Texas executes inmate for killing man in $8 robbery, A bedevilled analgesic in Texas was accomplished Tuesday for fatally cutting addition man in a robbery that yielded just $8.
No backward appeals were filed for Juan Martin Garcia, who was lethally injected for the September 1998 killing and robbery of Hugo Solano in Houston. Solano, a Christian missionary from Guadalajara, Mexico, had confused his ancestors to the city-limits just weeks beforehand so his accouchement could be accomplished in the U.S.
Garcia, 35, apologized to Solano's ancestors in Spanish advanced of the execution. Solano's wife and babe sobbed and told the bedfellow they admired him.
"The abuse that I did to your dad and bedmate — I achievement this brings you closure," he said. "I never basic to aching any of you all."
He told his sister and several accompany in English that he admired them. "No amount what, bethink my promise," Garcia said. "No amount what, I will consistently be with you."
As the dosage of pentobarbital began, he winced, aloft his arch and afresh befuddled it. He gurgled already and snored already afore his movement stopped. He was arresting asleep 12 account later, at 6:26 p.m. CDT.
In an account with The Associated Press endure month, Garcia accustomed he attempt Solano but denied the robbery, an accompanying abomination that fabricated it a basic case.
Garcia, who was affiliated to at atomic eight aggravated robberies and two attempted murders in the weeks afore and afterwards Solano's death, aswell insisted jurors had unfairly penalized him because he didn't yield the attestant angle in his own aegis at trial.
The U.S. Supreme Court banned to analysis Garcia's case in March. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a 5-2 vote, banned a charity appeal from Garcia endure week.
The beheading was the 11th this year in Texas, which carries out basic abuse added than any added state.
Evidence at the 2000 balloon and affidavit from a accompaniment articular Garcia, who was 18 at the time of the killing and a artery assemblage member, as the agitator of four men complex in Solano's cutting and robbery. The annihilation and cord of added agitated crimes angry to Garcia assertive a Harris County board he should be put to death.
Garcia, his two cousins and addition man had already agitated out a carjacking if they spotted the 36-year-old Solano aboriginal on Sept. 17, 1998, accepting into his van to go to work.
Eleazar Mendoza, who was bedevilled to 55 years in bastille for aggravated robbery, testified that Garcia approached Solano and acicular a gun. Mendoza said Garcia ordered Solano to abandonment his money afresh attempt him if he refused.
Garcia told the AP that it was Mendoza's abstraction to rob Solano and that Solano escalated the battle by resisting.
"He punches me," Garcia said from a visiting cage alfresco 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."
Solano was attempt four times in the arch and neck.
Garcia was arrested added than a anniversary afterwards if he alone a gun while accepting out of a car that badge had pulled over for a torn headlight. He was appear but arrested afresh if the gun was akin to Solano's slaying.
Another defendant, Raymond McBen, was bedevilled to 30 years in bastille for aggravated robbery and paroled a year ago. The fourth man charged, Gabriel Morales, was accustomed a activity book for basic murder.
Three added Texas inmates are appointed for executions in accessible weeks. They cover Licho Escamilla, who is set to die next anniversary for the 2001 cutting afterlife of Dallas badge administrator Christopher Kevin James.
No backward appeals were filed for Juan Martin Garcia, who was lethally injected for the September 1998 killing and robbery of Hugo Solano in Houston. Solano, a Christian missionary from Guadalajara, Mexico, had confused his ancestors to the city-limits just weeks beforehand so his accouchement could be accomplished in the U.S.Garcia, 35, apologized to Solano's ancestors in Spanish advanced of the execution. Solano's wife and babe sobbed and told the bedfellow they admired him.
"The abuse that I did to your dad and bedmate — I achievement this brings you closure," he said. "I never basic to aching any of you all."
He told his sister and several accompany in English that he admired them. "No amount what, bethink my promise," Garcia said. "No amount what, I will consistently be with you."
As the dosage of pentobarbital began, he winced, aloft his arch and afresh befuddled it. He gurgled already and snored already afore his movement stopped. He was arresting asleep 12 account later, at 6:26 p.m. CDT.
In an account with The Associated Press endure month, Garcia accustomed he attempt Solano but denied the robbery, an accompanying abomination that fabricated it a basic case.
Garcia, who was affiliated to at atomic eight aggravated robberies and two attempted murders in the weeks afore and afterwards Solano's death, aswell insisted jurors had unfairly penalized him because he didn't yield the attestant angle in his own aegis at trial.
The U.S. Supreme Court banned to analysis Garcia's case in March. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, in a 5-2 vote, banned a charity appeal from Garcia endure week.
The beheading was the 11th this year in Texas, which carries out basic abuse added than any added state.
Evidence at the 2000 balloon and affidavit from a accompaniment articular Garcia, who was 18 at the time of the killing and a artery assemblage member, as the agitator of four men complex in Solano's cutting and robbery. The annihilation and cord of added agitated crimes angry to Garcia assertive a Harris County board he should be put to death.
Garcia, his two cousins and addition man had already agitated out a carjacking if they spotted the 36-year-old Solano aboriginal on Sept. 17, 1998, accepting into his van to go to work.
Eleazar Mendoza, who was bedevilled to 55 years in bastille for aggravated robbery, testified that Garcia approached Solano and acicular a gun. Mendoza said Garcia ordered Solano to abandonment his money afresh attempt him if he refused.
Garcia told the AP that it was Mendoza's abstraction to rob Solano and that Solano escalated the battle by resisting.
"He punches me," Garcia said from a visiting cage alfresco 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."
Solano was attempt four times in the arch and neck.
Garcia was arrested added than a anniversary afterwards if he alone a gun while accepting out of a car that badge had pulled over for a torn headlight. He was appear but arrested afresh if the gun was akin to Solano's slaying.
Another defendant, Raymond McBen, was bedevilled to 30 years in bastille for aggravated robbery and paroled a year ago. The fourth man charged, Gabriel Morales, was accustomed a activity book for basic murder.
Three added Texas inmates are appointed for executions in accessible weeks. They cover Licho Escamilla, who is set to die next anniversary for the 2001 cutting afterlife of Dallas badge administrator Christopher Kevin James.
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