DOJ employee charged with capital murder after spiking pregnant girlfriend’s coffee with abortion pills: sheriff

A United States Department of Justice employee secretly spiked his pregnant girlfriend’s drink with an abortion drug to induce a miscarriage without her knowledge, according to cops. Justin Anthony Banta, 38, who works in the IT department of the DOJ, is charged with capital murder in Parker County, Texas, for allegedly putting “Plan C” abortion drugs in his pregnant girlfriend’s coffee, the sheriff’s office said in a statement. [SNIP] It was not clear what sort of punishment Banta faces on the capitol murder charges, however capital murder is the only death-penalty eligible charge in Texas.