Jeffery Doughtie was sentenced to death in Texas for the deaths of Jerry Lee Dean, 80, and Sylvia Dean, 76, in Corpus Christi on August 2, 1993. He was 39 when he was executed in Huntsville on August 16, 2001, eight years after the deaths.
Jerry Lee Dean was 80 and Sylvia Dean was 76 at the time of their deaths in Corpus Christi, in Nueces County. Doughtie had known them for years before August 1993. The Texas corrections department lists Nueces County as the county of conviction.
He was 39 at his execution. His date of birth, early life, arrest, trial, the exact name of the offense of which he was convicted and his appeals are not on record. He received a sentence of death.
Doughtie spent about eight years under sentence of death. He was executed in Huntsville on Thursday, August 16, 2001. He was the twelfth person executed in Texas in 2001, and his is entry 251 on the corrections department's list of executed offenders.
Executions in Texas are carried out in Huntsville under the state's corrections department, which keeps a public list of executed offenders with the county of conviction, race and age of each.
No court finding beyond the sentence of death has been set out, and no other deaths are attributed to him.
August 2, 1993: Jerry Lee Dean, 80, and Sylvia Dean, 76, die in Corpus Christi.
Date not on record: Doughtie is convicted in Nueces County and sentenced to death.
August 16, 2001: Doughtie is executed in Huntsville, aged 39.