parole board member to secure an early release.        He did not wait long before returning to his murderous ways.        Within days, he was charged with two DUIs and making terroristic threats against a group of Black teenagers.        On December 29, 1991, he kidnapped, raped and murdered 28-year-old accountant Colleen Reed, and, on March 1, 1992, he kidnapped and murdered Melissa Northrup, who was pregnant and the mother of two.        McDuff was finally arrested in Kansas after being profiled on "America's Most Wanted" on May 1, 1992, and was sentenced to death — again.        McDuff is the prime suspect in at least nine other murders. He located the bodies of Regenia Moore, Brenda Thompson, Colleen Reed and Valencia Ray Joshua for police in exchange for a reduced sentence for his nephew on a drug charge.        McDuff has cirrhosis of the liver and chronic hepatitis, and said that "I consider myself dead. I'm just waiting to be buried. I've seen a guy die of a liver ailment. It was one of the worst things I've seen in my life."        At least McDuff accomplished something worthwhile — if only directly. Because of him, Texas launched a massive overhaul of its parole system to make certain nobody like him would ever escape the system again. These new laws are collectively known as "McDuff Laws."        On November 17, 1998, the State of Texas executed McDuff by lethal injection. Reference:  Gary M. Lavergne. Bad Boy from Rosebud: The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuff [Texas A&M University Press: 1999]. Capital Murder (5 counts), Murder (2 counts), Attempted Murder (2 counts), Death Threats (6 incidents), Arson, Menacing, Assault on a Child (2 incidents), Assault (3 incidents), Inciting to Riot, Animal Abuse (2 incidents), Possession of a Deadly Weapon, Attempted Burglary, Possession of Contraband and Drug Paraphernalia (3 counts), Possession of Marijuana, Disorderly Conduct, Destruction of Property, Vandalism and Use of Intoxicants [Garland]        Even by "pro-choice" standards, Daniel Joe Hittle was a maniac.        When he was in high school, he tortured and killed a neighbor's dog because it would not stop barking.        In 1972, he lived in Minnesota with his adoptive parents. When his father's dog scratched his pickup truck with its claws, he shot both his mother and his father to death. Then he grabbed the dog, tied it to a tree, tortured it and shot it, and left it hanging there. He showed no remorse for these murders, and told a friend that killing people was not that exciting, or just not that big of a deal to him. He was convicted and spent eleven years in prison for the murders of his parents. When he was arrested for the murders, he told the police officer "I will remember you when we meet again." Hittle had also threatened the lives of police officers on at least two other occasions.        He was convicted of his parent's murders in 1973 and sentenced to thirty years in prison. He was not exactly a model prisoner. He was charged with possession of a deadly weapon, possession of contraband and drug paraphernalia (three times), disobeying a direct order (twice), interfering with a shakedown, possession of marijuana, interfering with a correctional officer, disorderly conduct, inciting other inmates to riot, destruction of property, arson, use of intoxicants, and assault. Incredibly, despite all of this, he was paroled in 1984 after serving only eleven years.        Hittle abused his first wife terribly. On one occasion, he was drunk and she refused to give him his car keys, so he pointed a loaded shotgun at her, then struck her one-year old daughter in the face. He liked to abuse the little girl as well. Once he gave her a doll, then one day took it away from her and tied it over her playpen in a hangman's noose. He also taunted his wife with the fact that he was committing adultery. When she became upset, he beat her and choked her almost to death after bringing in the little girl to watch the abuse.        His second wife fared no better. He routinely beat her, and when she was nine months pregnant, deliberately kicked her hard in the stomach. During their wedding shower, he struck her when she didn't clean up a mess she had made. He also struck her baby daughter across the face and refused to support them — he would rather spend his income on alcohol.        On November 15, 1989, Hittle was speeding, and Garland police officer Gerald Walker stopped him. When Walker stepped up to Hittle's pickup truck, Hittle shot him in the chest with a shotgun at point-blank range. Hittle then drove to the home of Mary Goss, his drug dealer. With nothing to lose now, Hittle kicked in the door and murdered everyone in the house — Goss, Richard Cook Jr., Raymond Gregg, and even Goss's 4-year-old daughter, Christy Condon. He had to reload in order to murder the terrified little girl.        He did not know that Officer Walker had radioed in his license plate number, and when police gave chase, he ran his truck off the road and wrecked it, then began shooting at the police until he ran out of ammunition.        A jury convicted Hittle of capital murder in the killing of Officer Walker. He was not tried for the other four murders.        Dallas Assistant District Attorney Toby Shook said that Hittle was "Obviously a very violent, vicious human being," and another prosecutor, Andy Beach, added "A poster boy for the death penalty. He is the classic sociopath."        The State of Texas executed Daniel Joe Hittle by lethal injection on December 6, 2000. Reference:  The Clark County [Indiana] Prosecutor's office maintains a detailed file on every one of the murderers who have been put to death in the United States since 1976 here. Capital Murder (6 counts)        On December 19, 2003, Emmanual Rogers, Sheldon Roberts and Brandon Shaw, members of a Dallas street gang, decided to retaliate for a shooting that had taken place during a robbery the previous day. So they traveled to an apartment where Virginia Ramirez, who was nine weeks pregnant, was living. She had two visitors at the time, Heath Laury and Jessica Thompson. The three gang members then shot all three people in the apartment, and, of course, Virginia's preborn baby was killed as well.        On February 4, 2005, a jury convicted Rogers of two counts of capital murder. A medical examiner said that Virginia's preborn child had been alive when she was murdered. Rogers was sentenced to two life terms in prison. On May 19, 2005, a jury convicted Roberts and Shaw of two counts of capital murder, and they also were sentenced to two life terms in prison.        Jurors agreed that the preborn child should be considered alive and a victim in the shooting, the Dallas Morning News reported. Prosecutor Eric Mountain said that "They weren't looking for proof that the baby was alive at the time of the mother's death."        Stacey Emick, Texas Right to Life's legislative director, said that "Complete recompense for such a heinous crime is unattainable; however, the ruling in this case sets a new standard, marking the first time that the penalties of The Prenatal Protection Act will be applied. Perpetrators who kill pregnant women in Texas will be charged with the murder of both the mother and the unborn child. The message is now clear: Harming pregnant women in Texas is a serious crime with steep repercussions." Joe Pojman of Texas Alliance for Life said that he hopes "by publicizing the prosecutions of these brutal acts, mothers and their unborn children will be better protected because would-be criminals will understand the consequences of their gruesome acts. Prosecutors are currently using the law in other areas of Texas, including Lufkin, Houston, El Paso, and Round Rock." References:  "In Brief: Man First Convicted Under State's Fetal Protection Law." Texarkana Gazette, February 6, 2005. Steven Ertelt. "Texas Man Convicted Under Unborn Victims Law for Killing Pregnant Woman." LifeNews.com, February 7, 2005; "Two More Men Convicted in Gang Slayings, Get Life in Prison." WOAI Television 4 News [NBC, San Antonio, Texas], May 5, 2005. First-Degree Murder (3 counts), Suicide and Death Threat        In July 2001, the three-year marriage between 26-year-old Danny Dehoyos and his 18-year-old wife Hortencia Rodriguez was in deep trouble. Hortencia had said that she was going to divorce Dehoyos, and he threatened to murder her and then kill himself. He went to Hortencia's home and threatened her with a shotgun on July 24.        On the evening of August 13, 2001, Dehoyos followed through with his threat. He fatally shot Hortencia, who was pregnant with their third child, and then heartlessly murdered their two young daughters, Celeste, who was not even two years old yet, and Valerie, who was just seven months old.        Then Dehoyos took the easy way out. He put the gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger.        Police discovered all of the bodies of the murdered family in a minivan outside an elementary school. Dehoyos survived for a short period of time, but died later at Methodist Medical Center.        Police spokesman Sergeant Hollis Edwards commented that "He didn't want to break up with her, he didn't want to leave. The complainant stated that the suspect came to the house, angry that she was going to file for divorce. He said, `If I can't have you, nobody can.' He also said he would kill himself, too." References:  Matt Curry. "Murder-Suicide Followed Husband's Attempt to Reunite with Wife." The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, August 14, 2001; The Texas Council on Family Violence. "Texas Women Killed by their Intimate Partner in 2001," downloaded from http://www.tcfv.org/pdf/womenkilled/2001.pdf on March 19, 2008. [Grand Prairie] — Murder (2 incidents), Suicide and Attempted Murder        Terrence Mabry and his pregnant girlfriend Faye Spencer lived in a Grand Prairie apartment with her three small children. On April 15, 2001, Mabry's 15-year-old brother Tristan was visiting them.        Mabry used a handgun to shoot Tristan in the back and then shot Faye. She managed to call police and identify her killer, and the police could hear shots being fired in the background. When police arrived at the scene, Mabry shot at them, and finally killed himself.        Faye and Mabry died on the scene. Tristan managed to get out of the apartment, but he died on the way to the hospital. References:  Associated Press. "Gunman Kills Himself after Fatally Shooting His Girlfriend and His Brother." The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, April 16, 2001; The Texas Council on Family Violence. "Texas Women Killed by their Intimate Partner in 2001," downloaded from http://www.tcfv.org/pdf/womenkilled/2001.pdf on March 19, 2008. Murder (2 counts), Assault (3 counts), Driving While Intoxicated, Eluding Police and Evading Arrest [Irving]        27-year-old Amy Amel Sabeh-Swift was eight months pregnant and looking forward very much to having her baby. But it was not to be.        On April 30, 2003, her husband, Christopher Jay Swift, came home after quitting his job at a concrete company because he refused to take a drug test. He stabbed and strangled Amy to death in front of her five-year-old son. He then took the boy with him to the home of 61-year-old Sandra Stevens Sabeh, Amy's mother, and strangled her as well, also in front of the little boy.        Swift then left the scene of his second murder and went to a Days Inn in Dallas, where he abandoned the little boy the next day. The boy was wandering the lobby and hotel staff let him watch television and gave him breakfast. After he started to get frightened, the staff called police. When they arrived, the little boy said "Daddy killed mommy and he killed grandma, too."        Swift was arrested on May 2, and made a full confession. He did not put up a rigorous defense, and seemed willing to accept responsibility for what he had done.        On January 30, 2007, the State of Texas executed him.        Amy and Christopher had been married for about six years. Four days after they had been married, he began a four-year prison sentence for assaulting a Texas state trooper in 1996 and a Denton County woman in 1997. He had also pleaded guilty to assault for shoving and choking his first wife in 1996, driving while intoxicated, and fleeing a police officer. In 1992, he pleaded guilty to evading arrest. References:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2003." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007; "Texas Carries Out Third Execution of the Year." KWTX Television 10 News [Central Texas], January 30, 2007. Murder and Attempted Suicide        22-year-old Ilaria Solarzano was eight months pregnant. She and her boyfriend, Francisco Farias, had had a history of domestic violence, according to police. Something pushed Farias over the edge and, on December 15, 2002, Farias used his AK-47 assault rifle to murder Iliara, and then shot himself in the head, gravely wounding himself. He continued to breathe after being removed from life support, and a jury found him mentally incompetent and unfit to stand trial. He will remain in a state hospital for the rest of his life. Reference:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2002." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007. Murder and Statutory Rape        Teshibra Bell, who was only 15 years old, met a man at a convenience store in Southern Dallas. The man, pro-abortionist Shannon Meshack, was 25 years old and had a reputation as a "ladies man." Bell became infatuated with Meshack and eventually began skipping school and sneaking out of her house to meet him. She eventually began to have sex with him. Her family tried to discourage the relationship and contacted authorities about her truancy, but refrained from filing statutory rape charges with the police.        In June 2003, Teshibra was five months pregnant with Meshack's baby. She was looking forward to having the child, but Meshack did not want a child. So he strangled Teshibra. He then dragged her body into his back yard, piled up some debris, and tried to burn her. He told firefighters who responded to an unconscious person call that he was burning material in his back yard to repel mosquitoes, said Sgt. Larry Lewis of the Police Department's homicide unit.        "One of the firemen saw a body in a back room covered up" with a sheet, Sgt. Lewis said. "He apparently had taken her outside and, with some sort of accelerant, tried to set her on fire. We think that he was trying to burn her ... and maybe seeing the fire trucks or hearing them, he brought the body back inside the house. He was telling the firemen there was nothing in there."        On June 23, police arrested Meshack and charged him with Bell's murder. The next day, the Dallas medical examiner's office ruled that Bell died from homicidal violence, including strangulation. Although Meshack can be charged in the death of Bell, prosecutors won't be able to charge him with the death of Bell's preborn child.        Octavia Fields had raised Teshibra from the time she was in elementary school. Once Bell found herself pregnant, she hid the pregnancy. Fields said she continued to try to persuade Bell to leave Meshack, but she wouldn't. "He didn't want her to have the baby," Fields said.        Mike Hannesschlager, director of the Texas Christian Coalition, told LifeNews.com that "The murderer of Teshibra Lysha Bell is in fact guilty of the murder of two people — Ms. Bell and her unborn baby. Bell's life was taken in her youth, and her baby's life was taken before birth. Both lives are precious in God's sight, and are beyond price." References:  Jason Trahan. "Man Suspected of Killing Girlfriend, Burning Body: Girl, 15, was Halfway Through Pregnancy, Authorities Say." The Dallas Morning News, June 24, 2003; Steven Ertelt. "Texas Man Kills 15-Year-Old Girlfriend After Getting Her Pregnant." LifeNews.com, June 25, 2003. Capital Murder and Death Threat        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Dallas, Texas.        