(March 31, 2008)-- Seven Mexican-born Texas death row inmates lost their bids for appeal Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court after the court's ruling last week that another Mexican-born inmate's case couldn't be reopened despite an order from President Bush.
The seven inmates whose cases were denied review are among 14 native Mexicans on death row in Texas.
Inmates whose cases were rejected include Cesar Fierro, one of the longest-serving condemned prisoners in the state.
The 51-year-old was convicted of the 1979 robbery and slaying of an El Paso taxi driver.
He has been on death row more than 28 years.
Other condemned prisoners to lose were Ruben Cardenas, a 37-year-old convicted of the rape-slaying of a 16-year-old girl abducted from Edinburg in 1997; Felix Rocha, a 31-year-old convicted of the slaying and robbery of a security guard outside a Houston club in 1994;
Virgilio Maldonado, a 42-year-old condemned for a 1995 robbery and slaying at a Houston apartment complex; Robert Ramos, a 53-year-old convicted of the 1992 slayings of his wife and two children at their home in Progreso in Hidalgo County; Humberto Leal Garcia, a 35-year-old condemned for the abduction, rape and fatal bludgeoning of a 16-year-old San Antonio girl in 1994, and Ignacio Gomez, a 38-year-old convicted of the fatal shooting of three people in El Paso in 1996.
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