In final moments before execution, Texas inmate finds forgiveness, Juan Martin Garcia was accomplished Tuesday for fatally cutting addition man afterwards annexation him of $8.
Mr. Garcia was arresting asleep from baleful bang at 6:26 p.m. in Huntsville, Texas, for the September 1998 killing of 36-year-old Hugo Solano. Mr. Solano had afresh confused to Houston, Texas, from Guadalajara, Mexico, so his accouchement could be accomplished in the United States.
Garcia apologized to Solano’s wife, Ana, and his babe who were present at the execution.
“The abuse that I did to your dad and bedmate – I achievement this brings you closure,” he said in Spanish from the afterlife alcove gurney, according to the Associated Press. “I never basic to aching any of you all.”
Solano’s ancestors sobbed from the afterlife alcove attestant allowance and told Garcia that they admired him. Afterwards the execution, Ana Solano said she admired the beheading had not taken abode because she accustomed Garcia’s apology. It came “from his heart,” Solano told AP. “It’s about God. It’s about Jesus.”
Ms. Solano had testified at the amends appearance of Garcia’s trial, adage she did not abutment a afterlife sentence. The added said Garcia adapted to reside so he could allotment the acquaint from his mistakes with others in agnate situations.
Garcia, who was 18 at the time of Solano’s shooting, already had a history with law enforcement. He was affiliated to at atomic eight aggravated robberies and two attempted murders alone in the few weeks before.
In a bastille account with AP endure month, Garcia seemed to acquire his fate. “If it’s God’s will, it’s his will,” said Garcia.
Eleazar Mendoza testified that Garcia, a artery assemblage member, approached Solano as he was accepting in his van to go to work, asked for his money at gunpoint, and again attempt him if he refused. Mr. Mendoza was bedevilled to 55 years in bastille for aggravated robbery.
Garcia, Mendoza, and two added accomplices had already agitated out a carjacking if they spotted Solano on Sept. 17, 1998.
Garcia claims that Solano, who was attempt four times in the arch and neck, was dead accidentally while the two struggled over Garcia’s gun. “He punches me,” Garcia said from afterlife row. “First affair that came through my apperception is that the dude is traveling to try to annihilate me. He affective the gun with both of his easily and it discharged.”
Garcia denied the robbery of $8, an accompanying abomination that fabricated the annihilation a basic case. Garcia claimed jurors unfairly penalized him because he didn’t yield the attestant angle in his own aegis trial.
The US Supreme Court banned to analysis Garcia’s case in March and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles alone a charity appeal in a 5 to 2 vote endure Friday.
Texas about carries out the afterlife amends added than any added state. Garcia was the 11th being to be accomplished in Texas this year, acceptation that the accompaniment has already agitated added executions this year than any added individual accompaniment aural the accomplished ten years. The Lone Star accompaniment has three added executions appointed for 2015.
Mr. Garcia was arresting asleep from baleful bang at 6:26 p.m. in Huntsville, Texas, for the September 1998 killing of 36-year-old Hugo Solano. Mr. Solano had afresh confused to Houston, Texas, from Guadalajara, Mexico, so his accouchement could be accomplished in the United States.Garcia apologized to Solano’s wife, Ana, and his babe who were present at the execution.
“The abuse that I did to your dad and bedmate – I achievement this brings you closure,” he said in Spanish from the afterlife alcove gurney, according to the Associated Press. “I never basic to aching any of you all.”
Solano’s ancestors sobbed from the afterlife alcove attestant allowance and told Garcia that they admired him. Afterwards the execution, Ana Solano said she admired the beheading had not taken abode because she accustomed Garcia’s apology. It came “from his heart,” Solano told AP. “It’s about God. It’s about Jesus.”
Ms. Solano had testified at the amends appearance of Garcia’s trial, adage she did not abutment a afterlife sentence. The added said Garcia adapted to reside so he could allotment the acquaint from his mistakes with others in agnate situations.
Garcia, who was 18 at the time of Solano’s shooting, already had a history with law enforcement. He was affiliated to at atomic eight aggravated robberies and two attempted murders alone in the few weeks before.
In a bastille account with AP endure month, Garcia seemed to acquire his fate. “If it’s God’s will, it’s his will,” said Garcia.
Eleazar Mendoza testified that Garcia, a artery assemblage member, approached Solano as he was accepting in his van to go to work, asked for his money at gunpoint, and again attempt him if he refused. Mr. Mendoza was bedevilled to 55 years in bastille for aggravated robbery.
Garcia, Mendoza, and two added accomplices had already agitated out a carjacking if they spotted Solano on Sept. 17, 1998.
Garcia claims that Solano, who was attempt four times in the arch and neck, was dead accidentally while the two struggled over Garcia’s gun. “He punches me,” Garcia said from afterlife row. “First affair that came through my apperception is that the dude is traveling to try to annihilate me. He affective the gun with both of his easily and it discharged.”
Garcia denied the robbery of $8, an accompanying abomination that fabricated the annihilation a basic case. Garcia claimed jurors unfairly penalized him because he didn’t yield the attestant angle in his own aegis trial.
The US Supreme Court banned to analysis Garcia’s case in March and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles alone a charity appeal in a 5 to 2 vote endure Friday.
Texas about carries out the afterlife amends added than any added state. Garcia was the 11th being to be accomplished in Texas this year, acceptation that the accompaniment has already agitated added executions this year than any added individual accompaniment aural the accomplished ten years. The Lone Star accompaniment has three added executions appointed for 2015.
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