On this date, May 14, 2020, The Mississippi State Supreme Court upheld the guilty verdict of a Gulfport man’s capital murder charge and death sentence. Alberto Garcia pleaded guilty to the 2014 death of five-year-old Janaya Thompson. He was sentenced to death by Judge Lisa Dodson on Jan. 25, 2017.
I hope this death sentence will be upheld and the execution would be carried out. Paedophiles or those who murder children should not live at all.
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A judge has ruled that Alberto Garcia, left, must be executed for the 2014 murder of five year-old Janaya Thompson, right (Pictures: WLOX) |
Death sentence for Janaya Thompson’s killer upheld by Miss. Supreme Court
By WLOX Staff | May 14, 2020 at 3:11 PM CDT - Updated May 14 at 3:11 PM
GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - The Mississippi State Supreme Court upheld the guilty verdict of a Gulfport man’s capital murder charge and death sentence.
Alberto Garcia pleaded guilty to the 2014 death of five-year-old Janaya Thompson. He was sentenced to death by Judge Lisa Dodson on Jan. 25, 2017.
The Supreme Court affirmed the sentence Thursday, saying “the sentence imposed - death- is proportionate compared to other similar cases.”
During the 2017 trial, Dodson took a little more than three hours to deliberate the sentence. Before pronouncing the sentence, she said, “This is one of the worst I’ve ever seen in terms of what happened to this child.”
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Alberto Garcia was sentenced to death Wednesday, January 25, 2017 (Photo source: WLOX) |
Child sex killer who hanged victim, 5, from metal bar with socks must be executed
Jimmy McCloskey Friday 15 May 2020 2:51 pm
A child sex killer who hanged his five year-old victim from a metal bar with two pairs of socks must be put to death. A judge ruled Thursday that Alberto Garcia was not eligible to be spared execution for the July 2014 murder of Janaya Thompson in Gulfport, Mississippi.
Anyone sentenced to death in the state is automatically granted an appeal against that sentence, with Mississippi’s Supreme Court ruling that the death penalty was ‘proportionate’ to Garcia’s crime, and in-line with other sentences handed out for similar offenses.
Garcia admitted Janaya’s murder in January 2017 after DNA evidence linked him to a sexual assault prosecutors said Janaya had suffered before her death. During a 2014 pre-trial hearing, Gulfport Police Detective Samuel Jewell shared horrific details of how his officers had discovered Janaya’s body in an empty trailer, saying: ‘We found Janaya Thompson with her back was against the west wall.
‘She was hung with what we know now as two pairs of socks and that was attached to a metal bar in a small window attached to above the tub. She was suspended.’
The youngster was found a day after she went missing, and 12 hours after a massive search began to try and track her down. Garcia told investigators how Janaya’s stricken relatives had knocked on his door asking if he’d seen her, with the killer even joining in the search party despite knowing the youngster had died at his hands.
After his arrest, Garcia claimed he’d blacked out and was not sure what he might have done during that period. He later confessed a partial-involvement to the killing in a bid to avoid his mom having to hear the case against him in court, with 100 pieces of evidence collected by detectives helping seal the case against him.
Speaking a year after his daughter’s murder Janaya’s dad Jarmal Thompson told WLOX that he had therapy to try and help him cope with his grief, and that he continued to struggle with the dreadful circumstances of the little girl’s death.
He said: ‘I had my dark moments. Was she hungry? Why was she there? What was going on? What would make someone do something like that? It hurts me to think like that.
‘It made me weak. It made me sick. There were days I couldn’t eat. Most of the time I wouldn’t talk. I box myself in. Just knowing the joy that I had in my daughter’s life, she made me a proud person.’
INTERNET SOURCE:https://metro.co.uk/2020/05/15/child-sex-killer-who-hanged-victim-5-metal-bar-socks-will-executed-12709493/
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Janaya MaKayla Thompson (October 15, 2008 to July 17, 2014) |
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