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  • Man Convicted in 1988 Slayings {immigrant}

    02/07/2008 6:30:43 AM PST · by 3AngelaD · 9 replies · 68+ views
    Washington Post ^ | February 7, 2008 | Tom Jackman
    A Fairfax County jury yesterday convicted {Salvadoran} Alfredo R. Prieto of two counts of capital murder in the slaying of a young couple near Reston in December 1988, and the jury will decide whether he should be executed....Prieto is on death row in California for the 1990 rape and shooting of a 15-year-old girl....is also charged in Arlington County with the rape and shooting of a woman in 1988...In addition, Prieto is a "strong suspect" in the fatal shooting of a man in Prince William County in 1989, Prince William Commonwealth's Attorney Paul B. Ebert said...authorities think Prieto killed five...
  • Mexico decries execution in Texas

    06/28/2006 10:14:03 AM PDT · by Kitten Festival · 67 replies · 1,554+ views
    Agencia EFE ^ | 28 June 2006 | Staff
    Mexico City, Jun 28 (EFE).- Authorities here expressed regret Wednesday over the execution of Mexican citizen Angel Maturino Resendiz, the notorious "Railroad Killer," at a prison in Huntsville, Texas. Resendiz, sentenced to death in 2000 for the rape-murder of a Houston doctor but also believed responsible in a dozen other slayings, was executed Tuesday night by lethal injection "despite medical evidence about the severe mental disturbances he suffered," the Mexican foreign ministry said in a communique. A Texas court ruled last Wednesday that Resendiz, who asked for forgiveness before being executed and said he deserved his fate, was mentally competent...