Kevin Kincy was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Jerome Harville
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Kevin Kincy was executed by lethal injection on March 29 2006
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Kevin Kincy was executed on March 29 2006
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A former pizza delivery man with an extensive criminal record was executed today for the robbery and slaying of a Houston-area man 13 years ago. In a brief statement, Kevin Kincy thanked his friends, supporters and family and mentioned several of them by name. “I love my children. I love my family,” he said. “That’s it.”
In the seconds before the drugs took effect, Kincy pursed his lips into a kiss and smiled and nodded to a Swiss woman who married him by proxy last year. The woman and a female companion from Germany wept. Kincy had met his wife on a death penalty Web site that seeks pen pals. Five relatives of his murder victim watched through an adjacent window. Kincy made only a brief glance at them before the drugs were administered. He was pronounced dead at 6:26 p.m., eight minutes after the lethal drugs began to flow.
Kincy, 38, was on parole for delivery of cocaine when he was arrested in Louisiana following a police chase for the stabbing and shooting of Jerome Harville at his home outside Jacinto City. Kincy, from Houston, was the seventh convicted killer executed this year in Texas, the nation’s busiest capital punishment state. At least a dozen more inmates have death dates in the coming months, including three in April and five in May.
Kincy’s lawyers, hoping to block the lethal injection, went to the U.S. Supreme Court with an appeal challenging the drugs used in the execution as unconstitutionally cruel. Like similar appeals in recent Texas death penalty cases, however, the high court rejected the argument in a ruling about 1 1/2 hours before Kincy’s scheduled punishment. “It’s not very good,” attorney Alex Calhoun had said of his prospects. “The whole point of appeals is maybe there’s that one case that catches the Supreme Court’s attention.”
Kincy had the attention of Texas Department of Criminal Justice officials, who scrapped media interviews with him last week after they said he threatened prison staff at the Polunsky Unit near Livingston, which includes death row. Early today, Kincy spent time with his mother, Dorothy Robertson, before his transfer to the Huntsville Unit where executions are carried out. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers were added to the normal security from the prison system to beef up the law enforcement presence for Kincy’s trip to Huntsville. There were no unusual incidents and Kincy was reported as very quiet in a holding cell adjacent to the death chamber in the hours before scheduled punishment.
The visit with his mother marked the first time he had seen her since she was arrested last summer. Polk County authorities pulled her over after she left the prison and found about a pound of marijuana in her van. She contended she was duped by someone who disguised the package as a gift and the arrest was a continuation of harassment against her and her son.
Harville, the 31-year-old slaying victim, had worked for three years as an industrial hygienist at an Exxon refinery in Baytown and was the former boyfriend of Charlotte Kincy, the prisoner’s cousin.
According to a witness at Kincy’s trial, the cousins hatched a plan where Harville would be seduced and distracted by his old girlfriend, allowing Kevin Kincy to sneak into the home and shoot him. Evidence showed that after Harville was shot, Charlotte Kincy stabbed him several times. The pair then ransacked his place and stole numerous items, including furniture and his car. Colleagues at Exxon became worried when Harville didn’t show up for work and went to his house. When they saw it had been trashed, they called police, who found his body.
About two weeks later, an FBI agent ran the plates on a Honda Accord traveling about 100 mph on Interstate 10 east of Beaumont and determined it was Harville’s stolen vehicle. The ensuing chase covered some 30 miles and ended in Westlake, La., with a flat tire after Kincy crashed through a police roadblock as officers fired at him. Kincy denied any knowledge of the Harville killing, but items he threw out the window of the speeding car led police to his cousin, Charlotte. She pleaded to a 40-year prison term.
At the time of his arrest, Kincy was free on bond on a weapons charge. He also was on parole after a cocaine delivery conviction and had other convictions beginning at age 18 for marijuana possession, theft and burglary. During his time in prison, records showed he had more than 30 disciplinary violations. “They can hang him,” Hosea Harville, 83, of St. Louis, the murder victim’s father, told the Houston Chronicle. “He killed a good man.”
Next on the execution schedule is Pedro Sosa, set to die April 25 for the 1983 fatal shooting of a Wilson County sheriff’s deputy.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3757561.html
