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Texas Executes Another Latino 48 Hours Later
8:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|honduras|Justice|society · 1 Comment
8 Aug 2008Amid 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
Lethal injection of Latino tortuous, not instantaneous
12:49 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Florida|Justice · 3 Comments
15 Dec 2006
Death by lethal injection is supposed to be one of most “painless” methods of execution of prisoners condemned to this fate. But this apparently was not the case in the execution of Ángel Nieves Díaz, a Latino prisoner in Florida. It took two injections to kill him and witnesses claim that his death was anything but painless:
The execution yesterday of Puerto Rican Angel Nieves Díaz has revived controversy over the use of lethal injection as a method of execution for prisoners in the state of Florida, as the the prisoner needed two doses of the lethal cocktail, which prolonged his agony for a full 34 minutes.Nieves Díaz, sentenced to death for a 1979 murder, took 34 minutes to die because, according to the state’s prison department, he suffered a kidney condition that impeded his body from metabolizing chemical subtances quickly.
Morales: Intervention, for now
12:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Justice · Comments Off
21 Feb 2006
Michael Morales was set to become the first Latino executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated in the 70s. Last night, he had what he believed would be his last meal, and probably didn’t sleep through what he thought was to be his last night on earth. Today, he was to take a lethal injection and die. But that didn’t happen. Anesthesiologists who were to assist in the execution claimed that there was too great a possibility that Morales return to consciousness during the procedure, prolonging suffering:
Doctors said the ruling raised serious questions about the possibility of having to intervene in the execution “if any evidence of either pain or a return to consciousness arose.”
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