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WAXAHACHIE – On Oct. 29 in the 40th Judicial District Court of Ellis County, Woodrow Stevenson Head Jr., 33, from Purvis, Miss., accepted a sentence of 58 years in prison for the offense of murder.
On Aug. 21, 2019, Head was indicted for capital murder for the death of James Morris on June 15, 2019, in Midlothian,.
Head agreed to plead guilty to the charge of murder, and accepted the sentence of 58 years as part of a plea bargain agreement with the State of Texas.
Head brutally killed Morris with a knife while Morris was driving the pair to Walmart in Morris’s truck.
After Head was sentenced by Judge Bob Carroll, Morris’s step daughter read the family’s victim impact statement.
She described Mr. Morris as the man who would give someone the shirt off their back, and she described the impact of the loss of her dad.
She said, “58 years may seem like a lifetime but the real lifetime is everything we lost.”
After the hearing, Assistant County & District Attorney Grace Pandithurai issued the following statement:
“We are glad that this agreement allows Mr. Morris’s family to close this traumatic chapter of their lives without the anxiety and uncertainty of a trial.
“This agreement was made with their full support.
“Even if Head were sentenced to life in prison for murder, he would still be eligible for parole consideration after 30 years.
“With this agreement, he is not eligible for parole consideration for 29 years. In my experience, the vicious nature of his crime makes it unlikely that he would be paroled at that time.
“I also want to thank the Midlothian Police Department for their work in investigating this heinous crime.”
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