Bruce Jacobs was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Conrad Harris
According to court documents Bruce Jacobs would break into the Harris household and would stab to death sixteen year old Conrad Harris. A day earlier Bruce Jacobs had attempted to force his way into the Harris residence
Bruce Jacobs was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Bruce Jacobs would be executed by lethal injection on May 15 2003
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Bruce Jacobs was executed on May 15 2003
Bruce Jacobs Case
Texas on Thursday executed a man who killed a Dallas teenager on his 16th birthday, stabbing him repeatedly with a butcher knife during a 1986 burglary. Bruce Charles Jacobs, 56, was executed by lethal injection at the state prison in Huntsville, becoming the 15th killer put to death this year in Texas.
He was condemned for breaking into the home of Conrad Harris early on the morning of July 22, 1986, and stabbing the boy more than two dozen times with a butcher knife he had taken from the kitchen. The boy’s parents were roused by his screams, and father Hugh Harris burst into the bedroom to find Jacobs standing over Conrad with the bloody knife in his hand. Jacobs fled out the back door.
A medical examiner at Jacobs’ trial testified that the boy lost more than half his blood, and that part of the knife broke off inside him. Jacobs had tried to force his way into the home the day before the killing. A high school dropout who worked at menial jobs, he had been convicted of assault in Oregon and had a history of harassing women and violence with knives.
Asked for a final statement, Jacobs quoted Biblical scripture. He thanked a few supporters who watched from a nearby observation room and said “Take care of yourselves and y’all stay strong.” For his final meal, Jacobs requested a whole fried chicken, 12 buttered bread slices, fried onion rings, fried okra, a six-pack of RC Cola, two tomatoes and a large bag of Fritos corn chips.
Jacobs was the 304th inmate executed by Texas since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982, six years after the US Supreme Court lifted a nationwide death penalty ban. There are two executions scheduled for next month in Texas, by far the nation’s busiest death penalty state.
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