A Texas A man was executed by suffocation and stabbing a young mother more than 20 years ago on Wednesday evening.
The authorities said that Moisis Sandoval Mendoza received a deadly injection in the state prison in Huntville and was declared his death at 6.40 pm. He was convicted of the killing of Rachel O’Neill Telencon, 20 years old.
After a spiritual advisor prayed for him for two minutes, Mendoza apologized repeatedly to the victim’s parents and their attendees, and called for each name. He said, addressing the parents of the woman, two brothers, his cousin and his uncle, who was watching a window from a neighboring room: “I am sorry for the stealing of Rachel’s life,” and he addresses the father of the woman, two brothers, a cousin and uncle who was watching a window from a neighboring room.
He also said that he stole Tolison’s daughter to her mother, adding: “I am sorry for that. I don’t know anything that I can say or do ever. The daughter was not present to implement.
Then he spoke shortly in the Spanish language, addressing his wife, sister and two sites sitting and watching a window from another witness room. “I love you, I am with you, I am fine and peace,” he said in the Spanish language, his words presented in an English translation. “You know I am fine, and everything is love,” he added.
When the injection began, he could have heard him making noisy begs and then began snoring. After about 10 snoring, the whole movement stopped and announced his death after 19 minutes.
Prosecutors say Mindoza, 41, has taken Tolison from her home in northern Texas, leaving her six -month -old daughter alone. The infant was found cold and moist but believed the next day by Tolleson’s mother. Tolison’s body was discovered six days later, and was left in a field near Al Khor.
Evidence in the Mendoza case showed that he also burned the body of Tolison to hide his mark. Dental records have been used to identify them, according to the investigators.
Earlier Wednesday, and US Supreme Court Mindoza’s lawyer’s request was rejected to stop his execution.
The minimum courts have been rejected by the contacts to reside. On Monday, the Amnesty and Baron Amnesty Council denied the request of Mendoza to transfer the death penalty to a lower penalty kick.
Mendoza’s Supreme Court lawyers told him that he was prevented by the lower courts from saying that he was deprived of effective assistance from the lawyer earlier in the appeal.
Mendoza’s lawyers claim that the former appeals lawyer, as well as the trial lawyer, has failed to challenge the critical certificate by a detentional officer, Robert Hinton. Prosecutors used this certificate to persuade jury that Mendoza would be a future danger to society – the legal result to secure the death penalty in Texas.
Mendoza’s lawyers claim that the officer, who worked in the province’s prison, where the prisoner was detained after his arrest, was a false testimony that Mendoza had started fighting with another prisoner. Mindoza lawyers say the other prisoner now claims a written certificate that he believes that detention officers want him to start fighting, and he was later rewarded.
“There is no doubt that the jury was listening. During its deliberations, the jury asked the” Mindoza verbs “in prison, including” assaulting the other prisoner. ” “It is clear from the notes of the jury, there is a reasonable possibility that the experience of the experience of the experience of the experience of failure to investigate the Hinton testimony affected the result.”
However, the Texas Public Prosecutor’s Office told the Supreme Court that Mindoza’s demand for ineffective lawyer had already been found by a low federal court to be “no gravity and chance.”
Even if the testimony of the detention officer is eliminated, the jury has heard fundamental evidence about the future risk of Mendoza and his long history of violence, especially against women, including attacking his mother and sister and sexually assaulting a 14 -year -old girl, according to the Prosecutor’s Office.
The Public Prosecutor’s Office said in the petition: “Finally, given the severe delay in this case, which is two decades old, the public interest weighs strongly. The state victims and crimes have” a strong and legitimate interest in punishing the guilty. “
The authorities said that in the days before the killing, Mendoza attended a party at Tolison House in Farmerzville, about 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Dallas. On the day her body was found, Mendoza told a friend of killing. The friend called the police and Mendoza was arrested.
The authorities said that Mendoza confessed to the police, but he could not give the investigators a reason for his actions. The investigators were told that he suffocated Tleson over and over again, sexually assaulted her and pulled her body into a field, where he suffocated her again and then stabbed her in the throat. Her body later moved to a distant position and burned it.
Mendoza was the third prisoner who was executed this year in Texas, and historically, the country’s most execution penalty in the country, and the thirteenth in the United States.
