HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Nine-year-old Terrell Bogany hit the floor and covered his head. The first time he took the action he managed to avoid a likely fatal blast of gunfire from his enraged father, Gerald Cornelius Eldridge. The second time came in a Houston courtroom. It was a re-enactment for jurors considering capital murder charges against his father for the shooting spree that wounded him and left his sister and mother dead. On Tuesday, the 45-year-old Eldridge was set for lethal injection for the slayings almost 17 years ago. He’d be the first of three condemned inmates scheduled to die on consecutive evenings this week in Texas. Attorneys are contending Eldridge is mentally ill and incompetent to be executed.
