Texas Execution Information Center

Execution Report: Bruce Jacobs

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A jury convicted Jacobs of capital murder in June 1987 and sentenced him to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence in March 1994. All of his subsequent appeals in state and federal court were denied.

"I'm going to get executed for something I didn't do," Jacobs said in an interview from death row. Jacobs admitted to breaking into the Harrises' house the morning that Conrad was murdered, but he said that a second, unknown intruder was responsible for the killing. "Somebody jumped me from behind ... I left and went home. I didn't know there was a murder until three days later."

Jacobs' lawyer claimed that his client was mentally ill and had a subnormal IQ, but he could not prove that he was mentally retarded.

At his execution, Jacobs recited Psalm 23. He then expressed love and thanks to his friends. "I want to thank the media for being nice to me all this time," he also said. He was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m.

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By David Carson. Posted on 19 May 2003. Edited on 16 September 2015.
Sources: Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Attorney General's Office, Associated Press.

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