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 ofCriminal Justice Correctional 

### Institutions Division, ofthe Death Warrant pertaining to LESTER LEROY BOWER, JR., 

### issued in the District Court ofGrayson County 15th Judicial District ofTexas, on March 25, 2015, which was carried out on June 3,2015. Also enclosed is the Certificate withthe director's statement of compliance with the command of the warrant. The certificate also indicates the 

### disposition oftheremains asrequired byArticle 43.23 of theTexas Code ofCriminal Procedure. Sincerely, 

# Caddin i4ju?&* CarlaM. Willis Deputy General Counsel OFFICE OF THE GENERAL COUNSEL 

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## Louise Pearson, Clerk, Courtof Criminal Appeals JUN L ° KellyEnloe, Chairman, Classification & Records, TDCJ 

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• Our mission is toprovidepublicsafety, promotepositive change in offender behavior, reintegrate offenders into society, and assist victims of crime. Office ofthe General Counsel Sharon Felfe Howell, General Counsel
- sharon.howeII@tdcj.texas.gov P.O. Box 13084 Capitol Station pQ Box 4004 Austin, Texas 78711-3084 Huntsville, Texas 77342-4004RETURN OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION TEXAS DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE



### Came to hand, the 10th day ofMay, 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 DivisionCERTIFICATE I hereby certify that the Death Warrant in the case of The State ofTexas vs. LESTERLEROY 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 causedbyintravenous injectionoflethalsubstances at the Huntsville Unit of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Correctional Institutions 

### Division at In': 3la p.m. onJune 3,2015. The bodyofthe 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 the3rd dayofMay 2015.
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### \tot»ty "without Bond ***** NOTARY PUBLIC, Walker County, Texas My Commission expires: \\- Q{e?~2jQ\ "7IN 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 the7th day 

### ofMay, 1984, in Cause Numbers 033426, 033427, 033428 and 033429 in the 15th District Court of Grayson County, Texas in accordance with the findings of thejury and thejudgment in said cause adjudging said defendant guilty of capital murder; and the Texas Court ofCriminal 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 reliefwith the mandates being returned to said 15th District Court on February 14, 1992; and the Texas Court ofCriminal Appeals in cause numbers WR

## 21,005-2, WR-21,005-3, WR-21,005-4 and WR-21,005-5 having denied habeas co^s/% reliefJune 11, 2014; and the Supreme Court ofthe United States having de^e^ypt-of--..^ ^

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### ''''''''tiiimmv!^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 ofcapital murder as charged in the indictment and 

### whose punishment has been assessed by the verdict ofthejury andjudgment ofthe Court at Death, shall be keptin 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 ofCriminal Justice
- Institutional 

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

### 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. 

### The Clerk of this Court shall issue and deliver to the Sheriffof Grayson County, 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 SheriffofGrayson County, Texas is hereby ordered, upon said rec$gffi^Z.?0oJ'% 

# sfr£> <^ysaid 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 (( 20 / ^ .

ION7 JtM FALLON, JUDGE PRESIDING 15th JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT GRAYSON COUNTY, TEXAS

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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 ofthe 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

— InstitutionalDivision, 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 ofCriminal Justice - Institutional Division, at any time after the hour Of 6:00 p.m. on the 3rd day ofJUNE, 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 ofthe Texas Department of Criminal Justice
- Institutional Division, shall make due return on this warrant to the Clerk ofthis Court. This sentence was passed as provided by law. 

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

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- INSTITUTIONAL DIVISION Came to hand the r* day 

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

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