Posted on 10/05/2015 8:51:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris
HOUSTON (AP) A Texas inmate set to be executed Tuesday acknowledges fatally shooting a Mexican man who was robbed of $8 and had just moved his family to Houston, but insists he doesn't deserve to die for the killing 17 years ago.
"This is not a capital case," Juan Martin Garcia, 35, told The Associated Press last month in a prison interview near Livingston. "I got railroaded since I didn't take the stand (to testify at trial)."
Evidence at his 2000 capital murder trial and testimony from a companion identified him as the ringleader of four men involved in the September 1998 shooting and robbery of Hugo Solano outside Solano's apartment complex. The slaying and a string of other violent crimes tied to Garcia, who was 18 at the time of the killing, convinced a jury he should be put to death.
His lethal injection to be held in Huntsville would be the 11th this year in Texas, which carries out capital punishment more than any other state. Three more executions are scheduled in upcoming weeks.
No late appeals seeking to block the execution were in the courts on Monday. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a clemency petition for Garcia on Friday.
Garcia, his two cousins and another man had already carried out a carjacking when they spotted Solano during the early morning hours of Sept. 17, 1998, getting into his van to go to work, according to the evidence.
Solano's relatives said the 36-year-old, who did Christian missionary work in Guadalajara, Mexico, had moved with his wife to Houston weeks earlier so their children could be educated in the U.S.
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Well, Juan, it really isn’t that $8 part. It is the ‘fatal shooting’ part.
Well, Juan... If you were in Mexico, they would have killed you on the spot, just for the $8.
Retarded. Simply freaking too stupid to live. Kill the bastard!
And he should not have been on death row for 17 years at tax payers expense. Should have hanged him the Sunday following the end of the trial.
buh-bye
Reminds me of the absurd story, a few years ago, that produced the headline, Woman Arrested for Petting Dog."
The omitted details told a completely different story.
“This is not a capital case”
Wrong.
If you kill a man for $8, then you deserve to die for killing a man for $8.
Sorry Juan...but my care meter is registering ZERO for your cause.
You should’ve been dealt with back in 1999 at the latest. You won’t be missed!
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected an appeal from Juan Martin Garcia, 34,
who was sentenced to death for the shooting death of a 36 year old Houston area man during
a robbery nearly 16 years ago that authorities said netted him $8.
His attorneys contend that he’s mentally impaired and ineligible for the death penalty.
From his loss of appeal article back in 2014:
http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Four-Texas-Death-Row-Inmates-Lose-Appeals-265258511.html
He had his day in court and went thru the appeals process..
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