John Barefield was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Cindy Rounsaville
According to court documents Barefield was the leader of a gang who would torment an area by searching and sexually assaulting women. Barefield and his accomplices would kidnap Cindy Rounsaville who would be sexually assaulted and murdered
Barefield would be arrested ,convicted and sentenced to death
John Barefield would be executed by lethal injection on March 12 1997
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John Barefield Case
The leader of a gang that hunted through Houston apartment complexes for people to rape and rob during a six-month period in 1985-86 was executed on Wednesday for the shooting death of a college student 11 years ago.
The convicted gang leader, John Kennedy Barefield, 32, died by lethal injection for the abduction, rape and murder of Cindy Rounsaville, an architecture student at Rice University, in 1986. Mr. Barefield, who was born four months after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, was named for him.
In April 1986, John Barefield and two other men abducted Ms. Rounsaville, 25, at gunpoint in the parking lot of her apartment complex. They forced her to withdraw $70 from an automatic teller machine and raped her in a car.
Evidence at his trial showed he shot her twice in the head as she was on her hands and knees in a field after running from the car.
