A Dallas man who was convicted last Thursday of capital murder in the stabbing deaths of his wife and her two sons received the death penalty Thursday morning.
Robert Sparks admitted fatally stabbing his sleeping wife, Chare Agnew, and her two young sons, Harold Sublet, Jr. and Raekwon Agnew, in a call to 911 on Sept. 15, 2007. Sparks told police he also raped his two stepdaughters and locked them in a closet inside the family's house on Ezekial Avenue in Rochester Park.
Prosecutors said after Sparks stabbed his wife with a buck knife, he went into her sons' room and pulled the 9- and 10-year-old boys into the kitchen where they were stabbed nearly 50 times each.
Sparks was arrested three days after the bodies were found in the house. As police apprehended Sparks he told news reporters that he killed his family because his wife had tried to poison him and that her sons were helping her.
Sparks faced the death penalty or life in prison with no parole.
