I was looking at that last meals thread and the link to the texas death row site. Read about what this woman did and tell me if you think she should be killed:
http://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/statistics/deathrow/drowlist/hendrson.jpg
Not enough info here – was her claim that it was accidental ever substantiated? What crime was she actually charged with and convicted of? 1st Degree Murder? 2nd Degree?
The start of the report says “abduction and murder”. Abduction would seem to contradict accidental dropping.
Nobody should be on death row.
I agree, justice should be immediate…
Like fishcheer15, I’m against the death penalty.
If you could post more information about the case, I might have an opinion about a conviction for murder.
God does not appear to work like that. 
Oh for chrissakes, people… I believe the point of the OP was should she be on death row for the “accidental dropping”. Regardless of one’s personal views on the death penalty per se, I would have to say that an accidental dropping, if it were truly that, would qualify under a manslaughter charge, not murder – and I don’t think such a charge even qualifies for death penalty consideration.
I’m not an attorney – maybe somebody else knows this… What convictions do qualify for a possible sentence of execution? Obviously 1st degree murder. I don’t know which others.
But if she’s on death row, that would indicate that she was charged with and convicted of something more serious, and that the jury did not believe the “accidental” claim. I don’t think the posted link gives enough info to make a judgement.
A second, here. She should be long dead by now.
As for the “blurb” on the sheet, it is a 1 paragraph synopsis of the case. I’m confident the fine folks in Texas heard enough evidence in the trial to put her where she is justifyably.
How is Rap like Porn? Both are better with the sound turned off.
All the other cases have quite convincing summaries. That’s why this one stood out and I posted it here.
This is from a story that ran in the Houston Chronicle in 1997. Sorry I couldn’t find something longer:
Baugh’s baby sitter, Cathy Lynn Henderson , was convicted in 1995 of shattering the base of Baugh’s skull by slamming him into a flat surface at her home in the Austin suburb of Pflugerville. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the capital murder conviction this month, and Henderson is awaiting execution.
“The bottom line is that there have been these very prominent cases in which caregivers might have been screened out had a background check been run on them,” said Stewart Davis, spokesman for the Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services.
Henderson 's records would have revealed that she had lost custody of two of her own daughters after judges reviewed and substantiated allegations of child abuse.
Ms. Henderson was convicted for the 1994 murder of 3-month-old Brandon Baugh, an infant she was babysitting. The child’s body was found in a wine cooler carton, buried him in a rural field. Ms. Henderson left Texas for Missouri after the death of the infant, and was arrested there and returned to Texas for trial.
An autospy revealed that the base of the child’s skull had been shattered. Ms. Henderson claimed at trial that the shild slipped out of her arms and fell; the medical examiner testified that the injuries were too severe to have been caused by a fall. Ms. Henderson testified that she panicked aftre the accident, buried the child, and fled, because she thought no one would believe her.
FBI agents testified that she gave several different accounts of the incident before trial.
One issue on appeal was the use of several maps that Henderson apparently drew for her attorneys, showing the location of the buried child. Henderon claimed on appeal that her attorneys were ordered to turn over these maps; the appeals court ruled that since they were never admitted as evidence or referenced in the trial, they were not grounds for reversal.
- Rick
Fair enough then, going on the medical evidence it would appear there was more to it than a fall.