NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
A man is scheduled to be executed this evening for the murder of his ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old son over 17 years ago.
Stephen Barbee, 55, will be executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit, which houses Texas’s death row.
Barbee was convicted for the murders of Lisa Underwood, 34, and Jayden Underwood, 7, in 2005. The mother and son were suffocated in their home in Fort Worth, then buried about 40 miles away in Denton County.
Prosecutors argued that Barbee, who was married to another woman, killed Underwood because she was 7 months pregnant. Barbee presumed he was the father, but later DNA testing revealed he was not.