On January 26, 2006, one of 28-year-old Demetria's Johnson's six children called police because they had found her unconscious. Paramedics rushed her to Charlton Methodist Hospital, but she died along the way. She was five months pregnant.        The children told police that Demetria and her husband, Gerald, had fought the night before. There had been trouble before; in November 2005, police had been called to the home when Gerald had threatened to kill his wife and burn down the home.        Later that day, police arrested Gerald Johnson and charged him with capital murder.        Neighbor Olivia Hudson said "They were there everyday, and she dressed them and kept them clean. ... That's what saddens me the most, that the babies were there." Another neighbor, Rita Young, said that "Any individual who would do something like this has no conscience." References:  Rebecca Lopez. "Husband Arrested in Pregnant Wife's Murder." WFAA Television, January 26, 2006; "Police Charge Man with Pregnant Wife's Death." NBC Television 5 [Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas], January 27, 2006. Capital Murder        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Dallas, Texas.        18-year-old Shaniqua Renea Perry was five months pregnant.        On the evening of October 19, 2006, Shaniqua and her boyfriend Marcus Moseley were at Lagow Park and got into an argument over whether her preborn child was his. As Dallas police Sergeant Ray Beaudreault said, "They were having an argument at the park and having a discussion about whose baby it was." Then Moseley shot Shaniqua in the face. A homeless woman heard the shot and saw Moseley standing over her. She asked Moseley if he was going to call 911, and he just looked at her and walked away.        Shaniqua and her preborn child died at the scene.        Moseley, with gun in hand, fled to a nearby bus stop and tried to get on a bus, but the driver, seeing the gun, refused to let him on the bus. He threw the gun away and got on the bus. When the bus stopped ten minutes later, police who were waiting for Moseley arrested him.        Shaniqua's father, Michael, said "It don't make any sense. Why would he kill my baby? She was just as happy to be pregnant by him and have his child. He killed her and the child, his child. There's no way out of that, there's no way. ... I don't want to see him. Don't need to go by, talk to him. I need justice for my child."        Police charged Moseley with capital murder. References:  "Police: Man Who Shot Pregnant Girlfriend Charged." NBC Channel 5 News [Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas], October 20, 2006; Holly Yan. "Police Arrest Suspect in Deaths of Woman, Fetus." The Dallas Morning News, October 21, 2006. Murder [Lake Dallas]        Denise Ann Johnson was five months pregnant by her boyfriend, Steven Russell Wiederhold. He decided one day that he would get rid of her and their preborn child permanently, so that nobody would ever find them. So he stabbed and suffocated Denise, mixed up a batch of cement, stuffed her body into a 55-gallon steel barrel, and filled the barrel with the cement. After the cement had hardened, he planned to haul the barrel to the Red River and dump it. However, the barrel weighed more than seven hundred pounds and hauling it was quite a chore, so he instead dropped it off on a rural road about four miles North of Thackerville, Texas.        On June 13, 2003, Oklahoma investigators, acting on a tip, found the barrel and identified the badly decomposed remains as those of Denise.        Jessica Brown of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said that "The initial information that Lake Dallas police had was that she was dismembered, but she wasn't. "The body was in an advanced state of decomposition as you can imagine. It takes a while for them to determine a cause of death if they ever can."        Police then arrested Wiederhold near Wichita, Kansas. He had bragged to two acquaintances that he had murdered Denise.        They then discovered that Samantha McCoin, Wiederhold's former common-law wife, was also missing.        In July 2004, a jury found Wiederhold guilty of murder and sentenced him to life in prison. References:  "Remains in Barrel Identified: Oklahoma Authorities Say Body found in Love County are Those of Missing Lake Dallas Woman." The Daily Ardmoreite [Ardmore, Oklahoma], June 18, 2003; "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2003." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007. Fatal Botched Abortion        Abortionist Frederick S. Shields botched an abortion on Junette Barnes on July 8, 1988, who hemorrhaged, was transported to a local hospital, and subsequently died. He voluntarily surrendered his Texas license on allegations of drug and alcohol abuse. He failed to stop drinking alcohol as he agreed to subsequent to the death of Barnes. Reference:  Victoria County District Court Case #90-5-40, 939-C. First-Degree Assault (2 incidents) and Forced Abortion        Pro-abortionist Sandra Kenney was convicted of two counts of first-degree assault for hiring two men to beat up Naomi Baum, who was pregnant by Kenney's husband, and injecting her with cocaine and antifreeze to make her miscarry. She received 30 years in prison. Reference:  "Practicing Abortion Without a License." Life Activist News [Life Dynamics, Inc.], Fall 1997, page 13. Assault, Reckless Conduct and Theft        On August 7, 2004, a group of sidewalk counselors from Operation Save America - Dallas, including children and a baby, was picketing outside the Fairmount abortion mill in Dallas, Texas.        Suddenly, a woman walking into the abortion mill doused them with a can of pepper spray. Rev. John D. Reyes, Director of Operation Save America - Dallas, said that "The woman obviously had no value for any life whatsoever, born or unborn from the largest to the smallest that she would use this weapon upon gentle Christians, including a baby!"        The woman was later arrested by police and charged with reckless conduct.        But the pro-lifer's trials at the hands of violent pro-abortionists were not yet over that morning.        A man walking into the abortion mill attacked Dan Russell, who was carrying a camcorder. He pushed and pulled Dan, grabbed the video camera, and took it into the abortion mill. He only returned it (minus the tape) when police were called. He was charged with assault and theft. References:  "Gentle Christian Young People Assaulted then Pepper Sprayed Outside Dallas Abortuary!" Operation Save America news release, August 7, 2004; "Pro-Lifers Counseling outside Dallas Abortion Center Assaulted." LifeSite Daily News, August 10, 2004. Assault        In the Spring of 1992, pro-lifers were picketing the house of abortionist Norman Tompkins. Police were on the scene, and at one point the abortionist was talking with them while the abortionist's wife was sitting in her car at the location of the discussion with the police. Pro-lifer Rick Blinn walked up to the discussion to learn what was being said, and the abortionist's wife sprayed him with mace from inside her car. The police took Rick to a fire station for emergency eye irrigation. Rick pressed charges for assault. Reference:  Rick Blinn, telephone conversation with Lynn K. Murphy, December 8, 1994. El Paso Murder, Manslaughter, Assault, Death Threats (3 incidents), Grossly Botched Abortions (6 incidents), Felony Medical Record Altering, Insurance Fraud (2 counts) and Drug Abuse        During an abortion at the Southside Medical Center in El Paso on April 11, 1984, Raymond Showery tore Mickey Apodaca's uterus and severed her uterine artery. She hemorrhaged for two hours before Showery would allow her transfer to a nearby hospital. She bled to death during emergency surgery to remove her uterus. The prosecution charged that Showery used inadequately trained staff, failed to properly treat the tear, delayed treatment, and delayed Apodaca's transfer to a hospital. The abortionist refused to provide records to the grand jury on the grounds that they might incriminate him. He was indicted for manslaughter.        Amazingly, while Showery was in jail, six pro-abortion women protested in Showery's defense outside the courthouse, asserting that Showery "is a good man who helps the poor."        He performed this abortion while still on bail pending appeal of his conviction for murder in the case of a late-term aborted baby (weighing five pounds) who survived his 1979 abortion attempt. Showery deliberately drowned the viable baby.        The abortionist was found guilty in 1983 of the 1979 murder of a 7-month preborn child he aborted by hysterotomy. Employees testified that the infant girl had light brown hair, was about a foot long, and curled up in Showery's hand. An employee saw the infant apparently attempting to breathe as Showery held the placenta over her face. Showery then dropped her into a bucket of water. Employees testified that bubbles rose to the surface. Showery then put her in a plastic bag which was tied and put at the end of the operating room. The bag moved as though someone were breathing in it, then the bag stopped moving. One witness said he was holding the bag Showery put the infant in, and that he later put the bag in the freezer where fetuses were stored. Showery was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison, even though the body of the infant was never found and employees could not identify the patient upon whom the abortion was performed. Five former employees testified that they had seen Showery kill the infant. The jury chose to convict for murder even though they had the option of convicting for manslaughter. Despite all the witnesses, Showery denied all the allegations. He said "I never killed a baby, and if I'm not telling you the truth, may I die right now."        Showery's license was revoked in the wake of the murder conviction, as well as a 1981 conviction for insurance fraud (keeping the patient's insurance refund for two abortions). He had been on a 10-year probation since 1981 for inadequate records of prescribed drugs.        Showery had also been convicted of a felony charge of altering his hospital's records, which hindered state's attempts to locate the woman whose baby he had drowned. Former employees alleged that Showery falsified records on all patients over 20 weeks pregnant, saying they were all 20 weeks pregnant, and that such abortions were routine. One former employee, Gloria, said she assisted in abortions in which Showery would sedate the patient, dilate the cervix, and pull the fetus out with forceps. "He wanted them in pieces, but a lot of times they would come out whole," and that she saw signs of life in at least two fetuses aborted this way. Another former employee, Belinda, said she looked away as Showery removed a fetus through a hysterotomy incision, and that when she turned back Showery had placed the fetus in a plastic bag in a bucket "and just waited until it stopped moving." She said the fetus squirmed and wiggled for about 10 seconds. Former employee Anita alleged that for late abortions, "He walks in, closes the door, and locks it." She also said Showery instructed them "If you see any movement or anything, you don't see anything, you don't know anything," and that he asked employees to look away when the preborn child was extracted. A former employee said the fetuses would be put in plastic bags and frozen, that employees did not know what became them but that someone removed them from the freezer. An autopsy on a male fetus identified as Baby John Doe #81-01, found among other fetuses in the freezer at Showery's hospital, was inconclusive as to whether he was born live due to decomposition during thawing. The fetus was just over 2 pounds, just over 13 inches long, with sparse dark hair. The autopsy also found meconium, usually found in the intestine of full-term fetuses. Showery denied ever performing abortions after 20 weeks, and is quoted as saying, "If that baby takes a breath, that's life. Now the department of vital statistics comes into it and you fill out death certificates. It cried once. It took life. It took breath. It becomes a person. You cannot dispose of it with hospital wastage. It must go to the mortician and et cetera." The abortion mill where he worked never filed a single fetal death certificate.        Showery claimed indigence and asked the State to pay for his defense in his manslaughter trial in Mickey Apodaca's death. The prosecution showed that Showery was adept at transferring assets to hide them. His Defense claimed that legal fees had so depleted Showery's assets he had given one attorney his car and another his boat to pay legal fees. He was said to have traded his shares on Family Hospital for stock in a bogus Mexican mining operation. His sons circulated a letter among doctors and lawyers soliciting contributions to a defense fund. A police report was filed alleging burglars broke into Showery's house and safe, taking five handguns worth $200-$400 each, two rings worth about $500 each, a charge card, and some keys; police investigating the alleged burglary were hindered by Showery's attorney's private investigator who would not allow them to move freely about the home; officers could not find the point of entry into the house, and the safe did not appear to have been forced open. Showery was ordered to pay for his own defense. Showery had also filed for bankruptcy in 1976, claiming debts of about $2 million        In January 1978, Showery aborted patient "Ida." Soon after, she was told by her physician she was 19 weeks pregnant, so she returned to Showery to complain. He refused to complete the abortion for free as follow-up, telling Ida "he wasn't Sears. He didn't have to guarantee his work." The examination was so painful "Ida" described it as "like he just put his whole fist up there, just jammed it." Showery told "Ida" "You whores just get in trouble all the time." Showery performed the second abortion, and "Ida" awoke in a hospital bed in a pool of blood. One week later, she expelled 6 inches of umbilical cord and "a small, bloody four-fingered hand."        Showery also aborted "Cora," who woke up several hours after the abortion and was sent home. After complications set in, another gynecologist rushed her to an emergency room, where it was found she had fragments of the placenta in her bladder. Surgery revealed air and over two pints of fluids in her abdominal cavity, a 3/4-inch puncture of her bladder, and a 4-inch laceration of uterus and cervix. The gynecologist described her injuries as "very, very bad. If she had not come to the hospital ... she may have suffered severe shock, or worse, irreversible shock, from which you don't return. Death or a vegetative state."        The abortionist's patients were urged to abort immediately because the price of abortion increased $50 each week. Showery's staff report that he told them during "slow weeks" not to run pregnancy tests but to make them all positive. Patients who needed time to get the money were told to ignore any vaginal bleeding, "that the onset of a seemingly normal five-day menstrual period means nothing." The staff even fudged ultrasound tests to convince patients they were pregnant. One undercover agent reported alleged that, when her pregnancy test was negative, the ultrasound technician told her she was failing to menstruate due to a "mucous sac" which Showery could remove with a D&C. Another reporter alleged that she was told she had mucous plugging her cervix and Showery must do a $265 D&C to remove it. Another reporter was told the ultrasound showed a 10-12 week fetus, although an OB/GYN examined her and determined her later not to be pregnant. One reporter was menstruating at the time of her test and visit, and reported that Showery told her she was likely pregnant and to return in two weeks. Showery denied having anything to do with pregnancy testing, and when asked if he told employees to lie, said, "Well, that's absolutely naive even to ask such a question; to ask just like I've told you all up there, have I quit beating by wife. Did I put an ax to my mother's skull. If you intend to ask such an asinine question is to leave the situation with someone accused."        