Whitey Ford
09-25-2020, 07:52 PM
U.S. executes Black man for double murder committed at 19
The last 20 years he got to waste oxygen while his victims took a dirtnap. Good riddance! Just another Saint Dindu jogging and spreading the Word of Christ to the chirrens!
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A Black man was executed by the federal government Thursday for a crime he committed at age 19, even though his attorney said prosecutors used inflammatory racial stereotypes during the trial 20 years ago to land her client on death row.
The man, Christopher Vialva, 40, was executed Thursday evening at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Vigo County, Indiana, coroner pronounced him dead at 6:46 p.m., according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Vialva was sentenced to death in the 1999 killing in Texas of Todd and Stacie Bagley, a white couple who were youth ministers. There were 11 white jurors and one Black juror in the 2000 federal trial, said Vialva's attorney, Susan Otto.
Prosecutors portrayed Vialva "as if he were the leader of a violent and well-organized street gang," Otto said.
More than 46 percent of the 56 inmates on federal death row are Black. Black people make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population.
According to the Justice Department, Todd and Stacie Bagley were killed in Fort Hood, Texas, in 1999 after having agreed to give Vialva and two of his friends a ride in their car.
Vialva pulled out a gun and forced the couple into the trunk, and the group of teenagers drove around for a few hours, stopping to try to withdraw money from the Bagleys' bank account and to pawn Stacie Bagley's ring, according to the Justice Department. Vialva eventually parked at the site of the Fort Hood military reservation and shot the couple while another man set the car on fire, according to the Justice Department.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-set-execute-black-man-double-murder-committed-19-n1240990?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
The last 20 years he got to waste oxygen while his victims took a dirtnap. Good riddance! Just another Saint Dindu jogging and spreading the Word of Christ to the chirrens!
https://i.imgur.com/MQElWiu.png
A Black man was executed by the federal government Thursday for a crime he committed at age 19, even though his attorney said prosecutors used inflammatory racial stereotypes during the trial 20 years ago to land her client on death row.
The man, Christopher Vialva, 40, was executed Thursday evening at the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Vigo County, Indiana, coroner pronounced him dead at 6:46 p.m., according to a statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Vialva was sentenced to death in the 1999 killing in Texas of Todd and Stacie Bagley, a white couple who were youth ministers. There were 11 white jurors and one Black juror in the 2000 federal trial, said Vialva's attorney, Susan Otto.
Prosecutors portrayed Vialva "as if he were the leader of a violent and well-organized street gang," Otto said.
More than 46 percent of the 56 inmates on federal death row are Black. Black people make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population.
According to the Justice Department, Todd and Stacie Bagley were killed in Fort Hood, Texas, in 1999 after having agreed to give Vialva and two of his friends a ride in their car.
Vialva pulled out a gun and forced the couple into the trunk, and the group of teenagers drove around for a few hours, stopping to try to withdraw money from the Bagleys' bank account and to pawn Stacie Bagley's ring, according to the Justice Department. Vialva eventually parked at the site of the Fort Hood military reservation and shot the couple while another man set the car on fire, according to the Justice Department.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/u-s-set-execute-black-man-double-murder-committed-19-n1240990?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma