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| Texas Executes Man Who Killed Teenager |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/20/2003 |
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A man convicted of stabbing a boy to death with a butcher knife in a frenzied attack on the youngster's 16th birthday was executed by injection May 15. Bruce Charles Jacobs, 56, recited the 23rd Psalm as his final statement. Jacobs was convicted of killing Conrad Harris in 1986 after forcing his way into the teenager's Dallas home. The boy was stabbed at least 24 times and part of the knife blade was left imbedded in his body. The boy's father witnessed the crime and identified Jacobs as the killer. Defense lawyers claimed Jacobs was mentally ill but couldn't prove he was mentally retarded, which would make him ineligible for execution under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year. |
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