Showery "criticized the extensive counseling given in other abortion programs, saying it is frightening and unnecessary, and that counseling at Family Hospital is minimal." He said that "I'd do it just like that. If you sit down with a woman and counsel her all day long about abortion, she will probably say, "I've had enough," and leave." A reporter posing as a patient alleged: "I was not told of any risks. I was advised only of the cost of the procedure and the necessity for an appointment." When she returned with an editor posing as her husband and requested counselling from Showery, he told them, "We just put that sucker [abortion suction machine] in there and bam."        In an April 1981 news report, Showery said that "To my knowledge we have never had a serious problem or complication."        The local Rape Crisis lines eventually stopped referring to Showery's abortion mill due to the many complaints against him.        Reporters working on an investigation of Family Hospital alleged that, on March 3, 1981, "Showery followed them in his car and repeatedly veered toward their automobile, forcing them to the curb." They pressed charges and he was arrested. The District Attorney's office protested Showery's release on bond during trial for Mickey Apodaca's death because he'd threatened the prosecutor, a police detective, and a reporter covering Mickey's death. The detective said that "If I can make just one positive statement, it's that witnesses at the time showed that Dr. Showery was abusing drugs. And drugs can and will cause major changes in anybody."        On March 10, 1981, the abortionist was charged with operating a child placement agency without a license. The charge stemmed from a woman's adoption of a baby born at Family Hospital in December. She paid Showery $3,000 according to receipts, and he claimed the money went toward the maternity fees of the biological mother."        On March 6, 1979, Showery agreed to a permanent injunction, in essence admitting to such infractions as increasing his abortion prices after quoting a lesser total, refusing refunds, telling patients they required services actually not required, offering inferior maternity care as compared to the care he promised, and employing incompetent, unqualified and unlicensed persons to perform services which by law are required to be performed by licensed doctors and nurses. In May 1980, the Attorney General's office filed an amended petition alleging Showery had violated the final injunction.        The state filed suit claiming Showery owed $167.42 in personal property taxes, and a jewelry store filed suit in 1976 for failure to pay a balance of $5,405 on two Rolex watches and some jewelry. The owners of a building where Showery had an office filed suit against him, claiming that "Showery owed $2,000 in rent ... and that the doctor had taken doors, cabinets, draperies and office fixtures that he did not own. The report noted that all doors had been removed from their hinges. One of the building owners said Showery even removed light switches. They said that Showery left the premises "in a shambles," but dropped the suit because Showery was "judgement-proof."        A news story found that "His money is funneled into a growing art passion. He particularly loves the huge, sexually explicit surrealistic works of Raymond Douillet." Showery owned a number of works valued at from $40,000 to $50,000. "One of the Douillet paintings, which Showery said capture women "as they essentially are," depicts several nude women leaning forward with paint-brushes protruding from their rumps."        According to another news story, Showery is "an Adolph Hitler aficionado" who owns "quite an arsenal" of guns and read voraciously about Hitler. Showery said that "Hitler was one of the most misunderstood men in history. He was really a great man."        Showery said that the average employee of a local intensive care unit was "some filthy, degenerate, bearded weirdo smoking cigarettes ... hustling with the colored girl down the hall ... and reading a dirty book." He also said that "Sixty percent of the doctors in this town are foreign-educated, fresh off the banana boats," and said that the Ford Edsel failed because "it looks like a huge vagina rolling down the road" [El Paso Times, April 7, 1981].        A prominent El Paso physician told reporters he recommended Showery for medical school. When contacted by reporters, the physician asked that he not be named. Showery didn't finish his residency at Latter Day Saints Hospital because he reportedly "was dismissed from the hospital for showing a disregard for nursing staff."        To support his family, Showery became a professional wrestler called the "Chinese Bandit." He tried promoting professional wrestling, but both this venture and his karate school ended in financial insolvency. He was expelled from Southwestern General Hospital because he was unable to become board-eligible as a surgeon. He served as a part-time physician at the Planned Parenthood Center of El Paso during the mid- 1970s. References:  Associated Press, July 20, 1989; El Paso County Offense Report #00-380101; New York Times, April 29, 1984; Des Moines Register, May 5, 1984; El Paso Times, April 5, 6, 7, and 8, 1981, September 22 and 23, 1983, and April 7, 24 and 26, May 7 and June 5, 1984; Dallas Morning News, April 18 and 20 and May 3, 1984; Longview Morning Journal, May 6, 1984; Dallas Times-Herald, April 14, 1984 and September 29, 1983; Houston Chronicle, June 9, 1985; "Doctor Gets 15 Years in Infanticide Case." ALL About Issues, November 1983, page 35; At Deadline. "Convicted Abortionist Now Charged With Manslaughter in New Tragedy." ALL About Issues, June 1984, page 47; Debra Braun. "Abortionist Sentenced to 15 Years for Murdering Baby After Abortion." National Right to Life News, October 13, 1983, pages 1 and 13. Capital Murder        On November 18, 2005, Quinn Cruz shot Tanya West, who was pregnant, to death in a parking lot as she was putting her toddler girl into a car seat. He did not just shoot her on the spur of the moment or in a fit of anger; he calmly took careful aim and fired several times. He then fled the scene and led police on a 14-hour manhunt.        On September 27, 2007, a jury took less than two hours to find Cruz guilty of capital murder, and he was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. During the conviction and sentencing phases of his trial, Cruz was smiling.        Lawrence Felts, Tanya's brother, said that "It makes us feel somewhat happy in a sad moment. God brought us some kind of judgment. You know, it's just on Quinn that hopefully he repents and God will forgive him too I guess. ... Tanya was one of the most beautiful people in the world, and it's lesser of a place now that she's gone." Tanya's father, Lawrence M. Felts, said that "It's just pain, agony, depression, loss in a world, a lot of anger. ... She was always perky, and always perky, I mean she was just, she loved life, she really did. I guess it's always going to be inside me that I didn't come down, and protect her more than I should've. I'm going to have it inside of me forever. ... There's one thing I learned out of all of this: There is a God." References:  Daniel Novick. "Quinn Cruz Found Guilty Of Capital Murder." KFOX Television News [El Paso, Texas], September 27, 2007; Darren Meritz. "Ex-Reservist Gets Life for '05 Slaying of Woman." El Paso Times, September 28, 2007. Fort Worth Capital Murder (3 counts), Murder, Attempted Murder, Armed Robbery, Sexual Assault (7 counts) and Drug Dealing        Pro-abortionist Edward Lewis LaGrone had repeatedly molested ten-year-old Shakeisha Lloyd since she was only eight years old, and she learned that she was 17 weeks pregnant. He offered to pay $1,500 for her to get an abortion, because he wanted to cover up his sexual abuse.        Shakeisha's mother, Pamela Lloyd, noticed that her daughter's abdomen had expanded. The little girl said "Mommy, there's something moving around inside of me." A May 26, 2003 hospital examination confirmed that the girl was pregnant. Lloyd notified police that LaGrone had assaulted her daughter, and she demanded that LaGrone pay for an abortion.        LaGrone had been dating Shakeisha's mother while he was on parole from 1977 murder and drug dealing convictions. During that time, he had been molesting and assaulting Shakeisha.        Before dawn on May 30, 1991, the day after Shakeisha completed the fourth grade, LaGrone and three companions went to her house in East Fort Worth. Their intent was to kill everyone in the house to stop the filing of sexual assault charges against LaGrone. One of Lagrone's other girlfriends had bought the murder weapon for him. Shakeisha's uncle, Dempsey Lloyd, greeted them at the door, and LaGrone fired at him with a shotgun, hitting him in the arm.        LaGrone then opened fire on two elderly women, Zenobia Anderson, 83, and Caola Lloyd, 76, who was blind and bedridden with terminal cancer, killing them both.        Shakeisha paused to pick up her 19-month-old sister and shield her behind some boxes. She was shouting to her mother to hide when LaGrone walked up to her and shot her in the head, killing her instantly.        Steve Conder, a Tarrant County assistant district attorney, said the murders are among the most chilling in Fort Worth history. He said "If I hadn't worked on the case, it would be hard to imagine anything like this ever happening."        During the punishment phase, two of Lagrone's sisters testified that he had terrorized and sexually assaulted them at gunpoint in 1986.        LaGrone was executed on February 11, 2004, in Huntsville, Texas.        "He's a poster child to justify the death penalty," said David Montague, the Tarrant County assistant district attorney who prosecuted Lagrone. "Just a cold-blooded murderer. DNA evidence immediately linked him to the fetus of the girl who was killed."        In June 1993, Pamela Lloyd, whom Lagrone had supplied with crack cocaine, married Gene Anthony Tutt and murdered him in July 1999. She was convicted of murder and served a five-year prison sentence. She had previously served time for armed robbery. She said "Executing him won't bring back my baby and it won't bring back my aunts. But I don't even want to think about what I wanted to do to that man if I ever had the chance." References:  John Moritz. "Man Who Killed the 10-Year-Old He Impregnated Scheduled to Die." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, November 11, 2003; Edward Lewis LaGrone v. Douglas Dretke, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division, United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, No. 02-10976, filed September 2, 2003; John Moritz. "Mother Recalls Murder of Girl." Star-Telegram, February 9, 2004; Michael Graczyka. "Killer of Pregnant 10-Year-Old Set to Die Tonight." Houston Chronicle, February 10, 2004; Michael Graczyk. "Killer of 10-Year-Old He Impregnated Executed." Houston Chronicle, February 11, 2004. Capital Murder (2 counts), Assault (5 incidents), Death Threat, Destruction of Property, Delivery of Cocaine, Felony Probation Violation and Theft [Grandview]        Bobby Ray Hopkins abused his wife Kari frequently, but especially when he found out that she was pregnant. On December 1, 1988, Kari found out she was pregnant and happily told Hopkins, who began to beat her up. On one occasion, he grabbed her hair and pulled her across the concrete because she had gone over a speed bump too fast. Then he beat her head against a brick wall. This was especially cruel, since Kari had just delivered her baby by Cesarian section and still had stitches. On this occasion, he also grabbed one of Kari's friends and smashed her head against the brick wall.        On September 30, 1989, Hopkins pulled Kari out of a car and kicked her repeatedly, injuring her. Hopkins spent twenty days in jail as a result of this incident. Shortly before they divorced, Hopkins called Kari and threatened to kill her and her son. Hopkins then burned her clothes and possessions in the yard in front of the house.        Early in the morning of July 30, 1993, Hopkins entered the home of 18-year-old Sandi Marbut and her 19-year-old cousin Jennifer Weston. He went into a savage rage, stabbing Sandi over forty times as she struggled to survive. He then stabbed Jennifer 66 times. Then he prowled around the house looking for money to steal.        Hopkins had an extensive criminal record before the murders. He was in violation of parole for delivering a controlled substance, cocaine. On one occasion, Hopkins and another man pulled a driver out of his car and beat him. On another occasion, Hopkins had been charged with stealing two kegs of beer and a bottle of whiskey.        On October 1, 1993, Hopkins was indicted for two counts of capital murder. He pleaded not guilty, but a jury found him guilty on May 24, 1994. The next day, the court sentenced him to death.        The State of Texas executed Bobby Ray Hopkins by lethal injection on February 12, 2004. References:  Michael Graczyk. "Convicted Killer in Two Knife Slayings Executed." Houston Chronicle, February 12, 2004; Martha Deller. "Slain Teen's Dad Still Seeking Answers." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, February 12, 2004 Capital Murder (2 counts) and Assault (4 incidents)        During the early hours of February 19, 2005, Stephen Barbee traveled to the Fort Worth home of his girlfriend Lisa Underwood. He believed that she was pregnant with his child and, since Barbee was married, he wanted to cover up his adultery. He smothered Lisa by pressing her face into the living room carpet. But he wasn't done with his rampage yet. He grabbed Lisa's seven-year-old son Jayden, punched him hard in the face, and then smothered him the same way. He then took their bodies and dumped them in a wooded area of rural Denton County.        Prosecutor Kevin Rousseau said "Jayden couldn't run. You think of (Barbee) approaching that little boy and slapping him upside the head hard enough to leave a bruise, and then holding him down until he's dead, and I dare you to say there is a reason to save his life."        Lisa's mother, Sheila Underwood, addressed Barbee in a victim impact statement and said that "I want you to know I'm 53 years old and I don't have anything left. ... I want you to suffer like I suffer. You put me in hell."        On February 20, 2006, Barbee was found guilty of two counts of capital murder. On February 27, a Fort Worth jury of seven women and five men sentenced the murderer to death.        Lab tests showed that Lisa was not carrying Barbee's unborn baby after all. Lisa, however, believed that Barbee was the father of her baby, and only wanted Barbee, owner of two businesses, to have the baby covered on his health insurance.        