Jesse Joe Hernandez
UPDATE: He’s good and dead. But mostly dead. And he was every bit the piece of shit laying on his death bed as he was in life:
A convicted child sex offender was executed Wednesday for the beating death of a 10-month-old boy he was baby-sitting at a home in Dallas.
Jesse Joe Hernandez smiled and laughed at times before receiving a lethal injection for the slaying of Karlos Borja 11 years ago.
“God bless everybody. Continue to walk with God,” the 47-year-old Hernandez said. Moments later, he shouted “Go Cowboys!” in honor of his favorite football team.
You know, because the death of a 10-month old boy and your life ending for that horrendous crime is a laughing matter. And instead of showing any type of remorse or sorrow for beating an infant to death, he used his final words to root for a football team?
As I’ve often said, some people are just so evil that the world is a better place without them in it — Jesse Joe Hernandez was certainly one of those people. And the world is better off with him gone from it.
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- Thug: Jesse Joe Hernandez (36 at time of offense)
- Date of Execution: March 28, 2012, sometime shortly after 6:00 pm HTT
- Date of Crime: April 11, 2001
- Victim(s): Karlos Borja (11 months)
- Last Meal: Same shit salad being fed to every other thug on the row that day
- Final Words: Go Cowboys! (no seriously)
Pretty much the last guy you would want to leave watching your children. But that’s exactly what one mother did.
And it cost her the life of her 11-month old baby boy, Karlos Borja, whom Hernandez beat to death with a flashlight (Hernandez also beat the 4-year old sister with the flashlight, but she survived her head injuries).
Via the Houston Chronicle:
Prosecutors described 37-year-old handyman Jesse Joe Hernandez as a “baby-killing, child-molesting, woman-beating ex-con.”
The jury, which convicted Hernandez on Thursday, took 90 minutes Monday to decide on the punishment for killing Karlos Borja on April 11, 2001. The child suffered a fractured skull and was bruised and battered from head to toe.
The jury found that Hernandez posed a continuing threat to society and that there were no mitigating circumstances why his life should be spared.
According to testimony, Hernandez baby-sat Karlos and his 4-year-old sister while the children’s mother waited tables at a Mesquite restaurant.
Hernandez was linked to the fatal beating through traces of his DNA mixed with the boy’s blood on a pillowcase and a jumper.
Hernandez at first denied any role in beating the two children that afternoon. Later, he said he walked into the children’s room with a flashlight and backhanded them for crying too much. He told detectives he may have hit the children with the flashlight, the Dallas Morning News reported in its online edition Monday night.
He backhanded an 11-month old baby in the head with a heavy mag-flashlight because the baby was crying? There is a special place in hell for those who would harm the most innocent and defenseless — babies and the elderly.
If you’re one of those die-hard anti-death penalty zealots (like the Texas Tribune’s own resident anti-death penalty activist, Brandi Grissom) and you do not believe that Hernandez poses a continuing threat to society, let me ask you this: would you leave him alone with your children? I didn’t think so. Because there is a good chance that he would rape and/or murder your child. To me, that is the text book definition of “continuing threat.”
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He’s got an appeal before the USSC set for conference on 3/30, so expect a stay.
The state introduced evidence that Hernandez had been previously
convicted of indecency with a child, possession of cocaine, assault, driving
while intoxicated, possession of marijuana, and failure to register as a sex
offender, and had never successfully completed probation. 37 RR 10-11.
The victim in the indecency case testified that when she was ten years old
Hernandez violated her more than once. Id. at 12-13. The assault victim
testified that Hernandez hit him in the head with a glass, lacerating his
face, when the victim defended his wife against Hernandez. Id. at 16-17.
An ex-girlfriend testified that Hernandez retaliated after they broke up
by breaking into her house and stealing valuables. Id. at 35. Her son
testified that during the relationship, Hernandez beat him and burned
him with cigarettes when he was five or six, but threatened to hurt him
if he told his mother. Id. at 39, 43. A guard at the jail recounted
Hernandez’s possession of a shank. Id. at 22. A former inmate described
Hernandez’s fistfights and an attack with a shank while they were
incarcerated together. Id. at 46-48.
Hernandez’s ex-wife explained “[t]here wasn’t a house or apartment
we lived in that didn’t have my head prints into it. We didn’t have much
furniture because it got broke a lot.” Id. at 52. Hernandez beat her while
she was pregnant with his three children, saying “Let’s see if the baby’s
gonna live today.” Id. at 52-53. He beat her with a baseball bat, and she
noted “I got hit the majority of our time together. Unless I was working.
God, did I want to work all the time.” Id. at 53. She had tried to leave
many times, but he always tracked her down, broke down doors, and once
nearly pushed her off a second-floor balcony. Id. at 54. The last straw
was his sexual abuse of her daughter in a bathtub. Id. at 54.
If the court doesn’t laugh this fucker’s lawyers right out the door, I’ll be stunned.
