Texas man executed for 2001 abduction and killing of 18-year-old woman

CTV News ^ | June 26, 2024 | Juan A. Lozano and Michael Graczyk

[ridesthemiles]

I am having a harder time every day understanding what kind of person grows up wanting to be a “DEFENSE ATTORNEY”.

[ridesthemiles]

IIRC-— an easily run around $100,000 a year.

[Mark17]

The “Q” has a number of death row inmates, that have been there, since the early 80s. Unfortunately, they get the best health care money can buy.

[cherry]

the major expense in keeping these death row inmates in prison for so long are the legal maneuvers...leave it to lawyers to ruin everything they touch, just for money.

[alexander_busek]

We don’t need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers!

Credit where credit is due.

The actor portraying "Garibaldi," Jerry Doyle, had overheard Doyle saying that in real life by Straczynski, so Straczynski included it in a script.

Regards,

[tennmountainman]

He got a Humane Death.
She didn’t.

[thegagline]

Has anyone else seen that there is a pattern?

[popdonnelly]

And the World is a better place today for it.

[Phoenix8]

He dropped out of school in the 7th grade which in Texas I believe means he had to be 16. That’s quite a few Fs.

Libs don’t like to admit it but there is a fairly strong inverse correlation in intelligence and violent crime. Despite fantasy characters like Hannibal Lector the average psycho killer is stupid.

[Feckless]

A. M. F.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've spent some time checking out the website that the Texas Department of Prisons maintains for its "death row". Among the things found on the site is a list of those who've been executed over the last 20+ years.

You can click on the name of a particular executed person and see some details about him. You can also see if he's given a "last statement".

I've looked at some of those last statements and have been surprised by how many contain acknowledgments of guilt and expressions of remorse. Yes,there are some where the guy says "I didn't do it" or "the death penalty is wrong" but the majority seem to feature remorse. Maybe there is "redemption" after all..

[maddog55]

23 years of taxpayers money for this POS when 30cent bullet at the guilty verdict would have done the job.

[Hot Tabasco]

scheduled to execute Richard Rojem for the 1984

40 years later...SMH!

[Rummyfan]

Gonzales kidnapped Townsend from a rural home in Bandera County, northwest of San Antonio. He later took her to his family's ranch in neighbouring Medina County, where he sexually assaulted her before killing her. Her body wasn't found until October 2002, when Gonzales led authorities to her remains in southwest Texas after he had received two life sentences for kidnapping and raping another woman.

Well, AMF then.

[Rummyfan]

"He has earnestly devoted himself to self-improvement, contemplation, and prayer, and has grown into a mature, peaceful, kind, loving, and deeply religious adult. He acknowledges his responsibility for his crimes and has sought to atone for them and to seek redemption through his actions," Gonzales' lawyers had written Monday in their unsuccessful request to the Supreme Court for a stay of execution.

The fact that he tortured / raped / murdered two women - that we know of - that’s just an unfortunate part of his past!

[Flavious_Maximus]

Whenever a democrat is executed, a toilet is immediately flushed.

In 2025, there are going to be many many more toilets flushed.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Should have been within 90 days of being found guilty. Even better they should have followed Dean Martin in ROUGH NIGHT IN JERICHO.
“Lock him up. We’ll hang him tomorrow right after the trial.”

[ByteMercenary]

23 years of 3 hots and a cot not to mention hundreds of lawyer hours billed to the public coffers. A hemp and branch party held immediately after the first lost appeal would be far more appropriate.

Yes, an occasional innocent may be lost in this expidited process but if society knows for a fact that you will not live more than a week after your trial, there would be far less crime of any type.

[bgill]

Wasting air for 16 years after being sentenced.

[bgill]

Whatever he said it “were” plural.