| Birth Date: | 12 November 1980 |
| Birth Place: | Lissie, Texas, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Huntsville Unit, Huntsville, Texas, U.S. |
| Victims: | Justin Hurst, 34 |
| Conviction: | Capital murder |
| Criminal Status: | Executed |
| Criminal Penalty: | Death (November 7, 2008) |
| Death Cause: | Execution by lethal injection |
| Date: | March 17, 2007 |
James Garrett Freeman (November 12, 1980[1] – January 27, 2016[2]) was an American man who was convicted, sentenced to death, and executed for murder in Texas.
Freeman originated from Lissie, an unincorporated area in Wharton County, Texas. He was a welder, but was unemployed at the time he committed murder. He had no record of violence. On March 17, 2007, Freeman engaged in a high-speed chase with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) officers. At the Lissie Cemetery, where the chase ended, he fired at TPWD staff with an AK-47 and a Glock pistol. Justin Hurst, a 34-year old TPWD game warden, was struck twice and killed.[3] Hurst had turned 34 that day. Freeman was shot four times and survived.
Freeman, Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ)#999539,[1] was convicted and sentenced to death. While on death row he was in Polunsky Unit.[4] He was executed at Huntsville Unit on January 27, 2016, nine years after the murder.
The Justin Hurst Wildlife Management Area (WMA) of the TPWD, located in Brazoria County, Texas,[5] was renamed after the victim in 2007. It was formerly the Peach Point WMA.[6]