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Killer gang member starts SNORING as he is executed in Texas prison
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Posted on 09/20/2013 5:31:17 AM PDT by Morgana

A former South Texas street gang member started snoring as he was lethally injected in a Texas prison.

Robert Gene Garza, 30, smiled and blew a kiss to friends and relatives as they entered the death chamber. In a brief final statement, he thanked them for coming and told them he loved them.

'I know it's hard for you. It's not easy. This is a release. Y'all finally get to move on with your lives,' he said.

Garza took several deep breaths as a lethal dose of pentobarbital began flowing into his arms, then began snoring. All movement stopped within less than a minute. He was pronounced dead 26 minutes later, at 8.41pm.

He became the 12th condemned inmate executed this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any other state.

Garza was a member of a Rio Grande Valley gang known as the Tri-City Bombers even before he was a teenager, and he told police that the 2002 shootings that lead to the deaths of four women was made under duress.

But prosecutors said Garza orchestrated the gang's plan to silence the women, who Garza thought had witnessed another gang crime, and was present when several gang members opened fire on the women when they arrived at their trailer park home after work at a bar. Garza, who was arrested in late January 2003, was convicted under Texas' law of parties, which makes a non-triggerman equally culpable

Garza, who was arrested in late January 2003, was convicted under Texas' law of parties, which makes a non-triggerman equally culpable

'I really didn't have anything to do with the scenario the state was providing,' Garza told The Associated Press recently from death row.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: deathrow; executed; execution; gangs; inmate; snoring; texas
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The whole process of being executed was so boring it put it to sleep.
1 posted on 09/20/2013 5:31:17 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Not many get the comfort of dying in their sleep, murders should be executed in the same manner they murdered the victim/s.

Of course that would be cruel and unusual, as if the victims were all murdered comfortably in their sleep.


2 posted on 09/20/2013 5:48:04 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: Morgana

I am still working on my 1st cup of coffee: I misread that headline as ‘he started SNORTING’.

Either word, he isn’t doing that any more.

One less societal problem the rest of humanity has to deal with this morning.


3 posted on 09/20/2013 5:49:12 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: Morgana

Texas has only 245 on death row. So many more deserve it, so armed Texans help out by shooting many home invaders, a much cheaper form of extermination that doesn’t require years of taxpayer-funded lawyers. The lawyers aren’t happy with this arrangement, of course.


4 posted on 09/20/2013 5:52:58 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: Morgana

Death Apnea.


5 posted on 09/20/2013 5:53:19 AM PDT by vladimir998
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To: Morgana

Too bad we can’t introduce more appropriate means of executing folk, like public impalement, drawing and quartering, and burning at the stake.
I’d like to seem him snore through that.


6 posted on 09/20/2013 5:57:09 AM PDT by Little Ray (How did I end up in this hand-basket, and why is it getting so hot?)
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To: vladimir998

Or perhaps it was his way of giving a final F_U to the world.


7 posted on 09/20/2013 5:58:03 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: Morgana

Actually, his snoring might be a service to supporters of lethal injection. Is not one of the cries against the drug sequence that the perp might be paralyzed but aware, this constituting cruel if not unusual punishment? Well, this perp proved that the sleep part came first without paralysis.

It is a shame that he gave not one iota of similar consideration to his victims.


8 posted on 09/20/2013 6:07:42 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Henceforth, the Office of the President shall be known as IMPOTUS)
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To: NonValueAdded

Exactly my thought.

Sorry about the comfort the guy obviously was feeling, but it is done.

That should be the more pressing need.


9 posted on 09/20/2013 6:12:47 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network
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To: Morgana

Judge Issac Parker had it right.


10 posted on 09/20/2013 6:23:24 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Remember Ty Woods? Glenn Doherty ? Forgot already?)
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To: PoloSec

Applying the rules of statutory construction, “cruel and unusual” means a prohibition to a punishment that meets both definitions. Otherwise they would have written it as “cruel OR unusual.”

So, putting the condemned to death in the manner in which they killed their victims may be cruel, but it’s not unusual if you do it to all of them.

I don’t see the constitutional problem here.


11 posted on 09/20/2013 6:24:42 AM PDT by henkster (democrats will sacrifice the lives of our servicemen so 0bama doesn't look bad.)
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To: Morgana

His snoring problem has been cured!


12 posted on 09/20/2013 6:36:04 AM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Morgana

Bury him in an unmarked grave and move on to the next one.


13 posted on 09/20/2013 6:41:48 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Morgana

SO it only took 10 years to execute this one.

My neighbor is a member of the Mexican Mafia, by the way.


14 posted on 09/20/2013 6:44:20 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: vladimir998

Dying people sometimes fart too.

There is a lot to the dying process most people are unaware of.

Oh well. He is still dead.

Maybe he shouldn’t have killed those people.

I will snore tonight. But the difference is, I will snore tomorrow night too.


15 posted on 09/20/2013 6:50:34 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers?)
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To: Morgana
One of the most common criminal prison tattoos is the teardrop underneath the eye. The most widely accepted meaning of the teardrop is the wearer has killed someone — this is reported to have originated among the Chicano gangs of California. The teardrop can also mean that the wearer has served a long prison sentence, or is mourning the loss of a family member. A clear teardrop, like the one pictured, can mean that the wearer has committed an attempted murder, or alternatively, that a close friend was killed and the wearer is seeking revenge.

Facile est descendens ad inferos, nocte et die portas mortis caligine longe steterunt: et ascendit iterum gressus revocare sub auras - et ibi est fricare, munus. - It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

- Virgil

16 posted on 09/20/2013 7:23:52 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: TomGuy
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17 posted on 09/20/2013 9:36:42 AM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

“One of the most common criminal prison tattoos is the teardrop underneath the eye...........”

I have heard this before and I have seen people with this tat.

Why on earth would someone want to advertise this?


18 posted on 09/20/2013 9:38:17 AM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana; PoloSec

TDCJ is running out of the drug pentobarbital this month and the company that makes it refuses to sell them anymore.
Don’t know what they’ll use next month.


19 posted on 09/20/2013 9:38:25 AM PDT by sunny48
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To: Morgana

That’s too easy a death. The creeps ought to dread it.


20 posted on 09/20/2013 11:00:03 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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