{"id":2531,"date":"2020-12-11T10:55:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T18:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2020-12-11T11:51:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:51:37","slug":"federal-murderer-executed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2531","title":{"rendered":"Federal Murderer Executed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man convicted of participating in the double-murder of a young Texas couple was executed by lethal injection at a federal penitentiary Thursday.\u00a0 Paulina Smolinski and Clare Hymes of CBS News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/brandon-bernard-executed-federal-government\/\">report<\/a> that Brandon Bernard apologized for the murders before he died. \u00a0 Facts presented in a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals <a href=\"https:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/appellate-courts\/F3\/299\/467\/521658\/\">decision<\/a> indicate that in June of 1999, two members of a gang that Bernard belonged to kidnapped Todd and Stacie Bagley from a convenience store parking lot. After taking Stadie&#8217;s jewelry and the couple&#8217;s ATM cards, they forced them to drive to a bank where the kidnappers withdrew money from an ATM.\u00a0\u00a0 They then met up with Bernard and another gang member who had brought a can of gasoline.\u00a0 The four then drove the couple to a remote federal preserve, forced them into the trunk before one of the group shot both victims with Bernard&#8217;s .40 caliber Glock.\u00a0 Bernard then doused the car with gasoline and set it on fire.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Stacie, who had survived the shooting, died of smoke inhalation.\u00a0 Police, responding to the fire, caught all four gang members at the scene.\u00a0 In last minute appeals, Bernard&#8217;s attorneys argued that he should have received a life sentence because he did not shoot the victims, he was not a leader in the criminal gang he belonged to, and that he has been well behaved while in prison.\u00a0 Todd Bagley&#8217;s mother thanked President Trump and Attorney General Barr for bringing her family closure.<\/p>\n<p>Federal murderer Alfred Bourgeois is scheduled to be executed at a federal prison in Terre Haute today.\u00a0 USA Today <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/louisiana-man-tortured-killed-toddler-215709282.html\">reports<\/a> that\u00a0 Bourgeois was found guilty and sentenced to death for the repeated sexual and physical abuse of his two-year-old daughter over most of her life.\u00a0 In 2002 she died after he slammed her head against a windshield for tipping over her potty seat.\u00a0\u00a0 The gruesome details of the little girl&#8217;s life and death are provided in this 2005 Federal Appeals Court <a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/us-5th-circuit\/1369349.html\">decision<\/a>.\u00a0 I doubt that there will be a candlelight vigil outside the prison protesting the execution of this creature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man convicted of participating in the double-murder of a young Texas couple was executed by lethal injection at a federal penitentiary Thursday.\u00a0 Paulina Smolinski and Clare Hymes of CBS News report that Brandon Bernard apologized for the murders before he died. \u00a0 Facts presented in a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision indicate that in June of 1999, two members of a gang that Bernard belonged to kidnapped Todd and Stacie Bagley from a convenience store parking lot. After taking Stadie&#8217;s jewelry and the couple&#8217;s ATM cards, they forced them to drive to a bank where the kidnappers withdrew money from an ATM.\u00a0\u00a0 They then met up with Bernard and another gang member who had brought a can of gasoline.\u00a0 The four then drove the couple to a remote federal preserve, forced them into the trunk before one of the group shot both victims with Bernard&#8217;s .40 caliber Glock.\u00a0 Bernard then doused the car with gasoline and set it on fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Federal Murderer Executed - Crime &amp; Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=2531\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Federal Murderer Executed - Crime &amp; Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A man convicted of participating in the double-murder of a young Texas couple was executed by lethal injection at a federal penitentiary Thursday.\u00a0 Paulina Smolinski and Clare Hymes of CBS News report that Brandon Bernard apologized for the murders before he died. \u00a0 Facts presented in a Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decision indicate that in June of 1999, two members of a gang that Bernard belonged to kidnapped Todd and Stacie Bagley from a convenience store parking lot. 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