[MeekOneGOP]

http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/stat/deathrow.htm

	Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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Name	TDCJ Number	Date of Birth
Hearn, Yokamon L.	999292	11/6/78
Date Received	Age (when Received)	Education Level (Highest Grade Completed)
12/31/98	20	10 years
Date of Offense	Age (at the time of Offense)	County
3/26/98	19	Dallas
Race	Gender	Hair Color
Black	Male	Black
Height	Weight	Eye Color
5-8	184	Brown
Native County	Native State	Prior Occupation
Dallas	Texas	Unknown
Prior Prison Record
None
Summary of incident
On March 26, 1998, Hearn and 3 co-defendants approached the victim (a 26 year old white male) with a gun.  They forced the victim into his own car, took him to a deserted area, and shot him 12 times in the head and upper body, resulting in his death.  Hearn and the co-defendants took the victim's wallet and personal items and fled in the victim's vehicle.
Co-defendants
Delvin Dites; Dwight Burley; Theresa Shirley
Race and Gender of Victim
White male
Photograph of Offender

Last Updated:  December 10, 2003

[KantianBurke]

fry'em.

[MEG33]

The world will be a better place without this murderer.

[MeekOneGOP]

Condemned Dallas carjacker set to die Thursday

Yokamon Hearn 

Excerpt:

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Frank Meziere had watched a Dallas Mavericks basketball game at a restaurant with a friend and before heading home stopped at a self-service car wash to clean his black Mustang convertible.

The 23-year-old Plano stockbroker, a 1996 Texas A&M University graduate, never made it home.

His body was found the next day, March 26, 1998, along the side of a road in an industrial area of Oak Cliff, an area of south Dallas. He had been shot in the head 10 times. His car was found about five miles away, abandoned and with the lights on.

"Having dealt with murders, you think you've seen it all," said Jason January, a former Dallas County assistant district attorney. "But this innocent victim was shot almost for sport.

"It was just the sheer overkill of the thing that was ludicrous."

Yokamon Hearn bragged to friends about how he "domed" Meziere, meaning he shot him in the head. Hearn was set to die Thursday evening for the slaying.

Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my Texas Executions ping list!. . .don't be shy.

[writer33]

There is a need for the death penalty. And states that enforce it only help remind murderers that they will forfeit their life should they commit the act.

[John123]

Am I reading this right? Texas is executing this creep six years after the crime? In California, where I used to live, the average length of time is over 20 years. If that.

There must be something about "Do not mess with Texas."

[Born Conservative]

I wonder what he'll have for breakfast?

[jimt]

I'm getting very tired of the "mentally retarded" copout.

This POS had the mental capacity to murder - to me that means he has the mental capacity to be executed.

[PaulaB]

This is one of the reasons I live in this great state called Texas....Goodbye and good riddance.

[american spirit]

Shot over ten times in the head....in almost "sportlike" fashion....victim is white....shooter is black, yet not even a vague reference to this being a hate crime! Has the life of young white males now been devalued so much that our alleged legal system does not even investigate the possiblity of this heinous act being a hate crime?

[per loin]

In an appeal filed this week, lawyers for Hearn said the inmate may be mentally retarded and asked the courts to halt the punishment so they can pursue their claim.

Looks like there is a double benefit in snuffing this creep.

[PISANO]

Cleaning out the gene pool!

[petercooper]

good riddance scumbag

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Sometimes I question my support of the death penalty, and if I'm being hypocritical as a Christian being pro-life and pro-death penalty.

Then I read about an incident like this and I have no doubts. Good riddance to scum.

[Gunslingr3]

Hearn swung the Tec-9, a 9 mm assault-style rifle

Say what?!

Tec-9 semi-automatic handgun.

[smokinleroy]

What's this "Condemned Dallas carjacker" crap in the headline? Why does it not say "Vicious, cold-blooded murderer" instead. Then again, if I'd been given the name "Yokamon", I might have grown up a little bitter myself.

[jjm2111]

Rule no. 1, never get in a car w/ a criminal. Run and weave, die fighting if you must, shoot back if you can, but never, ever, get in a car w/ the carjacker.

[End Times Sentinel]

His body was found the next day, March 26, 1998...

He would be the ninth condemned Texas prisoner to receive lethal injection this year and the second in as many nights. ...

GREAT WORK OUTTA YOU, TEXAS!!!  Less than six years from murder to grave!

Here in PA, we're at 22 years and counting waiting for this P.O.S. to meet allah in hell.

Wesley Cook (aka Mumia Abu Jamal)

Murdered Officer Daniel Faulkener Dec 8, 1991

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

 

[MeekOneGOP]

Here is the one that was executed yesterday ...

Killer of assistant prosecutor executed

06:38 PM CST on Wednesday, March 3, 2004

Associated Press

HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Convicted killer Marcus Cotton was executed Wednesday evening for the fatal shooting of a Houston-area assistant district attorney during a robbery attempt 7 1/2 years ago.

"Well Mom, sometimes it works out like this," Cotton said from the death chamber gurney as his mother, who was among the witnesses, watched through a window. "When you are dealing with reality, real is not always what you want it to be."

Cotton, 29, told his relatives to take care of themselves and that he loved them and his children.

"Y'all are fixing to find out some deep things that are real. Bounce back, baby. You know what I'm saying. Y'all take care of yourselves," he said.

As the drugs began taking effect, he gasped and sputtered. Six minutes later, at 6:13 p.m., he was pronounced dead.

