He kidnapped, molested, and strangled to death his 12-year old stepdaughter in 2002.
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http://www.wwltv.com/home/Bordelons-execution-would-Louisianas-first-since-2002-80795962.htmlWarden says Bordelon, who will be La.'s first execution since '02, is ready to die
ANGOLA, La. -- Angola Warden Burl Cain said Wednesday, convicted killer Gerald Bordelon is ready to die.
Thursday evening, Bordelon is scheduled to become the first Louisiana man executed in more than seven years.
Unless a last minute stay of execution comes, Bordelon will be given a lethal injection of three chemicals sometime between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. Thursday. Four and a half to five minutes after the injection, according to Cain, Bordelon will be dead.
"There's no question that Gerald Bordelon is a predator," said Livingston Parish District Attorney Scott Perrilloux. Perrilloux's office prosecuted Bordelon in 2006. "He preys upon women. He's violent with women. He has conceded that since he's been convicted, and there's probably other victims out there that we'll never know about unless he tells us something about them between now and Thursday."
A Livingston Parish jury convicted Bordelon of the November 2002 rape and murder of 12-year-old Courtney LeBlanc, his step-daughter.
Three times previously, Bordelon had been convicted of abducting and raping women. He had spent much of his life in prison.
At the time of his sentencing, Bordelon admitted to the crime, and asked to be executed.
"It's just tragic," Livingston Parish Sheriff Willie Graves said Wednesday. "It's so senseless. Most homicides are, but this certainly was senseless. I hate it for the family, but in the next couple days, I think justice will be done and Courtney can rest in some semblance of peace."
Bordelon is the first death row inmate to ask to waive his rights to appeal, then be ruled competent. The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled, he would waive those rights.
"I think the Supreme Court hit it right on the money," Perrilloux added.
At the time of his sentencing, Gerald Bordelon said he wanted to be executed to spare the victim's family and his family any more grief. He said, if given the opportunity, he would commit the same crime again, which is why he wanted his appeals waived.
Angola Warden Burl Cain met with Bordelon Wednesday morning and said, Bordelon has not changed his mind.
"It's almost like, he did a horrible, horrible thing and he wants to pay for it," Cain said.
"For whatever it's worth, I appreciate his honesty," Graves said. "That he recognizes that he can't come back and undo what he's done, but at least he's prepared to do what he has to do to make sure it doesn't happen again."
That means a lethal injection, unless a last-minute call comes to stop it.
"We'll be on guard for that to happen," Cain said. "If it doesn't happen, it doesn't. If it does, it will. In my past experience with the other six executions, two of them got those stays at the very last minute. One of them 20 minutes before."
The difference this time, the man being put to death isn't asking for a stay of execution.
"Gerald Bordelon has been in trouble his entire life," Perrilloux concluded. "In some ways, it'll be a fitting end Thursday evening."
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