Tyrone N. Butts
APE Reporter
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Man gets life for killing boy, 4
Photo at link confirms negritude in the first degree.
With tears flowing, Deyasha Johnson said her 4-year-old son can rest in peace after a jury took just 35 minutes Tuesday to convict her former boyfriend of beating the child to death.
Darius Eubanks, 23, was convicted of capital murder in the November 2003 death of Daviyon Johnson.
Hinds County Circuit Judge Tomie T. Green sentenced Eubanks to life in prison without parole.
He showed no emotion as the verdict and sentence were announced.
"Instead of a protector, you were a terrorist," Green told Eubanks minutes after sentencing him in the one-day trial. &qu
ot;Nobody will know what young Mr. Johnson might have been."
Eubanks, who is not the chi
ld's father, beat Daviyon to death with a stick after the child and his 2-year-old sister reportedly soiled their clothes.
Daviyon suffered severe head injuries, broken ribs and numerous internal injuries, the coroner said.
In closing arguments, District Attorney Faye Peterson said Daviyon's brain was mush after being beaten in the head so many times.
Peterson said the death penalty was not sought because of the difficulty in getting a death penalty case scheduled and concerns about providing Eubanks with a speedy trial.
No witnesses testified for the defense.
Eubanks' attorney, Assistant Public Defender Michael Knapp, said there was a reason for the tactic, but he would not reveal it. As a convicted capital murderer, Eubanks is automatically entitled to an appeal.
In closing arguments, Knapp said the
state didn't prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
He suggested the 2-year-old may have caused her brother's injuries.
Johnson, who
now lives in Atlanta, testified she had left Daviyon and his sister, Inecia, with Eubanks while she visited her grandmother in the hospital.
But when Johnson returned, she said Daviyon was lying motionless on the floor and her daughter was scared and standing by a wall.
Not knowing the condition of her son, "I said, 'Daviyon get your booty up.' "
But her son didn't move, Johnson said.
"And the whole side of his face was black and blue," she testified.
Johnson testified her daughter said Eubanks hit Daviyon in the head with a stick when the boy started crying.
Johnson also testified her daughter said Daviyon stopped crying and didn't move again.
The girl also said Eubanks hit her, Johnson testified.
Daviyon died at the Unive
rsity of Mississippi Medical Center's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit two days after he was injured. Inecia also was hospitalized with injuries.
Police recovered from the apartment a 2-foot stick believed used in the beating.
Johnson said the board had be
en used to secure a patio door in the apartment before the lock was repaired.
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Considering it's niggers, that could well have happened!
T.N.B.
Man gets life for killing boy, 4
Photo at link confirms negritude in the first degree.
With tears flowing, Deyasha Johnson said her 4-year-old son can rest in peace after a jury took just 35 minutes Tuesday to convict her former boyfriend of beating the child to death.
Darius Eubanks, 23, was convicted of capital murder in the November 2003 death of Daviyon Johnson.
Hinds County Circuit Judge Tomie T. Green sentenced Eubanks to life in prison without parole.
He showed no emotion as the verdict and sentence were announced.
"Instead of a protector, you were a terrorist," Green told Eubanks minutes after sentencing him in the one-day trial. &qu
ot;Nobody will know what young Mr. Johnson might have been."
Eubanks, who is not the chi
ld's father, beat Daviyon to death with a stick after the child and his 2-year-old sister reportedly soiled their clothes.
Daviyon suffered severe head injuries, broken ribs and numerous internal injuries, the coroner said.
In closing arguments, District Attorney Faye Peterson said Daviyon's brain was mush after being beaten in the head so many times.
Peterson said the death penalty was not sought because of the difficulty in getting a death penalty case scheduled and concerns about providing Eubanks with a speedy trial.
No witnesses testified for the defense.
Eubanks' attorney, Assistant Public Defender Michael Knapp, said there was a reason for the tactic, but he would not reveal it. As a convicted capital murderer, Eubanks is automatically entitled to an appeal.
In closing arguments, Knapp said the
state didn't prove the case beyond a reasonable doubt.
He suggested the 2-year-old may have caused her brother's injuries.
Johnson, who
now lives in Atlanta, testified she had left Daviyon and his sister, Inecia, with Eubanks while she visited her grandmother in the hospital.
But when Johnson returned, she said Daviyon was lying motionless on the floor and her daughter was scared and standing by a wall.
Not knowing the condition of her son, "I said, 'Daviyon get your booty up.' "
But her son didn't move, Johnson said.
"And the whole side of his face was black and blue," she testified.
Johnson testified her daughter said Eubanks hit Daviyon in the head with a stick when the boy started crying.
Johnson also testified her daughter said Daviyon stopped crying and didn't move again.
The girl also said Eubanks hit her, Johnson testified.
Daviyon died at the Unive
rsity of Mississippi Medical Center's Pediatric Intensive Care Unit two days after he was injured. Inecia also was hospitalized with injuries.
Police recovered from the apartment a 2-foot stick believed used in the beating.
Johnson said the board had be
en used to secure a patio door in the apartment before the lock was repaired.
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Considering it's niggers, that could well have happened!
T.N.B.
