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Texas kills (again)

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

via wire stories: Luis Salazar, 38, thanked friends and relatives for praying for him and asked to be forgiven for the “sins that I can remember” as the lethal drugs began taking effect. He was pronounced dead at 6:20 p.m., nine minutes after the injection. Salazar was the second condemned murderer put to death in Texas in as many nights and the 12th to die this year in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state. Salazar testified at his trial that after a night of drinking and using marijuana and cocaine, he thought he was in his own house on Oct. 11, 1997, and that Martha Sanchez, 28, and her three children were intruders. Evidence, however, showed the telephone wires at the home next-door to where Salazar once lived had been cut and Sanchez’s injuries indicated Salazar had tried to rape her before she was stabbed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on March 11, 2009 (boomark / email).