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The State of Texas has argued, repeatedly and eloquently, that Jesse DeWayne Jacobs did not pull the trigger of a .38-cal. pistol that killed a woman named Etta Ann Urdiales in 1986. The state convinced a jury that Jacobs did not even know that his sister, who the prosecutor...
At 12:02 a.m. last Wednesday, he was strapped to a gurney in Huntsville state prison, his arms pierced by needles attached to intravenous tubes that would carry a lethal dose of metabolic poison moments later. Jacobs, 44, devoted most of his last earthly words to protesting the injustice of...
He was not the only one who found the circumstance of his execution implausible, if not illegal. Though the U.S. Supreme Court curtly dismissed his final appeal by a vote of 6 to 3, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote a sharp / dissent. "I find this course of events deeply troubling...
The story began in 1986, when Jacobs' sister, Bobbie Jean Hogan, enlisted him to kidnap Urdiales from her Conroe, Texas, apartment. Urdiales was the former wife of Hogan's boyfriend. She had upset Hogan by badgering her former husband for child-support money. At Hogan's prompting, Jacobs adbucted Urdiales...
Jacobs initially confessed to killing Urdiales. And it was plausible. After all, he had been on parole in Texas since 1983 after serving part of a 25- to 50-year sentence for participating in the murder of a mentally retarded man in Illinois in 1973. Immediately after Urdiales' murder, he...