Posted on 12/08/2008 4:39:07 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
CORPUS CHRISTI — A Nueces County jury sentenced John Henry Ramirez to death in his capital murder trial Monday.The jury began deliberations at 10:30 a.m. and came back with its decision just after 2 p.m.
On Friday, the same jury deliberated about an hour and 15 minutes before finding Ramirez guilty of capital murder in the stabbing death of 45-year-old Pablo Castro.
The convenience store clerk was stabbed 29 times in the neck and back and robbed of $1.25 on July 19, 2004, as he was taking out the trash at the Times Market on Baldwin Boulevard.
Prosecutors say Ramirez, Angela Rodriguez and Christina Chavez committed three robberies together on the night Castro was killed. The two other robberies occurred later that night of customers at fast food drive-throughs.
Rodriguez and Chavez were caught that night. Both now are in prison. Ramirez eluded authorities until his capture in February near Brownsville.
The evidence against Ramirez included eyewitness testimony and blood and fingerprints linking him to the stabbing. His defense: He killed Castro, but didn't rob him.
A real piece of crap!
¡Nueces County jurors say "nuts to you" vato!
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He looks like a real punk where are his tattoos?
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This bad boy soon to sent to the trash bin methinks.
(Well, it’ll take a few years of appeals, etc.)
“It didn’t take long for the jury to sentence this piece of trash to death.”
It’s the Christmas season. Consider it a Texas jury’s gift to the state — and the nation.
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