Texas death row inmate captured in Louisiana

A death row inmate who slipped out of a Texas jail wearing street clothes was captured Sunday in Shreveport, La., the U.S. Marshals Service said.

Marianne Matus, a Marshals spokeswoman in Houston, confirmed Sunday night that convicted killer Charles Victor Thompson was in custody.

No details about how authorities found him were immediately released, but Matus had said earlier in the day that they had received valuable tips about his possible whereabouts. A $10,000 reward had been offered for information leading to his capture.

Thompson, 35, had been convicted in 1999 for the shooting deaths a year earlier of his ex-girlfriend, Dennise Hayslip and her new boyfriend, Darren Keith Cain. An appeals court threw out his sentence, but on Oct. 28, another jury sentenced him to death.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051107/ap_on_re_us/death_row_escape&printer=1

with a bicycle nearby. WTF???? Sounds like he might be a long lost member of the bush family!!

BTW, how can he win his appeal but still get a death sentence? Sounds like double jeopardy to me.

Was he trying to demonstrate his "racial superiority" by getting drunk off his ass at the very moment when he most desperately needed to keep his wits about him?

:eyes:

Racists tend to be pretty stupid.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9922969/