Alfred Bourgeois was executed by the Federal Government for the sexual assault and murder of his two year old daughter
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Alfred Bourgeois Case
A 55-year-old Louisiana man who was convicted of capital murder in the killing of his daughter in South Texas is set to be executed Friday.
Alfred Bourgeois, a truck driver from LaPlace, Louisianna, was convicted of capital murder in 2004 for the death of his 2-year-old daughter at Naval Air Station-Corpus Christi.
He was also found guilty of physically and emotionally torturing, sexually molesting and beating the child to death, court records state.
In July 2002, Bourgeois, his daughter and two family members followed him on his trucking route to Corpus Christi naval base to deliver a shipment, according to court documents.
Documents state Bourgeois became angry with his daughter because she tipped over her potty training seat he would force her to sit on. He grabbed her by her shoulders and slammed the back of her head into the windshield around the dashboard four times, records state.
The child was taken to the hospital where she later died after being on life support. The medical examiner found deep tissue bruising in every area of the girl’s body, documents state.
uthorities also discovered Bourgeois had constantly abused the girl violently and sexually. Bourgeois was put on death row in 2004.
He is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection on Friday, Dec. 11 at the Federal Correction Complex Terre Haute in Indiana.
Alfred Bourgeois Execution
Louisiana truck driver Alfred Bourgeois was executed by the U.S. government on Friday.
Bourgeois, 56, was sentenced to death in 2004 for severely abusing and killing his 2-year-old daughter in Texas. He was executed at the Federal Correctional Center in Terre Haute, Indiana, according to the Associated Press.
Up until his death, Bourgeois’ lawyers argued he had an IQ that would put him in the intellectually disabled category and should have made him ineligible for the death penalty.
According to CNN, Bourgeois insisted upon his innocence in his final statement on Friday evening. “I ask God to forgive all those who plotted and schemed against me, and planted false evidence,” he said. “I did not commit this crime.”
Anti-death penalty activist Sister Helen Prejean, as well as politicians and other leaders, spoke out about Bourgeois’ case on Friday.
“The SCOTUS voted to allow the federal government to execute Alfred Bourgeois despite the fact that he is intellectually disabled with an IQ measured between 70-75,” Prejean wrote on Twitter.
“The depravity and evil of this admin’s race to murder as many people on death row as possible is shocking & inhumane,” added Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “We know how our carceral system works. The wealthy + privileged can buy freedom & leniency, the vulnerable are killed. It must stop. Abolish the death penalty.”
Bourgeois was the 10th death row inmate to be executed since President Donald Trump’s administration announced a revival of capital punishment for federal death row inmates in July 2019.
The decision, ending a 17-year hiatus, has been met with sharp criticism, though the Department of Justice has defended it.
“The Department intended to resume executions in December 2019, however due to litigation, the process was suspended,” a spokeswoman told CNN on Friday. “Once the Supreme Court ruled in favor of resuming executions, the Department has proceeded each month — with the exception of October — since July 2020.”
Bourgeois’ execution comes just one day after that of Brandon Bernard, who was convicted of two counts of murder for his involvement in the 1999 double murder of youth ministers Todd and Stacie Bagley.
“I’m sorry. That’s the only words that I can say that completely capture how I feel now and how I felt that day,” Bernard, 40, said before his death, according to the Associated Press. “I wish I could take it all back, but I can’t.”
There are three more executions of federal death row inmates planned in January, prior to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden.