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Texas Executes Cuban-Born Inmate Convicted Of Killing Drug Dealer
Texas carried out the 21st execution of the year Tuesday as a Cuba-born inmate convicted of killing a drug dealer was put to death in Huntsville.
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HUNTSVILLE (November 10, 2009)--A Cuban-born Texas inmate man identified by officials as a ranking member of a Hispanic Texas prison gang was executed just after 6 p.m. Tuesday in Huntsville for the robbery and murder of a drug dealer in Houston more than a decade ago.
Valle, who was known to friends as "El Cubano," denied killing 28-year-old drug dealer Jose Martin Junco at a Houston home, but said there was little he could do.
He said he was at peace with the likelihood he would receive the lethal injection Tuesday evening.
Prosecutors said Valle, 34, was responsible for several other murders as part of the gang La Raza Unida, or A Race United.
He exhausted his appeals after the U.S. Supreme Court refused earlier this year to review his case.
Last week, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles rejected a request from Valley’s lawyers to commute the death sentence to life in prison.
It was the 21st execution of the year in Texas.
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Did you all mis the part where he was responsible for several other murders. He may have done society a favor by killing a drug dealer, but he was still a threat to society.
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How can a man that kills a known drug dealer get the death penalty(he should have got an award)then we have a man that smuggles 100 innocent people in a hot trailor in Victoria Tx and ends up killing 17 of them and he only get 14 years in jail
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Well Texas had to keep ahead of Virginia....
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