Damn, reading this guy’s criminal history makes me want to hurl. I’ll bet a billion quatloos he has a fan club and for them, here is the perfect article for their perverted cult like minds.
I Used to Love Her but I Had To Kill Her.
zur hölle mit diesem monster. in gedanken bei der familie des kleinen opfers.
schade, dass wir in deutschland nicht diese justiz haben.
die bea
And to Hell this monster shall go, right after he finishes manipulating our justice system for every molecule of oxygen he can steal.
Fic du! Leck mich am Arsch!
now stay out of our justice system.
GOD BLESS TEXAS!!
Directed to the anti’s not to “beate hergenröder” BTW;-)
What a heinous individual.
No place in any kind of society for this kind of person.
Even if I was family of JJH I’d be very hard pushed to find any sympathy or defence to what he’s done.
On an up note, the USSC denied both Cleve Foster and John Balentine.
They sent Donald Newbury and Ivan Cantu back to the 5th Circuit for consideration in light of Martinez.
Did the SCOTUS make a ruling in Martinez? I haven’t heard anything other than some discussion during the runup to the last execution.
They made a ruling on Martinez. http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/11pdf/10-1001.pdf
It’s 21h59 here. Rather a lot of words to ingest and understand after a hard day in the Spring sunshine.
Can anyone post up an unbiased precis of the ruling please?
Thanks.
There is no right to a successive petition arguing appellate IAC. You snooze; you lose.
Here is the TCCA opinion: http://www.crimeandconsequences.com/crimblog/documents/files/HernandezTexCCA.pdf
I really don’t understand this. It seems to be saying per Martinez, no state right but that they can still make the argument in federal court. However, I’m guessing here.
To an extent you’re right, but Scalia’s dissent essentially says that now in every capital case, one of the “monotonous” claims is IAC, and this will now be argued not only on direct appeal, but (endlessly) in every habeas proceeding.
In other words, if the direct appeal goes badly for the defendant, the defendant will argue IAC in the state habeas claim. But if that goes badly too, then the defendant will argue IAC in the federal habeas claim for BOTH the bad result of direct appeal AND the bad result of state habeas, and argue a constitutional right in the process. (And if the federal habeas goes badly, then we’ll most assuredly get ANOTHER argument of IAC for that.)
We may see a slowdown in the pipeline, with the only executions being those where (like the first of the Texas 7 to be executed) the defendant chooses not to appeal beyond the mandatory direct appeal, publicly tells the whole world so, and then survives some “well-meaning friend” arguing he’s too crazy to choose not to appeal.
Really enjoyable the amount of money you are forced to spend on your trash may it just increase even more, amen, God bless your investment LOL
Well, no surprise that you get off on guys who rape and murder children, sicko!
Adios pendejo!!!! Chupa la verga del diablo!!!!!
Potter County wasted no time:
The United States Supreme Court has denied a review for a convicted killer in Amarillo.
The Supreme Court Monday denied a Certiorari review for John Balentine, which means his stay of execution has been terminated.
Potter county is now seeking another execution date for Balentine.
In 1998, he killed three people in Amarillo and was put on Texas death row the following year.
In June of last year, he was granted a stay of execution.
http://goo.gl/XuevC
Then his could come quickly. If a date has already been set (the first cannot come before the 91st day after the date of the order), then a subsequent one can be set no earlier than the 31st day after the date of the subsequent order.
So I would expect Balentine’s name to show up on the list soon. I predict a June date though a May one is not out of the question.
Any updates as to whether Hernandez will be executed this evening or if he’s gotten a stay?
Are we still on for today? All seems quiet?
Not really. He has two appeals before the SupCt. One was last minute but the other was previously scheduled for conference on 3/30. Today, they are busy with oral arguments on other cases. They will issue the stay before 6 pm.
So the SCOTUS scheduled a conference on one of his appeals but didn’t issue a stay at that time, even though the conference is two days AFTER his set execution date?
If the SCOTUS is that messed up, I fear what they’ll end up deciding on ObamaCare.
This is Hernandez’ initial federal appeal. The TDCJ jumped the gun by setting this too soon though I suspect that they are only off by a week.
TDCJ doesn’t set execution dates. The presiding judge over the case does so, but only when it appears that no further appeals will be granted. And the presiding judge has no control over the actions of a higher court, state or federal. So once SCOTUS set a conference to hear the case it was their duty to also issue a stay as well.
Also, if the execution date is stayed, then the presiding judge has to wait until that matter is heard, and as this would be a subsequent execution date, by law it has to be at least 31 days after the order (the initial one has to be at least 91 days after the order).
Since you want to nitpik, they contact tdcj and get available dates and then the court picks one and sets it. The judge did not pick a date when it appeared no further appeals would be granted since he set it in Oct. and Hernandez had 90 days from 9/12/2011 to file his appeal. Hernandez filed a timely petition on Dec 12, 2011, and the case has been proceeding within the normal time limits. And no, the Court is not under a duty to issue a stay when they set it for conference. He will get his stay some time today. Why you have your panties in knots beats me nor am I interested.