Cotton, 29, had been out of prison less than seven months after serving time for attempted murder when he was arrested for gunning down Gil Epstein, 27, a Fort Bend County assistant prosecutor. Epstein was shot in 1996 while leaving Houston's Jewish Community Center after playing basketball with friends.

Cotton was the eighth convicted murderer to receive lethal injection this year in Texas and the first of two scheduled for consecutive nights this week.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week refused to review his case, and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a clemency request.

Epstein was considered a rising star at the Fort Bend County district attorney's office, where he had interned while attending law school at the University of Houston.

"He was a very engaging young man and truly a gift to humanity," said Greg Gilleland, a former colleague. "I learned an incredible deal from him not only about the practice of law, and about courtroom theatrics and presentation of a trial case to a jury, but about life in general. My friend, he was a good person."

Gilleland, along with Epstein's brother and mother, were on the witness list to see Cotton die.

"I don't mean any disrespect to those people, but they have no facts," Cotton said recently from the visiting area of death row. "They believe in the system. The system brought this person – me – and said this is the person who killed your son. ... The system is broken."

Cotton, from the Houston suburb Missouri City, had an extensive criminal arrest record for theft and drug dealing.

He was convicted of two counts of drug possession in 1992, received a four-year prison term and was paroled less than three months later. In 1993, he was convicted of attempted murder for shooting a man at a Houston apartment complex, served four years of a six-year term and was released under mandatory supervision. The day of the Epstein's killing, Cotton's parole officer had received approval to place an electronic monitor on Cotton's ankle.

Cotton denied he was the gunman who confronted Epstein in the community center parking lot and demanded his wallet. According to testimony at his trial, Cotton shot Epstein after spotting his district attorney badge in the wallet.

"I don't have any remorse because I didn't do it," Cotton said from prison.

Tips to police led to Cotton, who was arrested at his girlfriend's home about a week after the slaying.

Epstein was one of two men confronted by robbers outside the center that night. The other victim testified that he saw Cotton inside Epstein's car. Epstein was found dead in the back seat, shot twice in the head. A former security guard also testified she saw Cotton point a gun at Epstein.

The second gunman, Lawrence Watson, testified against Cotton in exchange for a 10-year prison term. Both had ridden their bicycles to the community center.

Cotton was tried twice for the slaying. The first trial was declared a mistrial when a juror refused to deliberate.

Epstein was raised in New York City and attended the University of Miami in Florida, then came to Houston for law school.

Another condemned prisoner, Yokamon Hearn, was set to die Thursday evening for a carjacking, abduction and fatal shooting in Dallas in 1998.

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Online at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/030404dntexexecution.55e6c.html

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	Texas Department of Criminal Justice
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Name	TDCJ Number	Date of Birth
Cotton, Marcus B.	999252	9/28/74
Date Received	Age (when Received)	Education Level (Highest Grade Completed)
2/4/98	23	9 years
Date of Offense	Age (at the time of Offense)	County
9/18/96	22	Harris
Race	Gender	Hair Color
Black	Male	Black
Height	Weight	Eye Color
5-6	147	Brown
Native County	Native State	Prior Occupation
Harris	Texas	Laborer
Prior Prison Record
Convicted on two counts of possession of a controlled substance on 1/21/92 and sentenced to four years in prison. Held in the Harris County Jail and released from the jail on 4/4/92 under paroled in absentia provisions. TDCJ #651521, received 11/24/93, Harris County, 6 years, attempted murder, released under mandatory supervision to Harris Co. on 2/26/96
Summary of incident
Convicted in the September 1996 shooting death of  a white male Fort Bend County Assistant District Attorney outside the Jewish Community Center in Houston. Cotton and accomplice Lawrence Watson, both armed with pistols, were riding bicycles through the community center parking lot when Watson spotted another male exiting his vehicle. Watson approached this male, put a .38-caliber pistol to his head, and robbed him of his cash. Meanwhile, Cotton saw the Assistant District Attorney outside the center and demanded money from him after pulling a 380 semi-automatic pistol. The victim told Cotton he had no money but that he had valuables in his car. As Cotton put him in the back seat of his Mustang, the other robbery victim, who had gone driving around to the front of the community center to call police, again drove into the parking lot and began blowing his car horn and blinking his lights in an effort to ward off the robbers. Cotton reportedly ordered Watson to shoot the man in the car blowing his horn and then fired two shots into the Assistant District Attorney's head. As the robbers attempted to flee on their bicycles, the man in the other vehicle gave chase in his car and struck Cotton, who with Watson managed to escape on foot by jumping a fence. Following his arrest, Watson implicated Cotton, telling police that Cotton killed the Assistant District Attorney because he had seen the gold badge the victim carried with him as a member of the district attorney’s office. The badge was found lying at the victim’s feet inside the car. Witnesses also told police that Cotton later bragged about “shooting the law” after seeing the badge.
Co-defendants
Lawrence Edward Watson
Race and Gender of Victim
White male
Photograph of Offender

Last Updated:  August 31, 2001

[albee]

"...Dallas jurors agreed, deliberating less than an hour to convict Hearn and about an hour before deciding on punishment."

But...but...poor Yokoman was deprived as a child and wouldn't hurt anyone. Besides. we just learned that he is retarded. It is not his fault! He is a good boy! /sarcasm

[Bonaparte]

"The U.S. Supreme Court has barred execution of the mentally retarded."

But permits the execution of the mentally undeveloped if they are innocent, blameless, helpless and in the womb. Any honest man will place those black-robed executioners among the worst mass murderers of all time, second only to the communists.