Texas Death Row Inmates Lose Supreme Court Appeals

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Posted: 1:15 PM Mar 19, 2007
Last Updated: 1:12 PM Mar 19, 2007

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(March 19, 2007)--Two condemned Texans lost appeals before the US Supreme Court Monday.

One, 36-year-old Rolando Ruiz, Jr., was convicted of being the triggerman in a murder-for-hire plot in San Antonio.

The other, 36-year-old George Whitaker III of Houston, awaits execution for the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Houston-area girl.

Justices gave no reason for refusing the two requests for reviews.

Neither man has pending execution dates.

Ruiz awaits death for the July 1992 shooting death of 29-year-old Theresa Rodriguez.

She was shot in the head at close range with a handgun in the garage of her San Antonio home.

Evidence showed Ruiz was paid $2,000 by Rodriguez's husband and brother-in-law so they could collect on life insurance policies worth $400,000.

Husband Michael Rodriguez and his brother, Mark Rodriguez, are both serving life sentences for her death.

Whitaker was sentenced to die for the 1994 slaying of Kiki Carrier at her home outside Crosby in Harris County, east of Houston.

She was the sister of his ex-girlfriend.

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