Isaac Creed Agee – White, age 30
Sentenced in Marion County, Oregon
By: a jury
Date of crime: February 2008
Victim: Antonio Barrantes-Vasquez, 36
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Agee and another inmate brutally beat the victim, also an inmate, to death in the victim’s cell. The prosecution laid out not only the graphic details of this murder but the criminal history that had landed Agee in prison with a 54 year sentence. The defense countered by arguing that Agee was “born broken” due to fetal alcohol syndrome and had never progressed past the mental age of 12. Agee was high on meth at the time of the murder.
Sources: Statesman J. (Salem, Or.) 5/14/11 C2 (2011 WLNR 9887628), Statesman J. (Salem, Or.) 5/25/11 (http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20110525/NEWS/105250427/Inmate-murderer-s-fate-rests-jury?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|News
By: a jury
Date of crime: February 2008
Victim: Antonio Barrantes-Vasquez, 36
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Agee and another inmate brutally beat the victim, also an inmate, to death in the victim’s cell. The prosecution laid out not only the graphic details of this murder but the criminal history that had landed Agee in prison with a 54 year sentence. The defense countered by arguing that Agee was “born broken” due to fetal alcohol syndrome and had never progressed past the mental age of 12. Agee was high on meth at the time of the murder.
Sources: Statesman J. (Salem, Or.) 5/14/11 C2 (2011 WLNR 9887628), Statesman J. (Salem, Or.) 5/25/11 (http://www.statesmanjournal.com/article/20110525/NEWS/105250427/Inmate-murderer-s-fate-rests-jury?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|News
Angela McAnulty – White, age 40
Sentenced in Lane County, Oregon
By: a jury
Date of crime: December 9, 2009
Victim: Jeanette Marie Maples, 15
Prosecution’s case/defense response: McAnulty tortured, starved, abused, and severely beat her oldest daughter for years until the victim finally died from a combination of malnutrition, bleeding in her brain from a head injury, and hundreds of other wounds infected to the bone. McAnulty pleaded guilty to aggravated murder. The defense attempted to introduce evidence to prove that McAnulty’s husband was exaggerating her role in the abuse to get a lesser charge. The defense also argued that the prosecution had not established that McAnulty would be a future threat to society, and McAnulty entered an allocution claiming she had no intent actually to kill her daughter. McAnulty also claimed mental damage from her childhood from her mother being stabbed to death when she was five and from her abusive father who also withheld food and beat her regularly.
Sources: Reg.-Guard (Eugene, OR) A1 2/17/11 (2011 WLNR 5249330), Reg.-Guard (Eugene, OR) B13 2/18/11 (2011 WLNR 52325238), Reg.-Guard (Eugene, OR) A1 2/24/11 (2011 WLNR 5639738), Reg.-Guard (Eugene, OR) A1 2/125/11 (2011 WLNR 5639776)
By: a jury
Date of crime: December 9, 2009
Victim: Jeanette Marie Maples, 15
Prosecution’s case/defense response: McAnulty tortured, starved, abused, and severely beat her oldest daughter for years until the victim finally died from a combination of malnutrition, bleeding in her brain from a head injury, and hundreds of other wounds infected to the bone. McAnulty pleaded guilty to aggravated murder. The defense attempted to introduce evidence to prove that McAnulty’s husband was exaggerating her role in the abuse to get a lesser charge. The defense also argued that the prosecution had not established that McAnulty would be a future threat to society, and McAnulty entered an allocution claiming she had no intent actually to kill her daughter. McAnulty also claimed mental damage from her childhood from her mother being stabbed to death when she was five and from her abusive father who also withheld food and beat her regularly.
