Posted on 05/24/2006 6:40:47 PM PDT by COEXERJ145
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A prison gang member was executed Wednesday for the drug-related slayings of a Harlingen couple after he tried to start an argument with the victims' family, prompting prison officials to cut his final statement short.
Jesus Ledesma Aguilar was the 10th prisoner put to death this year in Texas and the third of three this month in the nation's busiest capital punishment state.
Aguilar made eye contact with members of the victims' family and asked whether they were happy he was being executed.
"I didn't kill your father," he said to someone he mistakenly thought was the son who witnessed the crime.
Some of the family members began crying. Prison officials stopped Aguilar's statement after several minutes. He was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. CDT, seven minutes after he was given a lethal injection.
Aguilar, along with his nephew, Christopher Quiroz, were convicted in separate trials for the June 10, 1995, execution-style shooting deaths of Leonardo Chavez Sr., 33, and his wife, Annette, 31. Aguilar was sentenced to death while Quiroz got life in prison.
The condemned inmate's attorneys had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block his execution, claiming he was not given a chance to challenge information used at his trial from an alleged accomplice. The high court refused on a 5-4 vote.
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Ping to you.
Perhaps a mistake, perhaps Clintonian.
F*ck him!
buh-bye
Hope he gives my regards to Tookie.
I guess the charge for attempted capital murder in 1984 was a mistake too. I think I see a pattern here, good riddance.
Don't mess with Texas
That was a pretty big STFU! Good riddance.
Hey Sus,
By Sus!
Thank you for the ping. Another inductee to the Greater Huntsville Flatliners' Club! They're just DYING to make the list! I want them to dispatch that vermin that was supposed to go last week. One of the scum that was involved with the deaths of the girls in Houston. Jennifer Ertman, may God rest her soul and comfort her greiving parents. She was only fifteen. Just a baby.
On June 27, Angel Maturino Resendiz is scheduled to die.
I am still waiting on California to execute the Night Stalker.
I think the woman he murdered in Houston was a Medical Doctor. She heals and he kills. Maybe old Mephistopheles will want both he and the Tookem Meister on his dance card that night...
"Hey kid, who ya gonna believe, me or your lyin' eyes?"
Another one bites the dust...
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