Texas Executes Another Latino 48 Hours Later

Fri08Aug2008

Texas Executes Another Latino 48 Hours Later

08:27 H | Topics: Controversia - Honduras - Justice - Society

Amid international outrage and diplomatic pressure, the state of Texas has put to death yet another undocumented immigrant who was allegedly denied his right to see consular officials after arrest.

Earlier this week Mexican national José Medellín was executed, and last night Honduran national Heliberto Chi was put to death at Huntsville Prison. Al Jazeera reports:

Heliberto Chi, 29, was pronounced dead at 23:25 GMT after receiving a lethal injection at a death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas department of criminal justice said in a statement on Thursday.
The execution took place after the US Supreme Court rejected his final appeal.

Chi, who was living in the US illegally, shot his former boss dead and wounded a colleague in 2001 during a robbery in the Texan city of Dallas.

The New York Times reports that Chi's last words were “God forgive them, receive my spirit.”

Via / Al Jazeera

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1. Jenny ~ Monday, Aug 11 2008 | 20:42H:

And more of those Hispanic (there is no Latino race or ethnicity, you can't pretend you're not the descendents of those Spanish invaders who committed genocide in the lands now referred to as "Latin America", and who also invented the trans-Atlantic slave trade. No one is fooled) murderers on death row are going to pay for their crimes, as Jose Medellin did. Even in Mexico, the people are demanding a death penalty because the criminal culture there is getting to be too much.

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