Texas Department of Criminal Justice

June 8,2015

The Honorable Kelly Ashmore

Grayson County District Clerk

100 W. Houston

Sherman, Texas 75090

Brad Livingston

Executive Director

RE: LESTER LEROY BOWER, JR. TDCJ #764

Dear District Clerk:

Enclosed is theReturn of theDirector of theTexas Department of Criminal Justice Correctional

Institutions Division, of the Death Warrant pertaining to LESTER LEROY BOWER, JR.,

issued in the District Court of Grayson County 15th Judicial District ofTexas, on March 25,

2015, which was carried out on June 3,2015. Also enclosed is theCertificate withthe director's

statement of compliance with the command of the warrant. The certificate also indicates the

disposition ofthe remains asrequired byArticle 43.23 of theTexas Code ofCriminal Procedure.

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RETURN OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Came to hand, the 10th day of May, 1984 and executed the 3rd day of

June, 2015 by the death of LESTER LEROY BOWER, JR.

DISPOSITION OF BODY:

DATE: CV,^^ ^^OlS

TIME: 1p '» SCg> p/w

William Stephens, Director

Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Correctional Institutions Division
CERTIFICATE

I hereby certify that the Death Warrant in the case of The State ofTexas vs. LESTER LEROY

BOWER, JR. issued in the District Court of Grayson County 15th Judicial District of Texas, on

March 25,2015 and was executed according to the laws ofthe State ofTexas on June 3,2015. The

deathofLESTERLEROY BOWER,JR. was causedbyintravenousinjectionoflethalsubstances

at the Huntsville Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Correctional Institutions

Division at In': 3la p.m. on June 3,2015. The body ofthe deceased was given into the custody

ofCarnes Funeral Home agent for the requesting relative. This Certificate and Return ofWarrant

(enclosed) is in compliance with Article 43.23 ofthe Texas Code ofCriminal Procedure.

William StepAdns, Director

Texas Department ofCriminal Justice

Correctional Institutions Division

SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE MEthis the 3rd dayofMay 2015.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF GRAYSON COUNTY

15th JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF TEXAS

THE STATE OF TEXAS

033426, 033427, 033428 & 033429

LESTER LEROY BOWER, JR.

ORDER SETTING EXECUTION

This Court, having received the order denying habeas corpus relief in the above

styled and numbered cause and the order denying writ of certiorarifrom the Supreme

Court of the United States, and the Defendant, LESTER LEROY BOWER, JR., having

been sentenced to death in the presence ofDefendant's attorneys, and on the 7th day

of May, 1984, in Cause Numbers 033426, 033427, 033428 and 033429 in the 15th

District Court of GraysonCounty, Texas in accordance with the findings of the jury and

the judgment in said cause adjudging said defendant guilty of capital murder; and the

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in cause numbers AP-69,333, AP-69, 334, AP-69,335

and AP-69,336 having affirmed said conviction with the mandates being returned to

said 15th District Court on June 8, 1989; and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in

cause numbers AP-70,995, AP-70,996, AP-70,997 and AP-70,998 having denied

habeas corpus relief with themandates being returned to said 15th District Court on

February 14, 1992; and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in cause numbers WR21,005-2, WR-21,005-3, WR-21,005-4 and WR-21,005-5 having denied habeas co^s/%

relief June 11, 2014; and the Supreme Court of the United States having de^e^ypt-of--..^ ^

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certiorari in cause number 14-292 on May 23, 2015, with the stay of execution

terminating automitically; and there being no other stays of execution in effect on this

case, the court now enters the following ORDER:

IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the defendant, LESTER LEROY BOWER, JR.,

who has been adjudged to be guilty of capital murder as charged in the indictment and

whose punishment has been assessed by the verdict ofthe jury and judgment ofthe

Court at Death, shall be kept in custody bythe Director of the Texas Department of

Criminal Justice -- Institutional Division, at Huntsville, Texas, until the 3rd day ofJune,

2015, uponwhich day, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional

Division, at some hour after 6:00 p.m., in a room arranged for the purpose of execution,

the said Director, acting byand through the executioner designated bysaid Director as

provided by law, is hereby commanded, ordered and directed to carry out this sentence

ofdeath by intravenous injection ofa substance or substances in a lethal quantity

sufficient to cause the death of the said LESTER LEROY BOWER, JR. and until the

said LESTER LEROY BOWER, JR. is dead, such procedure to be determined and

supervised by the said Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice --

Institutional Division.

