Alfred a trucker who was sentenced to death in 2004 after he was convicted of murdering his 2 year old daughter,
At his trial, eight people who knew Mr. Bourgeois, including family members, said they had been threatened or assaulted by him.
Alfred Bourgeois, 55, who tortured and killed his daughter.
Mr. Bourgeois, a trucker from La Place, La., was sentenced to death in 2004 after he was convicted of murdering his 2-year-old daughter at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, making it a federal crime.
At his trial, eight people who knew Mr. Bourgeois, including family members, said they had been threatened or assaulted by him, according to The Plainview Daily Herald in Texas.
They said he had tortured and repeatedly beaten his daughter, referred to as “JG” in court documents, in the months before killing her in June 2002.
“Bourgeois preyed on an innocent child — one of the most vulnerable among us,” Ryan K. Patrick, the United States attorney for the Southern District of Texas, said in a statement on Thursday.
“She should have been protected and loved, but was instead robbed of her young life after being brutalized by her very own.”
Of the five men whom the Justice Department said it wanted to execute, Mr. Bourgeois is the only one who is black, even though the federal death row is composed of a disproportionate number of black men, adding to criticism that jurors disproportionately favor the death penalty for black defendants.
The Justice Department is seeking to execute Mr. Bourgeois on Jan. 13.
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