Texas Executes Mexican National Despite International Ire

Style Magazine Newswire | 11/10/2017, 10:40 a.m.
Texas executed a Mexican national late Wednesday night despite a flurry of last-minute appeals and objections from his native country …
Death row inmate Ruben Cárdenas

Source: TexasTribune.org

Texas executed a Mexican national late Wednesday night despite a flurry of last-minute appeals and objections from his native country and United Nations human rights experts. Death row inmate Ruben Cárdenas had several appeals pending before the U.S. Supreme Court when the scheduled time of his execution — 6 p.m. — rolled around. The high court denied all appeals almost four hours later, setting his execution into process. In his final words, Cárdenas thanked his family, friends, attorneys and the Mexican government for their help. Cárdenas, 47, was injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital and pronounced dead at 10:26 p.m. He was convicted and sentenced to death in the 1997 Edinburg murder of his 16-year-old cousin, Mayra Laguna.

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