00:00What God was thinking when this guy was created, I don't know.
00:04Maybe God decided to punch out for the day, took a personal day.
00:07I don't know.
00:08But this, not even a monster, that's unfair to monsters.
00:12If there was ever a reason to punch someone's lights out permanently, it is this case.
00:19On November 30th, Athena Strand is reported missing.
00:23He is delivering a box of Barbie dolls to Athena.
00:28And that box is called, You Can Be Anything.
00:33He comes back.
00:35He brings Athena to the back of his truck.
00:37He picks her up.
00:38He puts her into the van.
00:40She says to him, are you a kidnapper?
00:43At first, he tells her to be quiet or he will hurt her.
00:46At some point, and here is probably checkbox number two, why he is going to be strapped to a gurney
00:53and a needle stuck in his arm.
00:55You are very pretty.
00:58That's what this man says to this seven-year-old child before he tells her to take her shirt off.
01:06We have proof that she was sexually assaulted and he killed her.
01:11Blunt force trauma, suffocation.
01:14And as the expert testified during the penalty phase, she suffered.
01:19In Texas, the prosecution has to establish what we call special issues.
01:26The primary special issue is that you are going to continue to be a danger to the rest of us.
01:36And in the penalty phase, not only is the prosecution permitted to describe in grotesque detail.
01:44The horrific nature of the criminal offense conduct, the prosecution is also allowed to bring in other instances.
01:52In the penalty phase, the prosecution, as they did, brought in proof that this monster has raped at least one
02:01other woman.
02:03So the prosecution establishes that he is a continuing danger.
02:09And the prosecution is going to be able to show, or shall I say, the defense will not be able
02:16to show what we call any mitigation.
02:19In other words, something good about this defendant or something where it would be unfair to execute him, such as
02:27mental disease.
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