Around this time, he began creating problems of an unknown nature, and was sent to live with his mother in Lafayette.ĭalton began skipping his school classes following his return to Lafayette. When Dalton's father left his mother and moved to Houston, the aunt decided that Dalton had to be told that he was not her child. Dalton was unaware of his true parentage until the age of eleven. When he was two weeks old his parents sent him from their home in Lafayette to live with his aunt and uncle in Houston, Texas.

is currently serving a 60-year sentence in the same prison his father was executed in. Prejean's son, Dalton Prejean Jr., born while his father was awaiting execution, was himself convicted of the 2001 death of a 14-month old baby. The case received international attention because the defendant was a black man convicted by an all-white jury had brain damage and tested just above mental retardation and was age 17 at the time of the crime. He was tried, convicted, and executed in the electric chair in Louisiana for the murder of Louisiana State Police Trooper Donald Cleveland. Louisiana State Penitentiary, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, U.S.ĭalton Prejean (Decem– May 18, 1990) was one of 22 people in the United States executed for crimes committed as a juvenile prior to the decision Roper v.

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