TheClerk of this Court shall issue and deliver to the Sheriff of GraysonCounty,

Texas, a Death Warrant in accordance with this Order, directed to the Director of the

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional Division, at Huntsville, Texas,

commanding him, the said Director, to put into execution the Judgement of Death

against the said LESTER LEROY BOWER, JR..

The Sheriff of Grayson County, Texas is hereby ordered, upon said rec$gffi^Z.?0oJ'%

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said Death Warrant, to deliver said Death Warrant to the Director of the Texas

Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional Division, Huntsville, Texas.

SIGNED AND ENTERED this ^ S~ day of M& <? c ((

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JUDGE PRESIDING

15th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

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DEATH WARRANT

THE STATE OF TEXAS

TO THE DIRECTOR OF THE TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE,

INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION, AND TO THE SHERIFF OF GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS:

WHEREAS on the 7TM day of May, 1984, the defendant, LESTER LEROY

BOWER, JR., was duly sentenced to death in Cause Numbers 033426, 033427,

033428 and 033429 in the 15th District Court of Grayson County, Texas in accordance

with the findings of the jury and the judgment in said cause adjudging said defendant

guilty of capital murder; and

WHEREAS the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in cause numbers AP-69,333,

AP-69, 334, AP-69,335 and AP-69,336 affirmed said conviction with the mandates

being returned to said 15th District Court on June 8, 1989; and

WHEREAS the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in cause numbers AP-70,995,

AP-70,996, AP-70,997 and AP-70,998 denied habeas corpus relief with the mandates

being returned to said 15th District Court on February 14, 1992;

WHEREAS the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals in cause numbers WR-21,005-

2, WR-21,005-3, WR-21,005-4 and WR-21,005-5 denied habeas corpus relief on June

11, 2014; and

WHEREAS the Supreme Court of the United States has denied writ of certiorari

on March 23, 2015 and lifting the stay of execution granted on February 5, 2015; NOW

THEREFORE

The Sheriff of Grayson County, Texas is hereby commanded to deliver this

warrant to the director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice — Institutional
Division, for the purpose of executing this warrant; and

The Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional Division,

at Huntsville, Texas, is hereby commanded to execute the said sentence of death at the

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional Division, at any time after the hour

Of 6:00 p.m. on the 3rd day of JUNE, 2015, by causing a substance or substances in a

lethal quantityto be intravenously injected into the body of the defendant, LESTER -

LEROY BOWER, JR., sufficient to cause death, and until the defendant is dead,

obeying all laws of the State of Texas with reference to such execution.

The Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Institutional Division,

shall make due return on this warrant to the Clerk of this Court. This sentence was

passed as provided by law.

WITNESS MY HAND AND SEAL ofthe 15th District Court ofGrayson, County,

Texas, as my office in the City of Sherman, Texas, this the ££& of

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OFFICER'S RETURN

The Sheriff of Grayson County, Texas received this writ oh the J*£A day of

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the same by delivering two copies of this warrant to the Director df the Correctional

Institutiohs Division dfthe Texas Department of CriminalJustice oh the \' of

•2®i* and by taking his; receipt tor thisyvarram which is

hereto attached, dd here and how make my return on this writ this JL_day of ftb^

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RETURN OF DIRECTOR

TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE - INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION

Came to hand the r* day

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,and said Death Warrant parried out by executing said defendant, LESTER

LEROY BOWER, JR., on the / ^~ day of. - 20J2_,

DIRECTOR,{JEXAS DEPARTMENT OF

CRIMINAL JUSTICE -rdNSTiTUTIO DIVIS,0N Z^cMmA