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Seven Mexican-Born Texas Death Row Inmates Lose At Supreme Court Save Email Print

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(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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Posted by: TEXASLEGAL on Apr 1, 2008 at 06:44 AM
The supreme court finally makes a right decision. Bush's attempt to pander to the mexican government failed. We have border patrol agents in prison for doing their job and he is kissing illegal scumbags butts. Ok now it is time to line them up and put them down. Can't happen fast enough.

Posted by: Sue Location: Eddy on Mar 31, 2008 at 07:46 PM
I am glad that Texas has the death penalty, however, we don't use it ENOUGH! Why has Cesar Fierro been on Death Row for 28 years? He was sentenced to death and that sentence should have been carried out long ago. The other 6 "Mexican-born Texas death row inmates" all killed someone. Why haven't they been executed? Why am I still paying for these scumbags to live comfortably? The above article says they are Mexican-born? Are they LEGAL U.S. citizens? If not, I am even more irritated that my tax dollars are paying for 6 illegals who are murderers to live comfortably! You are right Reality Check, our justice system does need an overhaul. Whether you are a citizen or here illegally, once sentenced that sentence needs to be carried out, swiftly. In this case, the sentence is death and the sentence should have already been carried out. What an outrage.

Posted by: Reality Check Location: Whack em Waco on Mar 31, 2008 at 06:55 PM
Incarcerated since 1979? Man, does our justice system need an overhaul!

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