During Barbee's trial, his first wife Theresa testified that he had physically assaulted her four times during their marriage, in one case giving her a concussion. References:  Associated Press. "Body Found in Case of Slain Pregnant Woman." February 22, 2005; Traci Shurley. "Barbee Sentenced to Die." Star-Telegram, February 27, 2006. Murder and Suicide [Arlington]        On December 20, 2005, police found Zana Danielle Leblanc, who was pregnant, dead of strangulation on the floor in the bedroom in her Arlington apartment.        Police charged her boyfriend, Don Wayne Moody, with murder in her death. Arlington Detective David Frias said that "There was some pattern of abuse that was going on there that was not reported to police. Some of her friends and co-workers knew about the abuse that was going on. She had said she was afraid to go home." Zana had been to a battered women's shelter in Dallas County because of physical abuse.        Like so many other pro-abortionists who murder their pregnant wives and girlfriends, Moody took the easy way out. Three days after he murdered Zana, he went to the Cortez Hotel in Laredo and shot himself. References:  Susan Schrock. "Warrant Issued for Boyfriend of Slain Woman." Forth Worth Star-Telegram, December 22, 2005; "Boyfriend Of Murdered Arlington Woman Found Dead." Channel 11 Television [Fort Worth, Texas], December 23, 2005. Murder [Arlington]        One of the reasons that "pro-choicers" fight so very hard to defend and promote abortion is because it is the perfect cover-up for older men who are molesting young girls. Nobody fights for "abortion rights" harder than men who are having affairs with young girls (often their own daughters) and who are cheating on their wives.        A textbook example was offered by Ronald M. Hill, who was 33 years old, married and who had four children at home. His lack of morals and his cunning allowed him to have an affair with a girl who was only fifteen years old.        On March 15, 2005, Hill visited 15-year-old Ingrid Smith, a Timberview High School student, at her South Arlington home with a pregnancy test, and demanded that she use it. When he found that she was pregnant, he demanded that she have an abortion. When she refused, he murdered her.        Hill was arrested and charged with murder. He did not help his defense attorneys very much when he bragged to his two Tarrant County Jail cellmates that he had killed her because the pregnancy test was positive and that she refused his demand to have an abortion. One of his cellmates testified that "He said he told her that she can't be pregnant because he had a wife and four kids. She just told him that she was [pregnant]."        On March 1, 2006, Hill pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after thirty years. References:  "Teen Girl Killed by Abuser for Refusing Abortion." Star-Telegram [Tarrant County and North Texas], March 3, 2006; "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2005." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007. Attempted Capital Murder        College student Dana Wilson was pregnant by a man she met on an Internet dating service, but did not want her baby. Her doctor knew this, and recommended that she put the baby up for adoption. But she did not want anyone else to have her baby. She did not bother to get an abortion, but instead attempted to perform a "fourth-trimester" abortion on her baby.        On November 14, 2003, she gave birth to a baby boy at her Hurst home. Then she wrapped her little newborn boy in a plastic shopping bag and tied it shut. Then she placed the smaller bag inside a black yard trash bag and tied that bag shut. Then she drove to a trash dumpster behind an animal clinic and dumped her son in it. A veterinarian found the little boy a few minutes later, soon enough to save his life, but not soon enough to spare him permanent neurological damage in the form of mental retardation and cerebral palsy brought on by blood loss and oxygen deprivation. After dumping her baby like trash, Wilson drove to Texas Wesleyan College for a class.        Phelesa Guy, a Tarrant County assistant district attorney, said "She felt it was her right to throw her baby away. She didn't want him; she hated him. What did he do to deserve all that? Nothing."        On June 23, 2005, a Tarrant County jury of seven women and five men found Wilson guilty of attempted capital murder, and the next day sentenced her to 20 years in prison. She will be eligible for parole after serving 10 years. Reference:  "Texas Dumpster Mom Gets 20 Years In Prison." Star-Telegram [Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas], June 25, 2005. Assault        Pro-lifer Chris Karamitros attempted to talk to Trey McMinn on the public sidewalk outside a Fort Worth abortion mill. Without warning, McMinn deliberately pushed Karamitros into traffic, where he fell onto his back in front of passing cars. McMinn pleaded "no contest" to the charges. Reference:  Anti-Life Report. "Anti-Life Judge Raises Furor in Fort Worth." ALL About Issues, September-October 1987, pages 13 and 14. Georgetown Capital Murder, Attempted Suicide and Assault (3 incidents)        Carlos Granados lived with his pregnant girlfriend Katherine Jiminez and her three-year old son Anthony. On September 13, 1998, they had an argument. Granados then attacked Katherine and stabbed her 27 times with a long kitchen knife, including slashing her throat. Then he went after the little boy and stabbed him to death. As she lay on the floor, Katherine heard Anthony scream "I don't want to die! Don't kill me! I don't want to die!"        Police forced their way into the apartment and arrested Granados. He had slashed his wrists and said to them "Shoot me, just shoot me."        Katherine survived her wounds and testified against Granados. One of his fellow inmates also testified that he calmly admitted that he had stabbed Katherine and killed her baby.        Katherine said that With everything coming up and all the emotions, the varied emotions, sometimes you try to put things away, especially the hurtful things — the screams, the last moments. "And right now, all of it has come up again and it's brought a lot of those emotions back — the anger, the why, the what-if. Do I want the courts to stop it [the execution]? Absolutely not. It needs to happen.        Granados was a typical "pro-choice" man, who used, abused and discarded women and children whenever the mood seized him. One of his many girlfriends testified that he punched her, grabbed her neck, and choked her. She also caught Granados kissing her thirteen-year-old sister, and she found bite marks and bruises on her three-year-old son after he visited Granados. Granados admitted to a case worker that he bit the boy.        Another girlfriend testified that Granados fathered a child with her but, of course, provided no financial support for his child. A family member testified that he assaulted him with a beer bottle and injured him.        In Texas, killing a child under the age of six is a capital offense. On April 25, 1999, a Williamson County jury sentenced Granados to death for capital murder. On January 10, 2007, the State of Texas executed Carlos Granados by lethal injection. References:  Texas Attorney General's Office. Media Advisory dated January 4, 2007, "Carlos Granados Scheduled for Execution;" Associated Press. "Convicted Murderer of Toddler Executed in Huntsville." Houston Chronicle, January 10, 2007; Michael Graczyk. "Convicted Murderer of 3-Year-Old Boy Put to Death." Dallas Morning News, January 11, 2007. Houston First-Degree Murder (5 counts)        Robert Coulson was bitter that his adopted father had refused to finance his windshield repair business. He joked about how he would gain his $600,000 inheritance if his entire family died prematurely.        So, on November 13, 1992, Coulson decided to go after the money. He disabled the members of his family one by one as they arrived at the house, tied plastic bags over their heads to suffocate them, and then soaked their bodies in gasoline and burned the Northwest Houston house down. In succession, Coulson murdered his parents, Otis and Mary Coulson; his sister Sarah; a pregnant Robin Wentworth, who was his own birth sister, and her husband Richard. He beat Robin and Richard severely on the head with a crowbar, and Robin had been six months pregnant.        Jared Lee Althouse, Coulson's roommate, eventually outlined how he assisted Coulson in committing the murders. He received twenty years in prison for his relatively minor role, which was buying the gasoline and a stun gun, dropping him off at the house, and providing him an alibi.        Coulson did not help his own defense when, at the funerals before his arrest, his sole concern was to settle the inheritance as soon as possible. At the funerals, he smiled, snapped his fingers, and did a little dance.        In June 1994, a jury found Coulson guilty of five counts of first-degree murder and sentenced him to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed his sentence in 1996.        The State of Texas executed Robert Coulson on June 25, 2002. References:  Mike Tolson. "Man Who Killed 5 in Family Executed." Houston Chronicle, June 25, 2002; David Carson. "Bob Coulson." June 26, 2002. Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Execution Information Center at http://www.txexecutions.org/reports.asp on November 6, 2007. Capital Murder (6 counts), Murder, Attempted Murder, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, First-Degree Assault, Robbery, Illegal Possession of a Loaded Handgun, Possession of Crack Cocaine, Possession of Marijuana, Drug Pushing, Eluding Police, Receiving Stolen Property (2 counts), Probation Violation, Burglary, and Giving False Identification        Marion Butler Dudley lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He ran a large drug ring, and would travel to Houston to buy large quantities of drugs from Jose and Rachel Tovar.        On June 20, 1992, Dudley and three other men went to the Tovar home for the purpose of purchasing three kilograms of cocaine. The Tovars only had one kilo, so the four men left. Dudley returned at sunset with Arthur "Squirt" Brown and Tony Dunson. At the Tovar residence were Jose and Rachel Tovar, 17-year-old Frank Farias, who was Rachel's son, Frank's 19-year-old girlfriend, Jessica Quinones, who was seven months pregnant, Nicholas Cortez, and a neighbor, 21-year-old Audrey Brown, who had just stopped by to visit.        Dudley and his companions bound all six of the people in the house, put nooses around their necks, and then shot them all in the head. Jose Tovar, Frank Farias, Jessica Quinones and Audrey Brown all died, and Rachel Tovar and Nicholas Cortez survived. Before he shot Jessica, Dudley said to her "You stupid bitch, don't you go into labor on me." Rachel Tovar managed to crawl to a neighbor's house for help.        The murderers fled the scene and went on the run, but on August 12, 1992, police arrested Dudley and Dunson while they hid in a mobile home in North Carolina. They had $30,000 in cash in their possession.        A jury convicted Dudley of four counts of capital murder. He had previous arrests or convictions for attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, first-degree assault, robbery, illegal possession of a loaded handgun, possession of crack cocaine, possession of marijuana, eluding police, receiving stolen property (2 counts), probation violation, burglary, and giving false identification.        The State of Texas executed Marion Butler Dudley by lethal injection on January 25, 2006. The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty fought Dudley's execution, saying that he had "no prior record," despite his long rap sheet, and that he dropped out of tenth grade and should not be executed since he was "particularly susceptible to the pressure to become involved in drugs."        Brown, who lived in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. Tony Lamone Dunson, also from Alabama, received a life sentence for capital murder. References:  Texas Attorney General Media Advisory dated January 19, 2006. "Marion Butler Dudley Scheduled for Execution;" "Woman to Watch Family Members' Killer be Executed." ABC Channel 13 Television, January 25, 2006; Michael Graczyk. "Alabama Man Executed for Texas Slayings." Fort Worth Star Telegram, January 25, 2006; Associated Press. "First Texas Inmate Put to Death this Year." Houston Chronicle, January 25, 2006, Murder (3 counts), Suicide, Kidnapping and False Imprisonment        24-year-old Justine Maxwell was pregnant. She had broken up with her old boyfriend, Robert Saulter, and now had a new boyfriend, Daniel Armantrout.        In 2003, Saulter kidnapped Justine and held her hostage at gunpoint for a week. Eventually he released her, but, on June 10, 2003, Saulter confronted Justine and Robert, shooting them both to death. Saulter was arrested and charged with the two murders, but eventually committed suicide in Brazoria County. References:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2003." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007; "Harris County Domestic Violence Fatalities, 1999-2004." Downloaded from the Web site of the Harris County Domestic Violence Coordinating Council at http://hcdvcc.org/community/1999_2004.pdf on October 28, 2007. Capital Murder, Felony Murder, Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Solicitation for Capital Murder, Aggravated Assault, Resisting Arrest and Driving Under the Influence        20-year-old Geremy Segrest got drunk one night in January 2005, and decided to take out his simmering frustrations on his wife Ashley Renee Korhoren, who was six months pregnant. First he punched her in the face and struck her with a lamp. She fled into a bathroom, and he kicked down the door and stabbed her in the stomach and chest. She delivered a baby in emergency surgery, but the baby, who she named Graham, died just three hours later. A medical examiner found that the baby had died from a stab wound in the back and premature delivery.        In April 2005, a Wharton County grand jury indicted Segrest for capital murder, felony murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Since that time, Segrest was also supposedly involved in a plot to kill another inmate, and, in April 2006, for soliciting the murder of his ex-wife from his jail cell.        On March 10, 2006, a special session of the Wharton County grand jury indicted Segrest for solicitation for capital murder, and a jury found him guilty of the charges.        In November 2004, Segrest had been charged with aggravated assault for threatening his family with a baseball bat, driving under the influence, and resisting arrest. References:  "Authorities Catch Suspect Plotting Plan to Kill Ex-Wife: Man Charged with Murdering Unborn Baby." KPRC Channel 2 Television News [NBC, Houston], March 14, 2006; Benjamin C. Sharp. "Change of Venue Sought in Segrest Murder Case." Wharton Journal-Spectator, April 12, 2006. Murder and Suicide        Elizabeth Trejo was four months pregnant and the mother of four other small children. On December 3, 2005, she and her boyfriend got into an argument. He shot Elizabeth to death and then killed himself. Police found her holding one of her smallest children, and found the boyfriend holding the gun he used to kill them both. Reference:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2005." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007. Capital Murder        According to police investigations and witness statements, the following events occurred in Houston, Texas.        In March 2006, Vellar Clark, III, shot his pregnant girlfriend Gwen Sneed to death and left her body lying in the street next to her motorcycle in a business district in North Houston. Gwen's family said that she had planned to end her relationship with Clark.        On November 7, 2006, Clark was arrested and jailed without bond on a charge of capital murder. References:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2005." