Posted on 04/06/2016 2:13:12 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Pablo Lucio Vasquez, 38, told police he was drunk and high when voices convinced him 18 years ago to kill David Cardenas by beating the seventh-grader with a pipe and then cutting his throat. He also told detectives in a videotaped statement that he lifted the boy's body, allowing the blood to drip on his face, and drank it.
Vasquez's lethal injection on Wednesday evening would be the 11th execution this year nationally and the sixth in Texas.
Vasquez's lawyer, James Keegan, appealed to the Supreme Court for a reprieve so the justices can review whether several potential jurors improperly were excused from Vasquez's capital murder trial because they either were opposed to the death penalty or not comfortable making such a judgment.
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Court records show Vasquez, his 15-year-old cousin, Andres Rafael Chapa, and Cardenas, Chapa's friend, all attended a party in Donna, a Texas border town where Vasquez and Chapa lived. Cardenas was from nearby Alamo, also in the Rio Grande Valley, and was spending the weekend with Chapa.
The killing occurred April 18, 1998, after the three left the party. Vasquez told authorities as they reached a wooden shed, he started hearing voices telling him to kill Cardenas.
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Vasquez told detectives he took a ring and gold necklace from Cardenas and that Chapa, using a shovel, also participated in trying to decapitate the boy.
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Pure evil...influenced and led (IMHO) by Satanic influence which he gave into. Others will say he was simply crazy.
either way, he should have been executed long ago.
The fact that he’s still alive today is an indictment of our criminal justice system.
At least he won’t die of old age like all the occupants of San Quentin Death Row. Over 700.. And wheeezing..
Why did it take EIGHTEEN YEARS to kill him when he admitted guilt? There are many patriotic Americans who would have happily offed him for free.
...adios mf
Good point!
18 years of trials and legal appeals, no doubt paid on both sides by taxpayers. And 18 years in comfortable prisons. I would hazard a guess that this foul murderer has cost the taxpayers something like 10 or 20 million dollars, at least.
Apart from the injustice of letting the worst kind of murderers live so long, or longer, I have always thought that not executing them when they deserve it has been extremely expensive for our country and its states and counties. Trillions of dollars running the prison and justice systems that could have been spent on something useful—or used to cut taxes.
All at the taxpayer’s expense.
And 18 years later, this piece of rat feces is still polluting the planet.
How come death penalties can take place at the state level, and not at the Federal level unless Obama is complicit in obstruction of justice?
I was under the impression that the drugs for DP were unobtainable.
Far too few. In a state as large a Texas, we have many more utterly evil vermin that need killing.
A travesty of justice.
I believe they should be allowed to appeal, and that the death penalty should only be given with irrefutable evidence, but eighteen years is a long time.
Sadly, even if one sentenced to death agrees with the sentence and wants it carried out, anyone can file an appeal on their behalf.
We spent millions keeping this cretin alive for 18 years????
I would have spent 40 cents on a bullet to the head of this POS the day he was convicted.
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