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Posted: 6:27 PM Mar 6, 2007
Texas Executes Prison Gang Chief For Double Slaying
Prison gang chief Robert Perez, who was linked to a string of killings in the 1990s, was executed Tuesday evening in Huntsville.
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(March 6, 2007)--The head of a notorious prison gang who allegedly approved more than a dozen killings in San Antonio during the 1990s heads was put to death just after 6 p.m. Tuesday in Huntsville.
Mexican Mafia chief Robert Perez was executed for the Alamo City hits on Jose Travieso and James Rivas 13 years ago.
He was the seventh prisoner Texas has put to death this year and the first of two in as many nights.
Appeals were exhausted for Perez.
A lawsuit on his behalf challenging the Texas execution procedures was dismissed in a Houston federal court last week.
Perez already was headed for a federal life prison term on racketeering and conspiracy convictions for a series of robberies, drug deals and murders in San Antonio from 1994 through 1997.
But then, he was tried on state charges for the April 1994 murders of Travieso and Rivas.
Their shootings came during what authorities said was a power struggle within the prison gang.
That was after the Mexican Mafia lost its Texas founder and president, "Herbie" Huerta, to a federal racketeering conviction and life sentence in 1994.
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