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007; "Man Charged with Capital Murder in Pregnant Girlfriend's Slaying." KTRK Television 13 [Houston and Southeast Texas], November 8, 2006. First-Degree Murder        On October 23, 2000, Alex Erazo shot his girlfriend Kendy Palma to death in the apartment they shared. Kendy was about six months pregnant at the time. Erazo was tried and found guilty of murder by a Houston jury. He was sentenced to life in prison and fined $10,000 for Kendy's murder. References:  Erazo v. State, case no. 2206-02, decided June 16, 2004; "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2003." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007. Murder [Richmond]        On January 18, 2004, Dan Leach murdered his 19-year-old girlfriend, Ashley Nicole Wilson, who was pregnant with his child. He strangled her and hung her body in her apartment. Her mother discovered her body, and the medical examiner ruled her death a suicide. Leach left a letter written by Ashley near her body, which said that she was despondent because she was pregnant and the father did not want to help raise the child. This was intended to make people think she had killed herself.        After seeing Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of the Christ" on March 7, 2004, Leach felt severe remorse for his murder, and confessed to it. He said that he killed Ashley because she was pregnant with his child and he did not want to be involved with her anymore or care for their child. Leach said "And so, after watching that movie, I was very emotional, and so I thought about the things I had done."        Leach was released after his confession while police investigated and was arrested after a grand jury indicted him.        Leach told police he learned how to disguise the killing from the television crime show CSI.        On August 13, 2004, after a five-day trial, Dan Leach II was sentenced to 75 years in prison for the murder of his pregnant girlfriend, at least half of which he must serve. The victim's mother, Renee Coulter, said to Leach "May you rot in jail or Hell, whichever is worse." References:  "Christ Movie Moves Man to Confess Murder." Yahoo! News, March 26, 2004; "Viewing "The Passion of the Christ" Motivates Man to Confess to Murder of Mother and Unborn Child." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, March 26, 2004; Ron Nissimov and Eric Hanson. "`Passion' Case May Test New Law: Murder Suspect Could be State's 1st Prosecution in Death of Fetus." Houston Chronicle, March 27, 2004; Eric Hanson. "Passion Killer Gets 75-Year Sentence: Prosecutors Had Pushed for Life Term in Death of Young Woman." The Houston Chronicle, August 14, 2004. Murder        According to police evidence, on January 11, 1999, David Mark Temple shot his pregnant wife, Belinda Tracie Temple, in the back of her head at close range with a shotgun. Then he hid her body in a bedroom closet and telephoned police to tell him that their home had been burglarized. Belinda was eight months pregnant with their second child. He then claimed to find her body in the closet.        On November 29, 2004, Temple was arrested while he was driving to work and was charged with murder, and was later indicted by a grand jury. His trial is set to begin in November 2007. He was charged with only one count of murder, since Texas's Unborn Victim of Violence Act was not retroactive before it was enacted in 2003. References:  "Husband Of Pregnant Murder Victim Charged In Case." KPRC Television 2 [Houston], November 30, 2004; "Grand Jury Indicts H.S. Coach in Pregnant Wife's Murder." KPRC Television 2 [Houston], March 1, 2005; "Temple Trial Delayed Until November." The Katy Times, September 29, 2007. Murder        According to police investigations and witness statements, the following events occurred in Houston, Texas.        The marriage between Sherry Arnold and her husband Howard Holmes was, by all accounts, not a happy one, even though they had been married only two months. According to neighbor Arlene Rittmel, "I think he would drink and he would get drunk and they would just argue about different things. The next-door neighbors have said that they argued a little bit — that they could hear them arguing through the house."        Sherry was about three months pregnant.        At about 1:00 AM on December 28, 2005, Sherry called 9-1-1 but never completed the call. The dispatcher heard a gunshot and sent deputies to the house. Sgt. James Parker of the Harris County Sheriff's Office said "There was a disturbance and you could hear a gunshot that had gone off." When officers reached the scene, they found Sherry shot in the head, and she died a short time later.        Police arrested Holmes and charged him with one count of murder. Deputies said he would not be charged in the death of the unborn child due to the pregnancy being in its early stages.        Neighbor Shirley Trovence said that "She was very nurturing. She had a lot of pets, so she was always real loving. So I think she was real excited to have a baby." References:  "Pregnant Woman Shot To Death While Calling 911." KPRC Television 2 [Houston, Texas], December 28, 2005; "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2005." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007. Murder        Joe Nathan Sanders, Jr's common-law wife was in jail, but this did not stop him from having sex wherever he could find it. So he started having an adulterous affair with his wife's sister, 30-year-old Angela Alex, who already had four children of her own. Eventually, she became pregnant with Sanders' child and informed him of the pregnancy in an attempt to break off her relationship with him.        On November 1, 2005, Sanders decided to solve his problem by shooting Angela four times and leaving her dead in the street next to her SUV.        Sanders was convicted of capital murder and received a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. After he was sentenced, he tried to jump a courtroom rail to hug his mother and was Tasered into submission by deputies. References:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2005." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007; Brian Rogers. "Courtroom Deputies Use Taser to Subdue Defendant." Houston Chronicle, August 31, 2007. Manslaughter (2 counts) and Accessory to Manslaughter (2 counts)        On October 13, 1939, 21-year-old Barbara Hanson went to a Houston motel room and met James Carter and George F. Norton, who then aborted her. They botched the job and she died. Both Carter and Norton pleaded guilty to manslaughter, and each received a 5 to 7 year prison sentence. Barbara's boyfriend and another man pleaded guilty to accessory charges and were each sentenced to one year in prison. Reference:  New York Times, December 14, 1939. Aggravated Assault and Death Threat        On February 21, 1994, a uniformed security guard at the Planned Parenthood abortion mill pulled a pistol on a sidewalk counselor and threatened his life. The guard also acted as an escort at the mill. Police arrested him. Reference:  Report to Rescue America-National, February 28, 1994. Assault and Torture        On December 12, 1994, William Burban was brutally assaulted by a police officer. The following is Burban's account of what happened: I went to the death camp of Planned Parenthood at approximately 7 AM to protest the killing of innocent human lives by abortion and RU-486. I set up my signs as usual and began to pray, counsel mothers, and picket. At approximately 8 AM I noticed that the baby shoes were missing from a cross that I usually drape on to symbolize the killing of unborn children ... I was asking residents to sign a petition against the FACE law and against abortion] an off duty COH [City of Houston] Police Officer driving a Southampton Subdivision Security vehicle got out of his vehicle and approached me again and asked the question if I had permission to go door to door. I stated that my permission comes from the First Amendment, and held up the petition for the officer to observe. ... he stated his name was John E. Zitzman. I thanked the off duty officer for his time and turned to go to the home to have them sign the petition when officer Zitzman tackled me from behind and started hitting me with his baton. I went limp and said "What are you doing?" The off-duty officer continued to beat me with his baton. I begged him to stop the beating! It was at this point that he mentioned that he was arresting me. It is important to note that he never mention[ed] anything about me being arrested [earlier]. I received 30 baton blows before I was notified that I was being arrested. It is important to note that not a single hint that I was going to be arrested up to this exact point. The officer called in for backup at this point and I was in handcuffs when the other officers arrived. They started cussing at me and using the Lord's name in vain ... I told them that I wanted a report to be made of the Police Brutality that I have received and they did not answer me and dragged me out and were prodding me with cattle iron rods that burned my flesh. They slammed me against the wall and pulled my hair ... The handcuffs were squeezed so tightly that it burned ... During the pretrial they stated that I attacked Officer Zitzman.        A medical report and pictures in the possession of Life Research Institute verifies Burban's many injuries. The victim was charged with resisting arrest. Reference:  William Burban, "Violence and Disruption Report," December 9, 1994. Malpractice (145 incidents) and Unlawful Practice of Medicine (8 incidents)        The State of Texas was so lax at enforcing its own laws pertaining to the governing of abortion clinics that the abortion mills injured hundreds — perhaps thousands — of women in their wild rush to rake in as much money as possible.        Finally, 145 women who had been injured by Texas abortion mills filed suit against the State, demanding that it make abortion mills safer.        In April 2003, District Court Judge John Coselli, Jr. heard testimony from four women alleging a variety of physical and emotional injuries, including a ruptured uterus, a ruptured colon and sterility, as well as guilt and depression, from abortion procedures at private abortuaries regulated by the state.        He ordered mediation to resolve the class-action lawsuit. During mediation, the parties will attempt to reach an agreement before an unbiased third party designated by the court — usually a former district court judge.        Allen Parker, Chief Executive Officer of the Texas Legal Foundation, which is representing the plaintiffs, said that "We're alleging that they do not adequately give women enough information about the nature and consequences of abortion for them to make fully informed and voluntary decisions."        The suit also alleges that the state failed to adequately investigate unlicensed abortion mills; failed to adequately inspect and examine licensed abortuaries; failed to cooperate with other state agencies attempting to prosecute illegal activity in abortion mills; failed to prevent the unauthorized practice of medicine by unlicensed individuals in abortion mills; and failed to require abortion clinics to report child abuse that resulted in pregnancy.        Of course, pro-abortionists, as they always do, ignored the injured women as if they did not exist. Peter Durkin, CEO of Texas Planned Parenthood, called the case "disingenuous," saying the Texas Department of Health "does a good job with available resources of inspecting on a regular scheduled basis, as well as unannounced inspections of abortion providers of Texas. I think if you look at the motives of these suits, they are intended to increase the barriers to women accessing this service, and their other goal is to increase the cost."        Attorneys for the State of Texas are asserting that individuals cannot sue a state to make the state enforce its own laws and regulations. In attempting to refute that argument, Parker pointed to a 1989 Texas case in which farmers successfully sued the state Department of Health for failing to enforce regulations designed to protect farm workers. Parker said "Instead of protecting women, the state wants to protect itself by having this lawsuit dismissed. The state's attitude has been 'We don't care' or 'It's not my job.' ... If a person was speeding in your neighborhood every day, going 90 miles per hour in front of your house, and you called the police and they didn't do anything, eventually, a judge would order them to enforce the law. We're also asking that the state inform women of the emotional and physical consequences of abortion. It is the taking of the life of a human organism under Texas law, and it has long-term emotional consequences."        Parker added that the suit seeks enforcement of the Texas parental notification statute. Two of the plaintiffs, a minor and her mother, say the state never informed the parents that the girl, who was 16 years old at the time, was getting an abortion.        According to Parker, the minor said she would never have gone through with the abortion had her parents been notified and is suffering "severe emotional trauma as a result."        "I was very upset about what happened to my daughter," said the mother, who wished only to be identified by her initials, L.S. "I found out afterwards, and I was very angry that I wasn't notified."        L.S. said the state stonewalled her when she sought specific information on its abortion laws and regulations, particularly parental notification. A private guidance counselor referred her to the Texas Legal Foundation.        Her daughter made the decision to have an abortion based on information given to her at the abortion clinic, L.S. said. "They told her that the child could be born with some kind of disorder or retardation and that she would have to take care of it for the rest of her life. She was frightened about what they told her could happen." L.S. said her daughter was "very distraught," complaining that she had "rushed" into the decision and that the clinic had failed to inform her of alternatives to abortion such as child placement or adoption. Her daughter became more withdrawn, L.S. said, until the girl had to be hospitalized for emotional distress. The mother said that "She was crying all the time. I'm very upset that it happened at all. I wish I would have been notified, and I wish they would have given her different options when she went in to get her pregnancy test."        Several of the women were injured by abortions performed in abortion clinics by non-licensed personnel, including non-doctors. References:  "Texas Women's Botched Abortion Lawsuit Begins Friday." Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org, April 11, 2003; "Class Action Lawsuit Launched Against Texas for not Enforcing Abortuary Regulations." