Death Penalty News

San Antonio – A former Border Patrol agent who confessed to killing four sex workers in 2018 was convicted of capital murder on Wednesday after a jury heard investigators tell him he wanted to kill “the streets” of his town in South Texas. was trying to “clean up”. Juan David Ortiz, 39, receives life in prison without the possibility of parole after prosecutors decided not to seek the death penalty. Ortiz, a Border Patrol intelligence supervisor at the time of his arrest, was charged with the murder of 29-year-old Melissa Ramirez; Claudine Anne Luera, 42; Giselda Alicia Cantu, 35; and Janelle Ortiz, 28. Their bodies were discovered in September 2018 on the streets outside Laredo. During the trial, which began last week, jurors heard Ortiz’s confession during a lengthy taped interview with investigators. Ortiz told investigators that he was a client of most of his victims, but he also expressed contempt for sex workers, describing them as “garbage” and “dirty” and insisting that he want...

The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea is Netflix's latest true-crime documentary that you don't want to miss. The gripping three-part series documents the crimes of Yoo Young-chul, who killed 20 people, many of whom were sex workers or elderly and wealthy. The documentary features new footage and features exclusive interviews with investigators and families of the victims to help catalog the crimes that rocked South Korea in the 2000s. On July 15, 2004, Yoo was arrested by Seoul police after several massage parlor employees and the police staged an impressive sting. He initially confessed to murdering 19 people between September 2003 and July 2004, but the true number of his victims was revealed to be 20. Yoo also admitted to committing acts of cannibalism. On December 13, 2004, Yoo received the death penalty. The last time the death penalty was carried out in South Korea was in 1997 and the sentence has sparked a debate over the death penalty in the country. In So...

The Taliban are are scouting pornographic sites to make a “kill list” of Afghan sex workers. It is said that the terrorist group is running a campaign to identify women who worked as prostitutes to pronounce death penalty on them.  In the last Taliban regime from 1996 to 2001, many such women were handed death sentences in public.  The Sun Online has reported that videos featuring Afghan prostitutes have been discovered by the Taliban death squads on niche porn sites.  The women are under serious threat of being gang-raped by the terror group before being beheaded, stoned or hung” by the Taliban. “They pretend to condemn pornography but are digging deep into the most obscure and deeply-hidden adult sites to find videos that show Afghan brothels so they can identity and slaughter or enslave the women who worked in them. Because the videos show obvious location markers of the brothels, these women are now in serious danger of being kidnapped or murdered in the most horrific...

A U.S. Border Patrol agent who confessed to shooting four women in the head and leaving their bodies on rural Texas roadsides has been indicted on a capital murder charge, a prosecutor said Wednesday. A grand jury decided to upgrade the charge against Juan David Ortiz, Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said at a news conference. Alaniz said prosecutors will seek the death penalty. Ortiz, 35, was initially charged with 4 counts of murder, as well as aggravated assault and unlawful restraint. He has been held in Webb County jail on a $2.5 million bond since his Sept. 15 arrest in the border town of Laredo. The Border Patrol intel supervisor and Navy veteran seemed to be living a typical suburban life with his wife and 2 children when the killings occurred. After the 1st slaying, he continued going to work as usual. He was eventually arrested after he pulled a gun on a woman who was able to escape and asked a state trooper for help. Authorities have said the v...