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Thomas Bartlett Whitaker (born December 31, 1979) is an American man convicted under the Texas Law of Parties of murdering two family members as a 24-year-old. Whitaker was convicted for the December 10, 2003, murders of his mother and 19-year-old brother; he was sentenced to death in March 2007. He spent years on death row at the Polunsky Unit near Livingston, Texas, before the commutation of his sentence. On February 22, 2018, about 40 minutes before his scheduled 6:00 P.M. execution, Whitaker had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment without parole by Governor Greg Abbott, the first such commutation by Abbott and the first in the state since 2007. As of September 2021, Whitaker resided in the McConnell Unit in Beeville, Texas. (en) |
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Rudy Rios, Bart (en) |
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Father - Kent; Mother - Patricia (en) |
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that serious issues arose from past sourcing of purported facts from convict's blog and father's book ; article needs further reliable sources, checking for bias and for accuracy of content to sources (en) |
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no (en) |
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(en) Patricia Whitaker (en) Kent Whitaker (en) Kevin Whitaker (en) |
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Thomas Bartlett Whitaker (born December 31, 1979) is an American man convicted under the Texas Law of Parties of murdering two family members as a 24-year-old. Whitaker was convicted for the December 10, 2003, murders of his mother and 19-year-old brother; he was sentenced to death in March 2007. He spent years on death row at the Polunsky Unit near Livingston, Texas, before the commutation of his sentence. On February 22, 2018, about 40 minutes before his scheduled 6:00 P.M. execution, Whitaker had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment without parole by Governor Greg Abbott, the first such commutation by Abbott and the first in the state since 2007. As of September 2021, Whitaker resided in the McConnell Unit in Beeville, Texas. (en) |
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