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, April 11, 2003; Steve Brown. "Texas Abortion Lawsuit Headed for Mediation." CNSNews.com, April 14, 2003; "Texas Lawsuit Over Abortion Damage Goes to Mediation." Steve Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet, April 14, 2003; "Judge Orders Mediation in Texas Abortion Suit." LifeSite Daily News, April 14, 2003. Death Threats (2 incidents) and Vandalism (2 incidents)        On October 12, 1994, at the American Women's Center abortion mill, a father ran his pickup truck over 15 wooden crosses and threatened to kill the pro-lifers there. The next day, a different man did exactly the same thing. Charges were filed against the men in both cases. Reference:  National Pro-Life Newsline, October 1994, #17. Assault        Pro-lifer rescuers conducted a "lock-and-block" at the Houston Women's Clinic abortion mill on October 29, 1988. Rescuers at the clinic were locked at their necks or ankles to 55-gallon drums filled with steel and concrete, which weighed over 800 pounds each. A security guard at the abortion mill turned over one barrel and rolled it over Scott Amerson's foot, crushing his ankle. Amerson, who is blind, won a $41,000 judgment from the abortion mill. References:  National Pro-Life Newsline, June 1994; June 2, 1994 report to Rescue America. Stalking        On October 10, 1994, pro-lifer Mary Daley was stalked and nearly sideswiped by a woman who had her license plate covered. This person then parked in Mildred Hanson's abortion clinic parking lot, which was off-limits to pro-lifers. Reference:  Mary Daley, letter to Lynn K. Murphy, December 20, 1994. Death Threats (2 incidents) and Destruction of Property (2 incidents)        On February 21, 1994, at the city's Planned Parenthood abortuary, a uniformed security guard threatened a sidewalk counselor with a gun. The counselor was on the public sidewalk at the time. The security guard was not licensed to carry a gun, and police subsequently arrested him. Reference:  National Pro-Life Newsline, February and March 1994. Irving Capital Murder (4 counts), Attempted Murder, Armed Robbery, Menacing, Death Threat, Assault (12 incidents), Grand Theft Auto, Burglary (5 incidents), Unlawful Possession of a Loaded Weapon        On January 26, 1991, Jessy Carlos San Miguel and Jerome Green robbed a Taco Bell restaurant in Irving, Texas. Green was a part-time employee of the restaurant, and assisted San Miguel in his robbery.        San Miguel entered the store, and he and Green forced three people into the walk-in freezer — the manager of the store, Michael John Phelan; Theresa Fraga, who was only sixteen years old and five months pregnant; and her cousin Frank Fraga. San Miguel and Green noticed a friend of the Fragas, Son Trang Nyugen, sitting in a car outside the restaurant, so they pushed him into the freezer as well.        San Miguel and Green left the scene, but San Miguel decided to return. He told police that he "asked them to give him a good reason why he shouldn't kill them." Apparently the reasons his victims gave him didn't satisfy him, because he shot Theresa, Michael, Frank and Nyugen in their heads with his nine-millimeter pistol, murdering them all.        San Miguel and Green were arrested in their car soon after, and police found bundles of cash in a Taco Bell paper sack in the back seat of their car. San Miguel confessed to the crimes and said that "The only reason why I killed those people is they couldn't make good Mexican food."        Green pleaded guilty and was sentenced to fifty years in prison. A jury found San Miguel guilty of four counts of murder and sentenced him to death.        San Miguel already had a long criminal history despite his young age. He had shot a young man in the stomach with a pistol, had beaten up at least a dozen people, had shot holes in a rival's bedroom with his pistol, communicated death threats, unlawfully possessed of a loaded weapon, had been arrested in several instances of burglary and grand theft auto, and had assaulted a police officer.        On June 29, 2000, the State of Texas executed Jessy Carlos San Miguel by lethal injection. Reference:  "Jessy Carlos San Miguel to be Executed." Media advisory from Texas Attorney General John Cornyn dated June 25, 2000. Lubbock Capital Murder and Murder        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Lubbock, Texas.        On September 10, 2006, Rosendo Rodriguez III beat Summer Baldwin, a pregnant mother of four children, to death. Then he bought a roll-away suitcase at a local Wal-Mart and stuffed Summer's body into it. He then abandoned her at a landfill near Lubbock.        On September 16, 2006, Rodriguez was arrested and, in October 2005, a grand jury indicted him on charges of capital murder and aggravated sexual assault.        Previously, on May 4, 2004, 16-year-old Joanna Rogers had disappeared, and her mummified remains were discovered in the same landfill in 2006, two years after she was murdered. Rodriguez admitted to police that he had also murdered Joanna. References:  Jason Womack. "Family Confirms that Rodriguez Admitted to Killing Rogers." Avalanche-Journal [Lubbock, Texas], June 7, 2006; Logan G. Carver. "Rodriguez Trial Begins Today." Avalanche-Journal [Lubbock, Texas], March 24, 2008. Assault        On April 30, 1998, Leisa Hall, manager of the Planned Family Clinic abortion mill, physically attacked sidewalk counselor Dorothy Boyett. Reference:  E-mail communications of April 30, 1998. Violation of Civil Rights and Assault        On August 15, 1997, pro-lifer Judy Kreller was demonstrating at a Lubbock Planned Parenthood clinic. A pro-abortionist called police and claimed that she was suicidal. Without investigating the call in any way, police immediately handcuffed her and took her to a hospital for psychiatric exam. Her subsequent lawsuit stated that "At all times Kreller was obviously in her right mind; displayed no suicidal or homicidal tendencies; was appropriately clothed; and spoke and acted in an appropriate manner." Planned Parenthood denied involvement, and of course, the police had conveniently "forgotten" who made the original claim.        In an earlier incident, on April 30, 1998, sidewalk counselor Dorothy Boyett was assaulted by Lisa Hall, manager of the Planned Family Clinic abortion mill in Lubbock. Dorothy had to place a 911 call for police assistance when officer Glen Stallings, who moonlights as a security guard at the abortuary, and an on-duty police sergeant who was visiting with officer Stallings, refused to write up a report.        Earlier Dorothy and Judy Kreller had counseled several members of a family who had gathered in hopes of convincing a young family member to change her mind about having an abortion. Judy offered help to the abortion-bound woman. As the family stood across the street from the clinic in conversation with the young woman, Clinic Manager Lisa Hall and officer Stallings crossed the street. Hall grabbed the expectant mom by the arm and said "You don't have to listen to them, come with us." Judy followed the group pleading with the mom to change her mind.        Dorothy was kneeling in prayer on the sidewalk in front of the clinic. As the group approached, she walked toward them and said "Jesus loves you." Lisa Hall responded, "If you don't shut up I'm going to slap you on the head." She then reached out, struck Dorothy on the shoulder, and pushed her off the sidewalk.        Rather than file an incident report as Dorothy immediately requested, Officer Stallings told her she was blocking the sidewalk. He and the sergeant stood laughing as she walked to a corner bank to place a 911 call. Officer Lopez and Sgt. Gregg arrived a few minutes later. They did not interview Lisa Hall. Most of their time was spent in conversation with Officer Stallings.        Several witnesses verified Dorothy Boyett and Judy Kreller's account of what happened. One couple who had brought their daughter for an abortion told police, "That woman in the white coat had no right to hit that lady wearing the glasses." Had the situation been reversed, had Dorothy Boyett struck Lisa Hall, Dorothy would be sitting in a jail cell at this very moment with FACE charges being drawn up against her.        Amazingly, on Tuesday, May 12th, Dorothy was read her rights and informed that criminal charges had been filed against her, despite the fact that she was the person who was assaulted. References:  "Peaceful Pro-Lifer Assaulted by Clinic Manager." Downloaded from the Web site of Eagle's Nest Homeschool at http://eaglesnesthome.com/assault.htm on May 16, 2002; Leigh Bellinger. "Anti-Abortion Protester Sues City, Officers." Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, May 27, 1998; "Abortion Protestor Sues in Exam: Acting on Tip, Police Took Her to Hospital for Mental Check." The Dallas Morning News, May 29, 1998, page 28A; "Pro-Lifer Files Suit Against Police, Clinic." Lifesite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, May 29, 1998. Lufkin Capital Murder (2 counts)        This case vividly demonstrates how truly idiotic and inconsistent the abortion laws are in the United States.        A teenager helped his girlfriend abort her preborn twins — at her request — and he goes to prison for life while she is not even charged, because she has a "right" to abortion.        On May 6, 2004, Erica Basoria explicitly asked her boyfriend, Gerardo "Jerry" Flores, to help her end her pregnancy because it would interfere with her plans for going to college. While she lay on the floor and punched herself hard in the abdomen, he stepped on her stomach. Her five-month preborn twins died as a result.        Basoria said that "When I was four months pregnant, I began to show, and at that time I decided that I should have gotten an abortion." She also told investigators that she had been trying for weeks to kill her babies before she and Flores finally succeeded in doing so. She said "My mom, my sister and my sister-in-law all said that I should get an abortion. They said that I was too young to have children. ... About two weeks before the miscarriage, I started hitting myself. I would do this every other day and I would use both of my fists when I did this. I would hit myself 10 or more times."        The defense logically argued that it was impossible to tell which of the two caused the miscarriage, but a jury took four hours to convict Flores of two counts of capital murder. Flores received an automatic life sentence because prosecutors did not seek the death penalty.        So, we have arrived at a situation where the same act of murder committed against the same victims can be a heinous act that society must severely punish for one perpetrator, and a legally protected human right for the other. Flores could have been executed for his crime, while Basoria was not in the slightest danger of being charged with even a misdemeanor.        Another contradiction in this case is that, if Flores had been a licensed abortionist and had ended the pregnancy another way, he would have been rewarded with a hefty fee.        Flores' defense attorney, Ryan Deaton asked reporters "How can two people conspire to do something like this and only one of them be punished? How can that be fair?"        Good question.        Even Angelina County District Attorney Clyde Herrington agreed, telling media "It doesn't seem entirely fair. It is somewhat startling to me that they completely leave the female out of the criminal penalty — I would suspect that in a case of this nature, if the jury or the judge figures that out, then it could have an impact on the punishment. They might go light on him."        The co-author of Texas' Unborn Victims of Violence Act said lawmakers never envisioned a case in which the mother of unborn children would ask the children's father to kill them. Representative Ray Allen, R-Grand Prairie, told the media "We didn't consider a case as ridiculous as this. ... I feel sad for these immature, stupid people. But the law is what the law is. You can't legally ask your boyfriend to do a triple bypass on you, even if he's stupid enough to try it. You can't give another person permission to commit an illegal act." References:  Maria Gallagher. "Texas Man Charged When Girlfriend Asks Him to Kill Her Unborn Twins." LifeNews.com, March 2, 2005; "Texas Man Convicted for Attack on Pregnant Woman, Killing Twin Babies." LifeNews.com, June 7, 2005; "Texas Man Found Guilty of Murder for Illegally Aborting His Twin Children: Mother Who Requested Killing Cannot be Charged as Accomplice." LifeSite Daily News at http://www.lifesitenews.com, June 7, 2005. Mart Murder        Brandy Burkett was nine months pregnant and lived in Mart, a small town about twenty miles East of Waco, Texas. She and her boyfriend, Brian Dale Cass, had frequently argued over child support payments. In December 2002, someone broke into Brandy's home and shot her in the head, killing her while she was holding her one-year-old nephew. Brandy's mother found her dead, lying on top of the little boy.        Police charged Cass with her murder and he went on trial, but, on October 9, 2005, a jury found him not guilty of the charges. The murder has still not been solved. References:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2002." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007; "Man Found Guilty of His Ex-Girlfriend's Murder." KCEN Television Channel 6 [Waco, Temple and Killeen, Texas], October 10, 2007. Odessa Capital Murder (3 counts), Aggravated Assault, Assault (2 incidents) and Death Threats (2 incidents)        Leo Angel Luna had been systematically harassing his estranged common-law wife, 21-year-old Diana Ponce, who was seven months pregnant with his child. On December 27, 2005, he went to her house, slapped her several times and grabbed her hair. Blanca Ponce, Diana's mother, convinced Luna to leave, but he returned a few minutes later and she called the police.        Police appeared at the home shortly thereafter but did not arrest Luna. Luna left, but returned after the police departed, and Blanca called her father, Alfonso Pando, to come to the house. According to Pando, "He [Luna] charged at her and pointed his fist an inch away from her face and said, 'I will kill you,' and then he pushed her. She [Blanca] then called the cops again."        Once again, police appeared after Luna had left but did not arrest him. Pando confronted the officers and left the house. Yet again, Luna appeared and threatened Blanca and her daughter and once again assaulted Diana, pulling her hair.        Luna left again but returned at about 11:30 the next day, and murdered Diana and Blanca. He also shot Blanca's son William, an Odessa College student, in the face. William survived But Diana's baby, delivered by Cesarian section, did not.        Pando said "We went back into the house to get William's cell phone, and we saw things that were horrible. The big blood stains, the two bloody handprints on the refrigerator, teeth, bone and part of a jaw on the floor. I mean, how can someone have the will to do something like this?" Blanca added "I blame the police for not taking that idiot to jail. About two months ago, sometime around there ... Leo chased Diana through the alley with a .22."        Luna pleaded guilty to the murder charges to escape the death penalty. He was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. References:  Casey Foran. "Family Struggles with Loss." The Odessa American, December 31, 2005; "Odessa Man Accused of Killing Pregnant Wife, Her Mother, Pleads Guilty." KLTV Channel 7 [Tyler-Longview-Jacksonville, Texas], June 26, 2007. Grossly Botched Abortion, Drug Abuse, Medicare Fraud and Tax Fraud        Abortionist John Alderman botched an abortion on Lena A. Renfro. The abortionist told her that she was only 2 weeks pregnant, so she agreed to a D&C abortion. During the procedure, she experienced severe pain, so she went to a nearby hospital and was diagnosed as being 5 months (22 weeks) pregnant. Her preborn baby was born later, and subsequently died due to injuries sustained during the botched abortion attempt.        