Death Penalty News

(Texas Scorecard) – Oscar Rosales, an illegal alien with a violent record across two countries, will face the death penalty for gunning down a Harris County deputy. Rosales, a Salvadoran national living in Texas illegally, was found guilty of murdering Precinct 5 Constable Deputy Cpl. Charles Galloway in a January 2022 shooting. Rosales claimed it was a case of mistaken identity, alleging he believed the officer’s vehicle was occupied by cartel-affiliated strip club bouncers from a location he had visited earlier that night.

Washoe judge clears way for trial in 4 2019 homicides A judge has cleared the way for a Salvadoran immigrant to be tried in Reno for all 4 homicides he’s accused of committing during a 6-day crime rampage in 2 northern Nevada counties in January 2019, but the trial is still at least months away. Washoe County District Judge Connie Steinheimer has scheduled a hearing Wednesday on a motion by public defenders for Wilber Martinez-Guzman to postpone the trial indefinitely so they can eventually travel to El Salvador to gather information about his background, including his mental capacity. Travel there currently is prohibited due to the coronavirus. Martinez-Guzman, 21, is facing the death penalty after he was indicted last year in the killing of an elderly Reno couple and 2 Gardnerville women in their homes. The Nevada Supreme Court ruled in March that Washoe County prosecutors lack jurisdictional authority to prosecute him in Reno for the 2 killings in nearby Douglas County. The high c...

Junto al nicaragüense Bernardo Tercero, cuya ejecución está programada para el miércoles de esta semana, hay otros 21 extranjeros en el corredor de la muerte en Texas, en su mayoría mexicanos y centroamericanos, aunque también los hay de Sudamérica, Asia y el Caribe. Si nada lo impide, al nicaragüense lo ejecutarán el miércoles a las seis de la tarde locales en la cárcel de Huntsville, la más antigua de Texas y en la que ya han sido ajusticiados 13 extranjeros desde marzo de 1993, cuando el dominicano Carlos Santana murió a manos de sus verdugos. Tercero fue condenado por asesinar a otro hombre en 1997 durante un atraco en una lavandería de Houston, crimen por el que ha pasado los últimos 15 años de su vida en el temido corredor de la muerte de Texas, ubicado en la cárcel de Polunsky. Once mexicanos y tres salvadoreños, entre otros Además de Tercero, en Texas están condenados a muerte 11 mexicanos, tres salvadoreños, dos hondureños, un argentino, un dominicano, un vi...