Executed By TDCJ #332 since 1982
On August 5, 1990, he attacked and murdered 70-year-old Jesse Fields.
From the attack by Morris, Fields suffered severe head injuries and irreparable brain damage. He remained in a vegetative state in a hospital and developed pneumonia and gangrene requiring amputation of a leg.
Fields died on May 11, 1991, a day after the amputation. Doctors attributed Fields’ death to the head injuries, with pneumonia and the amputation listed as contributing factors. Fields was 71 at the time of death.
∼Convicted in the August 1990 murder of 71-year-old Jesse Fields. Morris and an accomplice broke into Fields’ Houston home and stabbed him with a butcher’s knife before demanding money. In an effort to defend himself, Fields grabbed a hammer, but was struck repeatedly with it after Morris took it away from him. Fields was in a coma for eight months before he died. Morris was charged in the killing following his arrest for the March 1991 robbery of a washeteria where a clerk was shot twice.
Last Statement:
This offender declined to make a last statement.
Cause of Death: Executed by Lethal Injection in the State of Texas.
On August 5, 1990, he attacked and murdered 70-year-old Jesse Fields.
From the attack by Morris, Fields suffered severe head injuries and irreparable brain damage. He remained in a vegetative state in a hospital and developed pneumonia and gangrene requiring amputation of a leg.
Fields died on May 11, 1991, a day after the amputation. Doctors attributed Fields’ death to the head injuries, with pneumonia and the amputation listed as contributing factors. Fields was 71 at the time of death.
∼Convicted in the August 1990 murder of 71-year-old Jesse Fields. Morris and an accomplice broke into Fields’ Houston home and stabbed him with a butcher’s knife before demanding money. In an effort to defend himself, Fields grabbed a hammer, but was struck repeatedly with it after Morris took it away from him. Fields was in a coma for eight months before he died. Morris was charged in the killing following his arrest for the March 1991 robbery of a washeteria where a clerk was shot twice.
Last Statement:
This offender declined to make a last statement.
Cause of Death: Executed by Lethal Injection in the State of Texas.
Executed By TDCJ #332 since 1982
On August 5, 1990, he attacked and murdered 70-year-old Jesse Fields.
From the attack by Morris, Fields suffered severe head injuries and irreparable brain damage. He remained in a vegetative state in a hospital and developed pneumonia and gangrene requiring amputation of a leg.
Fields died on May 11, 1991, a day after the amputation. Doctors attributed Fields’ death to the head injuries, with pneumonia and the amputation listed as contributing factors. Fields was 71 at the time of death.
∼Convicted in the August 1990 murder of 71-year-old Jesse Fields. Morris and an accomplice broke into Fields’ Houston home and stabbed him with a butcher’s knife before demanding money. In an effort to defend himself, Fields grabbed a hammer, but was struck repeatedly with it after Morris took it away from him. Fields was in a coma for eight months before he died. Morris was charged in the killing following his arrest for the March 1991 robbery of a washeteria where a clerk was shot twice.
Last Statement:
This offender declined to make a last statement.
Cause of Death: Executed by Lethal Injection in the State of Texas.
On August 5, 1990, he attacked and murdered 70-year-old Jesse Fields.
From the attack by Morris, Fields suffered severe head injuries and irreparable brain damage. He remained in a vegetative state in a hospital and developed pneumonia and gangrene requiring amputation of a leg.
Fields died on May 11, 1991, a day after the amputation. Doctors attributed Fields’ death to the head injuries, with pneumonia and the amputation listed as contributing factors. Fields was 71 at the time of death.
∼Convicted in the August 1990 murder of 71-year-old Jesse Fields. Morris and an accomplice broke into Fields’ Houston home and stabbed him with a butcher’s knife before demanding money. In an effort to defend himself, Fields grabbed a hammer, but was struck repeatedly with it after Morris took it away from him. Fields was in a coma for eight months before he died. Morris was charged in the killing following his arrest for the March 1991 robbery of a washeteria where a clerk was shot twice.
Last Statement:
This offender declined to make a last statement.
Cause of Death: Executed by Lethal Injection in the State of Texas.
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