Draggingtree Posted May 31, 2015 Share Posted May 31, 2015 30 years on death row and many appeals later, 'deck is always stacked against you' Lester Bower will be the second-longest tenured Texas inmate to be put to death in modern era but will a seventh stay of execution save him? Lester Bower made for an unlikely mass murderer. At the time when four men were shot dead in an aircraft hanger near Dallas, Bower was a 35-year-old, college-educated, married father of two who made a comfortable living as a chemicals salesman and did not have a criminal record. That was in 1983. Bower was convicted of the killings the following year and has been on death row ever since, maintaining his innocence and launching appeal after appeal. Texas has attempted to kill him six times only for Bower to be granted stays when facing imminent execution, most recently in February. The state will try again 3 June, when the 67-year-old is scheduled to die by lethal injection. He will be the oldest inmate executed in Texas since capital punishment was restored in the US in 1976. http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/29/texas-death-row-inmate-lester-bower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted May 31, 2015 Author Share Posted May 31, 2015 Scheduled Execution 06/03/2015 Offender Information Bower Lester 764 11/20/1947 W 05/10/1984 Grayson https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/death_row/dr_info/bowerlester.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draggingtree Posted June 2, 2015 Author Share Posted June 2, 2015 Arlington JUNE 1, 2015 Arlington Death Row inmate maintains innocence as his execution date nears LIVINGSTON On Wednesday, the long stay of Lester Leroy Bower on Texas’ Death Row will likely come to an end. With his appellate avenues apparently exhausted, the 67-year-old is scheduled to be put to death for the 1983 slaughter of four men in a Grayson County airplane hangar. During his 31 years behind bars, Bower’s two daughters have grown and begun families of their own. Bower and his wife, Shari, have divorced and remarried. Once a husky outdoorsman and hobbyist, Bower has turned into an old man as he waited for his case to wind its tortuous way through the American judicial system. http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/community/arlington/article22786248.html#storylink=cpy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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