Tony Chambers was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of eleven year old Carenthia Bailey
According to court documents Tony Chambers was scene leaving a basketball game with eleven year old Carenthia Bailey. The little girl would later be found sexually assaulted and murdered
Tony Chambers was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Tony Chambers would be executed by lethal injection on November 15 2000
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Tony Chambers was executed on November 15 2000
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Tony Chambers was executed Wednesday night for the abduction, rape and strangulation of an 11-year-old Tyler girl. Chambers, 32, was the 37th inmate to be put to death in Texas this year, tying the record number of executions carried out by the state in 1997. The execution of Johnny Paul Penry is set for tonight.
Chambers was convicted in the murder of Carenthia Marie Bailey, who disappeared after attending a middle school basketball game 10 years ago in Tyler. Chambers was seen leaving the basketball game with the girl Nov. 19, 1990. Her body was found two days later in a wooded area near Tyler’s Dogan Middle School. On it were some 20 etchings carved into her stomach. Prosecutors said Chambers carved those marks in her body, using a scalpel and protractor.
In a brief statement, he expressed love to his family and his friends present. “Mom, I just want y’all to know that I love you,” he said. “No matter what in life, I want you to stay strong.” He did not acknowledge the presence of the mother of his victim, who watched through a window a few feet away. As the drugs were to about to be administered, however, he addressed his father. “Dad, I want you to stay strong.” He coughed six times, then sputtered once, the breathed a long sigh. He was pronounced dead at 6:18 p.m., six minutes after the drugs began flowing into his arms.
Tonight, Johnny Paul Penry, a mentally retarded inmate, is set to die for the 1979 rape-slaying of Pamela Moseley Carpenter, a Livingston housewife. After 21 years in prison, two competency trials and two murder trials, Penry, 44, is set to die today for the 1979 rape and murder of Pamela Moseley Carpenter of Livingston. The Texas board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a plea Tuesday for a reprieve. An appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court was pending.