Sources: Reg.-Guard (Eugene, OR) A1 2/17/11 (2011 WLNR 5249330), Reg.-Guard (Eugene, OR) B13 2/18/11 (2011 WLNR 52325238), Reg.-Guard (Eugene, OR) A1 2/24/11 (2011 WLNR 5639738), Reg.-Guard (Eugene, OR) A1 2/125/11 (2011 WLNR 5639776)
Bruce Turnidge – White, age 56 (see also Joshua Turnidge)
Sentenced in Marion County, Oregon
By: a jury
Date of crime: December 12, 2008
Victim: William Hakim, Tom Tennant
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Turnidge and his son planted a bomb in a bank in a plan to rob the bank killing two police officers attempting to disarm it and maiming a third officer. Prosecution argued that the death sentence was necessary due to Turnidge’s long held violent, anti-establishment views and that he would be revered in prison as a cop-killer allowing him an audience to further spread his views. The defense argued the bomb only went off due to mistakes on the part of the technician disarming it and argued that Turnidge’s granddaughter should not have to go through life without her grandparent. At the sentencing, Turnidge insisted authorities had framed him and that his defense team was ineffective. The jury noted a complete lack of remorse on the part of Turnidge.
Sources: AP Online Reg. – US 12/23/10, Portland Oregonian (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/6/11 (2011 WLNR 293353), Portland Oregonian (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/25/11 (2011 WLNR1499136)
By: a jury
Date of crime: December 12, 2008
Victim: William Hakim, Tom Tennant
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Turnidge and his son planted a bomb in a bank in a plan to rob the bank killing two police officers attempting to disarm it and maiming a third officer. Prosecution argued that the death sentence was necessary due to Turnidge’s long held violent, anti-establishment views and that he would be revered in prison as a cop-killer allowing him an audience to further spread his views. The defense argued the bomb only went off due to mistakes on the part of the technician disarming it and argued that Turnidge’s granddaughter should not have to go through life without her grandparent. At the sentencing, Turnidge insisted authorities had framed him and that his defense team was ineffective. The jury noted a complete lack of remorse on the part of Turnidge.
Sources: AP Online Reg. – US 12/23/10, Portland Oregonian (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/6/11 (2011 WLNR 293353), Portland Oregonian (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/25/11 (2011 WLNR1499136)
Joshua Turnidge – White, age 31 (see also Bruce Turnidge)
Sentenced in Marion County, Oregon
By: a jury
Date of crime: December 12, 2008
Victim: William Hakim, Tom Tennant
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Turnidge and his father planted a bomb in a bank in a plan to rob the bank killing two police officers attempting to disarm it and maiming a third officer. Prosecution argued that the death sentence was necessary due to Turnidge’s long held violent, anti-establishment views and that he would be revered in prison as a cop-killer allowing him an audience to further spread his views. The defense argued the bomb only went off due to mistakes on the part of the technician disarming it and that his daughter should not have to go through life without her father. The defense also argued that Turnidge was unaware of the bomb or the plan to plant it until his father admitted it was already in the bank. The jury noted a complete lack of remorse on the part of Turnidge and an almost flippancy regarding the crime and trial.
Sources: AP Online Reg. – US 12/23/10, Portland Oregonian (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/6/11 (2011 WLNR 293353), Portland Oregonian (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/25/11 (2011 WLNR1499136)
By: a jury
Date of crime: December 12, 2008
Victim: William Hakim, Tom Tennant
Prosecution’s case/defense response: Turnidge and his father planted a bomb in a bank in a plan to rob the bank killing two police officers attempting to disarm it and maiming a third officer. Prosecution argued that the death sentence was necessary due to Turnidge’s long held violent, anti-establishment views and that he would be revered in prison as a cop-killer allowing him an audience to further spread his views. The defense argued the bomb only went off due to mistakes on the part of the technician disarming it and that his daughter should not have to go through life without her father. The defense also argued that Turnidge was unaware of the bomb or the plan to plant it until his father admitted it was already in the bank. The jury noted a complete lack of remorse on the part of Turnidge and an almost flippancy regarding the crime and trial.
Sources: AP Online Reg. – US 12/23/10, Portland Oregonian (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/6/11 (2011 WLNR 293353), Portland Oregonian (Pg. Unavail. Online) 1/25/11 (2011 WLNR1499136)