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.
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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.
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.
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.
Death Apnea.
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.
Or perhaps it was his way of giving a final F_U to the world.
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.
Exactly my thought.
Sorry about the comfort the guy obviously was feeling, but it is done.
That should be the more pressing need.
Judge Issac Parker had it right.
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.
His snoring problem has been cured!
Bury him in an unmarked grave and move on to the next one.
SO it only took 10 years to execute this one.
My neighbor is a member of the Mexican Mafia, by the way.
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.
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
“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?
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.
That’s too easy a death. The creeps ought to dread it.
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