KILLER dad Alfred Bourgeois has been executed after spending nearly two decades on death row for killing his toddler daughter for tripping over her training potty.
He became the second prisoner to be executed in as many days at a federal prison in Terre Haute, on December 11.
What time was Alfred Bourgeois's execution?
One day after carrying out its ninth federal execution of the year, the US Department of Justice put to death on December 11.
by at 8:21pm CT.
The Death Penalty Information Center didn't say when exactly the convicted killer was going to be given a lethal injection.
Alfred Bourgeois got three weeks’ notice for his execution date, according to the Texas Tribune, after Attorney General William Barr resumed the death penalty in 2019 and scheduled executions for the first time since 2003.
The monster dad physically and emotionally tortured, sexually molested, and then beat to death his two-year-old daughter, explains the DoJ.
On March 16, 2004, a jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of Texas found Bourgeois guilty of multiple offenses, including murder, and he was sentenced to death.
Bourgeois’ execution was initially scheduled to occur on January 13, 2020.
Where did his execution take place?
, from , was executed at the Federal Correction Complex Terre Haute in Indiana.
According to horrific legal papers, given to the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit, he "systematically abused and tortured his two-year-old daughter in several ways.
"For example, Bourgeois became fixated on her toilet training."
The toddler's training potty became her "primary seat during the day, and Bourgeois even forced her to sleep on it when they were traveling at night".
When she had 'accidents,' Bourgeois would strike her, the papers add.
He punched her in the face with enough force to give her black eyes.
The evil dad also "whipped her with an electrical cord, and he beat her with a belt so hard that it broke.
"Bourgeois hit [the girl] in the head with a plastic baseball bat so many times that her head 'was swollen like a football'.
"Later, when he was in jail, Bourgeois laughed to a fellow inmate that '[t]hat f***ing baby's head got as big as a watermelon'," the court documents add.
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How was Alfred Bourgeois executed?
Alfred Bourgeois will be put to death by lethal injection.