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Texas executes gang hit man for killing woman over drug tax
Associated Press
By MICHAEL GRACZYK2 hrs ago
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© AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Manuel Vasquez. He is scheduled for execution Wednesday, March 11, 2015 for the ordered murder of a San…
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Mexican Mafia hit man convicted of beating and strangling a San Antonio woman because she didn't pay the gang's 10 percent tax on her illegal drug sales was executed Wednesday evening.
The injection of Manuel Vasquez with a lethal dose of pentobarbital leaves Texas with enough of the powerful sedative to carry out only one more execution. Vasquez was the fourth Texas inmate put to death this year, and at least six are scheduled for execution in the coming weeks.
Texas prison officials, like those in other death penalty states, have found it increasingly difficult to find suppliers to provide drugs intended for capital punishment use.
Vasquez, 46, was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. CDT, 17 minutes after the drug began being administered.
Vasquez, in a final statement, told his family and friends he loved them and thanked "the Lord for his kind mercy, faithfulness and unconditional love."
"In Jesus' name I pray," he said, then told the warden: "I'm ready."
He took three deep breaths, then began snoring loudly. The snores became progressively quiet, and all movement stopped within less than a minute.
The sister of his victim was among witnesses watching through a window. He never looked at her. His own sister and a female friend cried as they watched in an adjacent room.
Vasquez's lawyers filed no late appeals to delay his execution for the 1998 slaying of 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra.
Testimony at Vasquez's trial showed Ybarra had ignored the gang's "dime" tax on street drug sales in San Antonio, so Vasquez and two partners were ordered that she "had to go down."
"I'm sure she was told if you're selling, you've got to pay the tax," said Mary Green, an assistant Bexar County district attorney who prosecuted Vasquez.
"I guess she didn't take it seriously."
Fueled by a night of drinking and drugs, the men put on bandannas to cover their faces and socks on their hands to prevent fingerprints and barged into a room at a run-down San Antonio motel where Ybarra was staying with her boyfriend, Moses Bazan.
Yo, one less Mexican we need to worry about! Thanks Texas!
"GTP"
"OBAMA AND HIS PUPPETS HATE AMERICA"
Associated Press
By MICHAEL GRACZYK2 hrs ago
PREVIOUS FULL STORY1/2 NEXT
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Mexican Mafia hit man convicted of beating and strangling a San Antonio woman because she didn't pay the gang's 10 percent tax on her illegal drug sales was executed Wednesday evening.
The injection of Manuel Vasquez with a lethal dose of pentobarbital leaves Texas with enough of the powerful sedative to carry out only one more execution. Vasquez was the fourth Texas inmate put to death this year, and at least six are scheduled for execution in the coming weeks.
Texas prison officials, like those in other death penalty states, have found it increasingly difficult to find suppliers to provide drugs intended for capital punishment use.
Vasquez, 46, was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. CDT, 17 minutes after the drug began being administered.
Vasquez, in a final statement, told his family and friends he loved them and thanked "the Lord for his kind mercy, faithfulness and unconditional love."
"In Jesus' name I pray," he said, then told the warden: "I'm ready."
He took three deep breaths, then began snoring loudly. The snores became progressively quiet, and all movement stopped within less than a minute.
The sister of his victim was among witnesses watching through a window. He never looked at her. His own sister and a female friend cried as they watched in an adjacent room.
Vasquez's lawyers filed no late appeals to delay his execution for the 1998 slaying of 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra.
Testimony at Vasquez's trial showed Ybarra had ignored the gang's "dime" tax on street drug sales in San Antonio, so Vasquez and two partners were ordered that she "had to go down."
"I'm sure she was told if you're selling, you've got to pay the tax," said Mary Green, an assistant Bexar County district attorney who prosecuted Vasquez.
"I guess she didn't take it seriously."
Fueled by a night of drinking and drugs, the men put on bandannas to cover their faces and socks on their hands to prevent fingerprints and barged into a room at a run-down San Antonio motel where Ybarra was staying with her boyfriend, Moses Bazan.
Yo, one less Mexican we need to worry about! Thanks Texas!
"GTP"
"OBAMA AND HIS PUPPETS HATE AMERICA"
