Supreme Court rejects appeals in Texas execution
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) " The U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt the scheduled execution of a Mexican citizen on death row in Texas for killing his 16-year-old cousin.Ruben Ramirez Cardenas was scheduled for lethal injection Wednesday evening for the February 1997 killing of Mayra Laguna in the Rio Grande Valley in far South Texas. The execution was delayed about four hours past its scheduled time while the court considered the appeal.Laguna was snatched from a bedroom she [...]
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