Try reading the Texas Penal Code sometime (I summarized the execution procedure on Wikipedia under “Capital Punishment in Texas” so you don’t have to dig through much). It says the PRESIDING JUDGE, not TDCJ, sets the date, and says NOTHING about the judge “asking for an available date” (in fact there are no laws prohibiting any date from being used, including weekends and holidays, and no laws against multiple executions on a single day; the only constraint is that an execution must take place after 6PM Huntsville time).
But if you’re not interested then why are you here arguing? Go back to Europe where you let your killers roam free to kill again and make excuses for their behavior.
Try reading what I wrote, jackass: the court picks one and sets it. Why on earth would you want the judge to pick a date when they may not be fully staffed or already have an execution date set? I have read where the trial court has stated on the record that he wanted to contact TDCJ see what dates would be available just to avoid such issues.
But if you’re not interested then why are you here arguing?
I’m not interested in your bullshit, asshole.
Go back to Europe where you let your killers roam free to kill again and make excuses for their behavior.
You really are a nutter.
This is what you wrote:
they contact tdcj and get available dates and then the court picks one and sets it.
According to YOUR OWN WORDS, this means that they ask TDCJ for a date and then rubberstamp their choice, which is NOT what courts do. They TELL the TDCJ that on a date, an execution will be carried out after 6PM barring a stay.
I’ve referenced where my research comes from. You make broad-brushed assertions with no proof whatsoever.
QUOTE: I’m not interested in your bullshit, asshole.
The fact that you still complain about my writings, WHICH ARE BASED ON THE TEXAS PENAL CODE (which I have researched in writing the Wikipedia section on the execution procedure, and provided references therein) mean that you are. And you don’t even have the decency to use your name, or even a pseudonym.
According to your own words: YOU ARE A NUT.
And I’m not interested in your bullshit, asshole.
And now I have no decency.
For someone who has no interest in my “BS” (which is all backed by THE LAW) you spend a lot of time arguing against it.
And when did you ever have decency? You never showed it on this board.
You are right. He is a self indulgent asshole who thinks he knows everything and treats anyone that disagrees with him like shit.
What a loser.
Anonymous sucks sucks murderers dicks.
Fat, drunk, and stupid, is no way to go through life, son.
And mark, you’re still a whackjob and I have no interest in your bullshit. You sound more and more like a democrat.
They denied the writ and the petition. Happy to be wrong. I guess this is going forward.
Glad to hear that.
Unfortunately, ‘Bones’ and I won’t be available until much later to opine on his overdue demise.
Evil and darkness have been purged from the GREAT STATE OF TEXAS. This child murdering POS is Dead.
And good riddance.
I sure hope the sister of the murder victim is growing up alright after surviving his attack.
He’s DEAD, Jim!
Go Cowboys? WTF is that all about!
I presume if this had taken place in Tx then we’d be looking at the DP?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17540508
Doubtful, as he was 16 at the time he killed those two guys.
Unfortunately, the same people trying to abolish the DP are also working over time trying to abolish lwop and life sentences for minors.
Is LWOP over there really what it means or can they appeal after, say, 20/25 years?
LWOP means lwop. However, it doesn’t mean they can’t change the laws or the court make lwop for juveniles unconstitutional. They already have for some crimes that didn’t involve murder (the victim survived) but were horrendous never the less.
The remoseless piss of shit didnt even acknowledge his crime?? whoever had a child with that fucker??? Gee! His wife should have her head examined,,and the stupid mother who left her kids with a convicted child molester should be kicked in the ass…well, it’s good dimwits like Harnandez are no more stealing our oxygen and belong where the rest of his fellow maggots are! Good riddance..
I was on the jury that put this asshole to death. I will never forget this and the horrible pictures we saw at the trial. I hope he rots in hell.
well that was a very bad dayy. i have to go to therpy for all he has done to me.. btw. i was the little girl. i remember a little bit but not a lot.
Shut the f up all of yall yall can kiss thisans behind cuase yall dont even know the truth of what really happened cuase yall werent ther so kiss hias a** cuase yall r dumb ediots
So you’re saying that you were there? Then why didn’t you stop him from murdering that baby?
Everone who said and called this man wrong shut the hell up cuase ur asses need to live ur life and stay out of others buisness cuase yall arent perfect no one is so all of yall SHUT THE FU** UP u dint even know him are what really happen or went down . but i know hes in heaven now cuase he gave his life to the lord when the world ends lets see wher ur going for judgeing someone u dont even know yeah think about that before speaking yall ediots.
He’s not in heaven. Because the only way to get there is to confess your sins. And he didn’t. He went to the grave still denying responsibility for the murder of a 10-month old baby. Right now, he’s being raped by Satan’s demons.
And to u 123Methodman this GO COWBOYS MEANS HES A TRUE FAN JUST LIKE ME YOU STUPID WHAT IS TOUR NAME METHOD MAN CUASE U ON DRUGS