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Yesterday, Wednesday, a man was executed for killing a police officer in the state Texassouthern United States, despite suspicions of racism that clouded his trial.
Wesley Ruiz, a 43-year-old Hispanic American on death row, received a lethal injection in a Huntsville prison. He was declared dead at 18:41 (local time).
In 2007 in Dallas Wesley Ruiz he was pursued by the police, who suspected that his car was involved in the murder.
At the end of the chase, he shot and killed policeman Mark Nix, who was trying to break the window of his car with a baton. The bullet ended up killing the agent.
“I want to apologize to Mark and the Nicks family (…). I want to thank my family and friends around the world for their support. To my children, be strong and keep making me proud, don’t worry about me, I’ll be healthy,” he said during his final statement.
“I’m ready to go,” Ruiz concluded before the injection, as detailed in a statement from the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
This is the fourth convict executed since the beginning of the year in USA.
For self-defence”
During his trial Wesley Ruiz He stated that he feared for his life during the police pursuit and that, according to local press reports, he shot in “self-defence”. The jury still sentenced him to death.
In the following years, his lawyers unsuccessfully filed various appeals to challenge the verdict.
as a date executionfiled an urgent appeal, arguing that jurors relied on “overtly racist” elements and “overtly hostile stereotypes of Hispanics” in assessing Ruiz’s danger.
According to court documents, one of the jurors described him as an “animal”, a “mad dog”, and considered the Hispanics present at the trial to be “members of a gang.”
His appeal was denied at first instance and then sent to the Supreme Court, which did not grant a last-minute stay of execution.
Wesley Ruiz also joined the lawsuit filed by several death row inmates in Texaswho accuse state prison services of extending the expiration dates of lethal substances used for executions, one of which is known as pentobarbital.
According to the plaintiffs, there is a risk of undue suffering because the Constitution prohibits “inhuman punishments”. (AFP)
Source: RPP
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