A Texas Medical Board document found that Alderman "self-administered pain medications including Talwin, nitrous oxide, and Buprenex, taken on a regular basis until November 1985 ... Alderman acknowledged his dependency on Talwin and admitted himself for substance abuse treatment at Clearview Hospital," and was discharged December 22, 1985, diagnosed with "Drug abuse, in remission;" Alderman "self-administered, without a prescription, the medication Valium" around the end of November 1986; "Alderman has engaged in intemperate use of drugs, that in the opinion of the Board, could endanger the lives of patients ... Alderman has engaged in unprofessional or dishonorable conduct that is likely to deceive or defraud the public or injure the public by writing prescriptions or dispensing to himself, as a known habitual user, narcotic drugs, controlled substances or dangerous drugs ... Alderman has shown an inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to patients ..." The abortionist's medical license was suspended for five years on July 1, 1987.        Alderman was sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for tax evasion and filing false Medicare claims for abortions, for which women had already paid. U.S. District Judge Royal Furgeson also sentenced him to two years of supervised release time and a $200 fine. Alderman paid $125,999 in restitution before his sentencing. As lead abortionist for the Petroplex Gynecological Clinic, Alderman charged clients $300 in cash and then sent false claims to Medicaid for reimbursement. In all, he filed $25,169 in false claims from 1994 through 1997 and underreported about $119,003 in 1995 and $115,160 in 1996 in income reported to the IRS. References:  "Abortion Practitioner Sentenced for Tax Evasion, Medicare Fraud." Steven Ertelt's Pro-Life Infonet at http://www.prolifeinfo.org/infonet.html, February 13, 1999; "Abortuary Scandal File ..." Lifesite Daily News at http://www.lifesite.net, February 15, 1999; Texas Medical Board document # E-3639; "Abortionist Sentenced for Tax Evasion, Fraud." Downloaded from the Web site of The Post-Abortion Review at http://www.afterabortion.org/PAR/V&/ns/newsbriefs.htm on March 3, 2003. Palestine Murder and Suicide        23-year-old Rachel Hickman was pregnant. On April 5, 2006, she was sitting in a pickup truck by the side of a road in Palestine, Texas, with her 19-year-old "on-again, off-again" boyfriend, Justin Riddle. Riddle shot her in the head and then turned the gun on himself, committing suicide. Because both were killed, authorities could only speculate as to the events that occurred before the murder-suicide, and whether or not Rachel's pregnancy had anything to do with it. Reference:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2006." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007. Pampa Capital Murder (3 counts), First-Degree Murder (2 counts), Attempted Murder, Second-Degree Arson, Grand Theft Auto, Burglary and Theft        According to police investigations and witness statements, the following events occurred in and around Pampa, Texas.        On September 29, 2005, Levi King murdered 70-year-old Orlie McCool and his 47-year-old daughter-in-law, Dawn McCool, in Pineville, Missouri, using guns he had stolen from his father. The next day, he murdered Brian Conrad, his wife, Michell, and her 14-year-old son, Zach Doan, in their home. Michell was six months pregnant with Brian's first child. King also shot Michell's ten-year-old daughter, who survived and called police. King had stolen Orlie McCool's 2005 pickup truck and used it to drive to the Texas Panhandle. King then tried to escape to Mexico, but was arrested by Border Patrol agents the same day he had killed most of the members of the Conrad family. There were two rifles and two handguns in the truck. Ballistics tests on the 9 millimeter weapon matched some of the bullets found in the murder victims' bodies.        On March 23, 2006, a Gray County, Texas grand jury indicted King on three counts of capital murder. This was shortly after he pleaded not guilty to two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Orlie McCool and Dawn McCool.        Lynn Switzer, Gary County's district attorney, told The Pampa News that she will seek the death penalty against King.        In July 2005, King had been released from prison to a halfway house in St. Louis, having served only 17 months of a 14-year sentence for second-degree arson and burglary. On September 23, 2005, King left the halfway house, saying he was going to work, and never returned. References:  KFDA News Channel 10 [Amarillo, Texas]. "New Information in Pampa Quadruple Homicide: Extended Web Coverage." January 24, 2006; Associated Press. "Suspect in Missouri Slayings Indicted in Texas Case." March 25, 2006. Port Arthur Murder and Suicide        According to relatives, 23-year-old Lillian Louis, who was four months pregnant and who had two small children, often fought with her boyfriend, 21-year-old Joey Coleman. On September 9, 2005, Coleman decided to end the fights once and for all. He broke into Lillian's home and ordered everyone but her to leave the house. Then he shot her to death and killed himself. Reference:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2006." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007. San Angelo Capital Murder, Conspiracy to Commit Murder (2 counts), Rape, Assault, Death Threat (3 incidents), Destruction of Property (3 incidents) and Fraud [Tennyson]        Luis Ramirez was a typical "pro-choice" male. He didn't like women, and he certainly didn't like children. When his second wife Dawn became pregnant, he isolated her from her parents, verbally abused her, then beat her up and raped her. Ramirez and accomplice Edward Bell repeatedly plotted to kill Dawn and actually threatened her life in writing. Ramirez continued to threaten Dawn's life even after they were divorced in 1993.        Ramirez also physically and verbally abused his first wife. He destroyed her car in order to collect insurance money, and caused extensive damage to a house she was trying to sell. Ramirez also plotted to kill her uncle, slashed the tired on the car of a man she dated after they were separated, and threatened another male acquaintance of hers.        San Angelo firefighter Nemecio Nandin began to date Dawn Holquin after her divorce from Ramirez in 1997. On April 8, 1998, Ramirez and Edward Bell lured Nandin to a house near Tennyson, saying that they wanted to hire him to do repairs on a washer. Ramirez and Bell handcuffed Nandin, shot him twice in the head with a shotgun in a chicken coop, then buried his body in a shallow grave on the rural country. His body was discovered a week later.        An information told police that Ramirez had offered him $1,000 to help kill Nandin.        A jury convicted Ramirez of capital murder and sentenced him to death, and Bell was sentenced to life in prison. The state of Texas executed Luis Ramirez by lethal injection on October 20, 2005. He maintained until the very end that he was completely innocent. Tom Green County first assistant Bryan Clayton said "What amazes me is that someone who's about to meet his Maker lies until the very end. It underscores what a dangerous person he was." References:  "Texas Man Executed for 1998 Murder Plot." Reuters, October 20, 2005; Associated Press. "Killer Denies Guilt Before His Execution." Houston Chronicle , October 20, 2005; Paul A. Anthony. "Ramirez Put to Death; He Claimed He was Innocent of Killing Firefighter." San Angelo Standard Times, October 21, 2005; Tori Brock. "San Angelo Man Put to Death." The Huntsville Item , October 21, 2005; Michael Graczyk. "Inmate Executed for 1998 Slaying." Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, October 21, 2005 San Antonio Murder (23 counts), Attempted Murder, Kidnapping, Rape (14 counts), Attempted Rape, Aggravated Assault, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Grand Theft Auto (5 incidents) and Theft (8 incidents)        Tommy Lynn Sells had been wandering the country since he was fourteen years old, getting from place to place by hitchhiking, hopping freight trains, or stealing cars. By that time, he already had a long record of crimes, including using drugs and attempting to rape his own mother.        In July 1985, Sells committed his first murders, bludgeoning Ena Cordt and her four-year-old son to death with a baseball bat after she took him home after meeting him at a fair.        In May 1987, Sells murdered Suzanne Korcz near Niagara Falls, and confessed to the murder long after her skeletal remains were found in 1995.        On October 15, 1987, Sells stole a utility truck and picked up Stephanie Stroh, who was hitchhiking near Winnemucca, Nevada. He drove her into a remote area, strangled her, and dropped her body down a hot spring.        On November 18, 1987, Sells met Keith Dardeen in a truck stop in Ina, Illinois. Dardeen felt sorry for Sells and took him home. Sells shows his gratitude by shooting Keith to death, then raping and murdering his pregnant wife, Ruby Elaine, with a baseball bat. Then he beat their 3-year-old son to death with the bat. He then mutilated Keith's genitals with a knife. A particularly horrible aspect of this crime was that Ruby Elaine was seven months pregnant and went into labor during the torture inflicted upon her by Sells. So Sells beat the little newborn girl to death as well.        On January 12, 1990, Sells was arrested for theft and spent 16 months in prison. In September 1991, he murdered Margaret McClain and her daughter, in Charleston, West Virginia.        Sells eventually began standing on a street corner in Charleston holding a cardboard sign lettered "WILL WORK FOR FOOD." This was his way of attracting victims. Unfortunately, for her, 33-year-old Fabienne Witherspoon, who was pregnant, was walking back home from a job interview on May 13, 1992, and saw him. She told him that she had some junk food at her apartment that she didn't want, and walked there with Sells.        Sells got a steak knife and repeatedly raped her despite her pleas that she was pregnant. She fought him off by hitting him over the head with a ceramic duck, then seized the knife from him and stabbed him several times. He got the knife back and tied Fabienne up, held the knife at her throat, and threatened to cut her voice box out so she couldn't talk. He attempted to smother her but failed, hit her over the head with a piano stool, and left the apartment, saying "I can't believe I am still alive."        Sells spent a week in the hospital recovering from eighteen stab wounds inflicted by Fabienne. From there, he was taken to the county jail and, in September 1992, a Kanawha grand jury indicted him on five counts of rape and felony assault. After pleading guilty to lesser charges, Judge Tod Kaufman sentenced Sells to between two and 10 years in prison.        In May 1997, Sells was released from prison. He got married, and left West Virginia for Tennessee. In November of that year, he murdered 13-year-old Stephanie Mahaney of Springfield, Missouri, and dumped her body in a pond. He later confessed to this murder.        He moved to Del Rio, Texas, and began to sell used cars.        On April 18, 1999, he kidnapped a little girl, nine-year-old Mary Bea Perez, from a music fest, and raped and murdered her. Then he dumped her body into a creek. In 2003, he pleaded guilty to this murder and was sentenced to life in prison on top of the death penalty he received for other crimes.        On May 13, 1999, he saw 13-year-old Haley McHone enjoying a bicycle ride. He grabbed her, and then raped and murdered her in nearby woods. He took her bicycle, sold it for twenty dollars, and used the money to get drunk.        On New Year's Eve, 1999, he broke into 13-year-old Kaylene Harris' bedroom, raped her, slit her throat twice and stabbed her fourteen more times, then slashed the throat of a 10-year-old friend of Kaylene's, Krystal Surles, who was spending the night. Kaylene died, but Krystal lived — barely.        On January 2, 2000, sheriff's deputies arrested Sells at the trailer home he lived in. Sells spent hours telling deputies about murders and other crimes he had committed over a period of years, including the unsolved deaths of a mother and daughter in Missouri, a teenaged girl in Lexington, Kentucky, a fellow drifter named Kent Lauten in Arizona, a prostitute in Truckee, California, a young girl in New Hampshire, a woman and her three-year old son in Twin Falls, Idaho, and a child in San Antonio, Texas. He had escaped justice for so long because he used no credit cards, killed without any apparent pattern, and moved on to another part of the country right after killing a person.        In September 2000, Sells went on trial for murder. After a three-day trial, a jury found him guilty of capital murder for the killing of Kaylene Harris, and sentenced him to death.        Sells finally went to death row in Texas for his crimes, and is still there today. He spends his time whining about how tough jail life is, making crude drawings, and telling anyone who will listen how Jews are responsible for his predicament. References:  "Serial Killers: Sexual Predators: Tommy Lynn Sells." CrimeLibrary.com, downloaded on October 15, 2007; Diane Fanning. Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells [2007: Mass Market Paperback]. Murder (3 counts) and Suicide        Nobody will ever know what drove Roland Ramirez Moreno to slaughter his entire family, but the facts of the tragedy are as follows.        Early on the morning of September 24, 2003, the unemployed electrician shot his pregnant wife, 31-year-old Maria D. Moreno, in the head and shot his five-year-old son Louis "Franky" Moreno in the back.        Then he took a break and dialed his pastor, asking for a prayer "to save his heart." The pastor called 9-1-1 and, when police arrived at Moreno's home, he put his Glock under his chin and pulled the trigger. References:  "Man Shoots Son, Wife, Self." San Antonio Express-News, September 27, 2003; "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2003." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007. Capital Murder        According to police investigations and witness statements, the following events occurred in and around San Antonio, Texas.        On December 12, 2005, former youth minister Adrian Estrada of the El Sendero Assembly of God argued with his three-months-pregnant girlfriend Stephanie Sanchez at her parent's home, and then stabbed her multiple times, killing her. He then fled from the house. Stephanie's father found her lying in a pool of blood when he arrived home. She had suffered severe stab wounds to her neck, back and head, and was pronounced dead at the scene.        The next day, Estrada was arrested and charged with capital murder after going to the town's police headquarters and confessing to the crime.        Stephanie's mother, Mary Vargas, said "We just don't know why. We had no signs this was coming." But Adrian Natero of the El Sendero Assembly said that Estrada used his position as a youth minister to molest other young girls. She said of an emergency church meeting "Basically it was real defensive. They're real scared right now. All they asked for — let's pray for Adrian and his family and the 'other girl' and for our church. They didn't mention Stephanie Sanchez at all, or her family." Natera said the church was aware of the relationship. She said "If they would've done something about this the first time somebody brought it to them, I really don't think that the situation would be happening right now."        Natera also said that Estrada had a sexual relationship with other girls 15 and 16 years old. References:  "Former Minister Accused of Killing His Pregnant Teenage Girlfriend." KTRK Television 13 News [ABC, Houston, Texas], December 15, 2005. "Murder Victim's Friend: Church was Informed of Relationship." KSAT Television 12 News [San Antonio, Texas], December 15, 2005. Murder        28-year-old Trishawn Fifer was a deaf stay-at-home mother of two small daughters, aged two and four. She was also six months pregnant.        On December 26, 2002, Duane Cortez Wilson, her stepfather, decided to carry out revenge against his estranged wife Marilyn for filing for divorce. So he strangled Trishawn to death right in front of her two small daughters. He left her in her home and departed the scene.        A passerby, Lisa Rodriguez, was driving by and noticed Trishawn's two-year-old daughter crying on the sidewalk in front of her home. She entered the home and both girls greeted her with open arms and led her to the murder scene. Trishawn's husband Nathaniel arrived home in the evening to find authorities already at the murder scene. When the oldest girl was carried out of the house, she saw Wilson and started shouting "Scary, scary! Bad man! Mommy's crying!"        On January 17, 2003, police arrested Wilson at Randolph Air Force Base, where he worked.        On June 30, 2004, a San Antonio jury found Wilson guilty of murder, and the next day, it sentenced him to 30 years in prison for murdering Trishawn. References:  Manny Gonzales. "Stepfather Held in Deaf Woman's December Slaying." San Antonio Express, January 17, 2003; "Jury Sequestered in Murder Trial." WOAI Television 4 News [NBC, San Antonio, Texas], June 30, 2004; Tom Bower. "Guilty Verdict Returned in Deaf Woman's Strangulation." San Antonio Express, June 30, 2004; Tim Bower. "Stepfather Gets 30-Year Sentence." San Antonio Express, July 2, 2004. Practicing Medicine Without a License (7 incidents) and Botched Abortions (7 incidents)        A news article in the San Antonio Express revealed that the Alamo Women's Clinic abortion mill was investigated by the State of Texas after an employee said at least seven women had their abortions performed by "a marketing specialist and an associate" posing as doctors. Seven women suffered injuries, including a lacerated colon and a perforated uterus. Reference:  San Antonio Express, June 14, 1991. Seminole Murder and Attempted Capital Murder        On January 26, 2003, Daniel Lee Flores shot his pregnant 18-year-old girlfriend, Erica Muro, twice in the head, killing her. A neighbor called police and reported a possible shooting, and 22-year veteran Lieutenant Darrell Hobbs went to the scene. As Hobbes approached the back door of Flores' home, Flores shot him with a shotgun. Other police officers reached the scene, and Flores stood them off for three hours before surrendering. He was charged with murder and attempted capital murder.        On July 16, 2003, Flores was convicted of attempted capital murder and sentenced to life for shooting Lieutenant Hobbs. On March 3, 2006, a jury found him guilty in the murder of Erica Muro. References:  D. Lance Lunsford. "DA Withdraws Death Penalty from Capital Murder Case." The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, February 3, 2006; "Man Serving Life Found Guilty in Connection with Girlfriend's Death." Odessa American [Odessa, Texas], March 3, 2006. Stephenville Malpractice (4 incidents)        Abortionist Jasbir Ahluwalia has a long history of botching various surgical procedures; • He was sued by a husband and wife who alleged that he caused severe and permanent brain damage to their child during delivery. At six years of age, the boy was determined to have the mental functioning of a 4-week-old. Ahluwalia settled the suit in 1989 for more than $1.3 million. In the course of the suit, lawyers for the couple raised questions about the quality of Dr. Ahluwalia's medical training, much of which he received in Uganda. • In March 1991, a Dallas woman sued him, accusing him of perforating her uterus during an abortion. As a result, surgeons had to remove her uterus. Also in 1991, another Dallas woman sued him. She, too, said he perforated her uterus during an abortion. Ahluwalia settled both suits in 1993. • In 1995, he was sued by an Erath County woman on whom he had performed a hysterectomy. She alleged that he mistakenly blocked a ureter with stitches. So severe were the complications that, four months later, another surgeon had to remove her kidney. Had she known of Dr. Ahluwalia's prior problems, patient Linda Runnels said recently, "I wouldn't have used him for sure." Her suit was settled.        Finally, in 1996, the Medical Board of Texas took action. It acted because Ahluwalia had lost his privileges at Harris Methodist Erath County Hospital. His privileges had been pulled because he "failed to adequately manage various high-risk pregnancies." No mention was made of his previous lawsuits, and the discipline was minimal. Board members voted to require him to take 50 hours of continuing medical education and keep adequate patient records. And he was ordered to subscribe to the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology.        Also, the board said, he must actually read it.        Ahluwalia still practices gynecology in Stephenville. References:  Doug J. Swanson. "Patients' Deaths Haven't Moved State Board to Act: Panel That Can Strip Doctors' Licenses Pledges More Inquiries." The Dallas Morning News, July 28, 2002. Tyler Capital Murder (2 counts), Attempted Murder and Robbery        On December 27, 1986, Richard Wood, Sandra Williams and her four-year-old son Larry McMillan returned home to find her former boyfriend, James Joseph Wilkens, waiting inside their home. He was armed with a .22-caliber rifle. Sandra carried Larry into the house and sat him on the couch.        As Richard entered the house, Wilkens shot him. Then Wilkens shot the little four-year-old boy thirteen times as he cried on the couch. Sandra, who was pregnant, ran from the house, and Wilkens followed her and shot her in the hip. She managed to make it to a neighbor's home, and the neighbor called police.        Sandra survived her injuries and identified Wilkens as the murderer. She had to have surgery to have part of her intestine removed.        Smith County District Attorney Jack Skeen said that The first thing that goes through my mind is the picture of Larry McMillan Jr. sitting on the couch with a toothbrush in his mouth with several bullet holes in him that Wilkens had fired at point-blank range. I can still see him slumped over with the bullet holes in him. A 4-year-old boy. It was just horrible. ... He was sitting there and waiting. He just ambushed them. It was like: Bang! Bang! He just waited and executed.        In 1988, a Smith County jury convicted Wilkens of two counts of capital murder and decided he that should be put to death. Four years later, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the conviction and sentence. He was tried, convicted and sentenced to death a second time in 1999.        Wilkens had a prior conviction on October 4, 1982, for robbery and served fourteen months in prison before being released.        On July 11, 2001, the State of Texas executed James Joseph Wilkens. Reference:  "James Joseph Wilkins to be Executed." Media advisory from Texas Attorney General John Cornyn dated July 6, 2001. Waco Theft        On May 6, 2006, Baylor University's pro-life student organization, Bears for Life, spent all day setting up a display of 3,500 pink and blue flags with signs reading, "In loving memory of 3,500 children aborted daily in the United States."        Pro-abortionists at the university couldn't stand having any viewpoint other than their own represented, so, the next evening, they stole all the flags and replaced them with a hand-written sign claiming that "Abortion saves 7,000 adult lives every day." This statement is an even greater exaggeration than the old pro-abortion lie that 5,000 to 10,000 women died of complications due to illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade. In his book Aborting America, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a founder of the National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws (NARAL) and the operator of one of the largest abortion mills in the world, wrote "In N.A.R.A.L., we generally emphasized the drama of the individual case, not the mass statistics, but when we spoke of the latter it was always "5,000 to 10,000 deaths a year." I confess that I knew the figures were totally false, and I suppose the others did too if they stopped to think of it. But in the "morality" of our revolution, it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics?"        Associate Professor of Economics John Pisciotta, a faculty sponsor of Bears for Life, said "The flags were pink and blue to say they were a little boy and little girl — it was very powerful yet respectful. ... We've had over 40 million abortions, and this has influenced the lives of a lot of people. I just think for a university supposedly committed to free speech that this is pretty poor behavior on the part of some of our students." Reference:  Terry Vanderheyden. "Christian University Pro-Life Display Stolen: Replaced with Sign Reading 'Abortion Saves 7,000 Adult Lives Every Day.'" LifeSite Daily News at http://www.LifeSiteNews.com, March 13, 2006. Whitehouse Capital Murder (2 counts), Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Kidnapping, Sexual Assault, Assault (4 incidents), False Imprisonment, Death Threats (8 incidents)        Thomas Mason had been married twice to Billie Jones and Melinda Mason, and gave both his wives a foretaste of Hell. He beat them both and threatened their lives repeatedly, as well as controlling their lives so strictly that they could not even visit with their friends or relatives. He also beat up Billie several times throughout her pregnancy and kidnapped their daughter Tabitha at gunpoint. He returned to the house later with a gun and opened fire in the house, but was shot and wounded by Billie's uncle.        Mason had threatened to burn down a house where 55-year-old Marsha Yvonne Brock and 80-year-old Sybil Mares Dennis lived in the town of Whitehouse, Texas. Marsha and Sybil were the mother and grandmother of Mason's estranged second wife Melinda Mason. On September 16, 1991, he had threatened and imprisoned Melinda at an athletic club, leading to a five-hour armed standoff with police. He told her that he was going to kill her and then himself, and forced her to have sex with him. He was arrested, but was released on bail.        Just two weeks later, on October 2, 1991, Mason went to the home of Marsha and Sybil armed with a twelve-gauge shotgun. He shot Marsha in the head at close range with the shotgun, blowing her skull apart and literally spraying her brains on the walls of the room. Then he shot Sybil several times as she screamed for help on the 911 emergency line, nearly severing her right arm and killing her.        Then Mason called several relatives and admitted that he had committed the murders. He laughed and said "I don't know what the big deal is, over just getting rid of a mother-in-law." He also told these relatives that he wanted to murder other relatives of Melinda, including Gary Brock, Susan Brock, and Mares Dennis.        On June 26, 1992, a jury convicted Mason of two counts of capital murder and sentenced him to death. Thomas Wayne Mason was executed by the State of Texas by lethal injection on June 12, 2000. Melinda Mason said "He's getting off so easy. He shot two people in cold blood. ... It's been the longest 8½ years, I'm so glad he's had justice served to him. My mom ... my grandmother can rest in peace. I don't have to face the fear of this man hurting me any more." Reference:  Michael Graczyk. "Convicted Killer of Former Mother-in-Law and Grandmother-in-Law is Executed." Abeline Reporter, June 12, 2000. Wichita Falls Capital Murder, Rape (2 counts), Aggravated Sexual Assault, Attempted Rape, Armed Robbery (4 counts), Use of a Handgun in the Commission of a Felony (5 counts), Assault (2 counts), Death Threat (12 incidents), Burglary (2 counts) and Grand Theft Auto        Odell Barnes was a man with no self-control at all. He would get enraged for any reason — or for no reason at all — and would physically attack those around him. Although he was only 21 years old when he was finally arrested for the last time, he simply committed whatever violence he felt like doing at the time.        In February 1987, he broke into a home, hit the female resident over the head with an iron, threatened her with a gun, threatened to kill her daughter, raped her, robbed her, and stole her car. On May 18, 1987, he robbed a Golden Fried Chicken restaurant with a gun. Just three days later, he held up a McDonald's restaurant with a gun. On January. 20, 1988, while on probation for all of these previous offenses, Barnes kicked in the back door of a Domino's Pizza then, using what was later determined to be a toy gun, robbed, threatened, and tied up store employees. In each of these instances, Barnes threatened to kill his victims if they did not cooperate with him. On November 15, 1989, he tried to choke and rape a woman who was nine months pregnant at the time, and threatened to kill her if she would not stop screaming. Fortunately, she managed to escape him.        He was sent to prison twice for the robberies, but served only 19 months of a ten-year prison term and only three months of an eight-year sentence. He was released both times to comply with federal court orders governing prison crowding, and Helen Bass paid the price.        On November 29, 1989, three weeks after being paroled, he went to the home of 44-year-old Helen Bass. He kicked the back door of her house in, then found her and raped her. Then he murdered her by hitting her over the head with a heavy lamp, striking her with a rifle so hard it broke in half, stabbing her twice in the neck, and finally finishing her off by shooting her in the head with a .32-caliber pistol. Then he ransacked her home.        Barnes was indicted for the capital offense of the murder of Helen Bass while in the course of committing and attempting to commit the offenses of burglary of a habitation, robbery, and aggravated sexual assault. On May 6, 1991, a Lubbock County jury found him guilty of capital murder and then sentenced him to death.        Groups opposed to capital punishment referred to Helen Bass as Barnes' "friend."        Thank God he wasn't her enemy.        Odell Barnes, Jr. was executed by the State of Texas by lethal injection on March 1, 2000. Reference:  "Texas Executes Killer Rapist; Odell Barnes Jr. Won Support of Many in France." APBNews Online, March 2, 2000; "Career Criminal Put To Death For Killing Wichita Falls Woman 10 Years Ago." KHOU.Com, March 2, 2000. Murder (2 counts)        Stella Pricilla Perez's son was celebrating his eighth birthday on October 5, 2004. Unfortunately, it would turn out to be a birthday he would never forget.        Stella had told her boyfriend, Steven Ray Gaitan, that she was pregnant by him earlier in the day. Her son, accompanied by his little dog Coco, testified in court that he saw Gaitan holding a gun. He then heard a loud noise and saw his mother slump into Gaitan's arms as he tried to put her body into his car.        Gaitan was charged with two counts of murder. References:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2004." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007; Courtney Reese. "Boy Testifies in Mother's Murder." Wichita Falls Times Record News, August 31, 2006. Murder        According to police and prosecution documents and witness testimony, the following events occurred in and around Wichita Falls, Texas.        20-year-old Bianca Tarran was looking forward to the birth of her first child, a son. But she had fought frequently with her boyfriend Michael Jermaine Williams. On January 27, 2005, the violence escalated to a fatal level, and Williams shot Bianca several times, killing her. When inconsistences in his stories to the police became obvious, they arrested him and charged him with murder. Reference:  "Women Killed by Their Intimate Partners in Texas in 2005." Downloaded from the Web site of the Texas Council on Family Violence on September 27, 2007.

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