TO Texas The man condemned by fatally strangle and stabbed a young mother more than 20 years ago was executed on Wednesday night while the victim’s mother and other relatives watched.
Moises Sandoval Mendoza, 41, received a lethal injection in the state prison in Huntsville and was declared dead at 6:40 pm
He was sentenced to death for his conviction in the murder of March 2004 of Rachelle O’Neil Tolleson, 20 years old.
After a spiritual advisor prayed for him for about two minutes, Mendoza apologized repeatedly by the two parents and other relatives of the victim present, calling each one by name.
“I am sorry to have thrown you from Rachelle’s life,” he said, addressing the parents, one of his brothers, a cousin and an uncle looking through a window from an adjoining room.
Mendoza also said that he had stolen his mother’s daughter to Tolleson, and added: “I’m sorry. I don’t know anything I can say or make up for that. I know I’m sincere. I apologize.”
The daughter was present for execution.
Then he spoke with letters in Spanish, addressing his wife, his sister and two friends who look through one window from another witness hall.
“I love you, I’m with you, I’m fine and peaceful,” he said in Spanish, his words tested in a transcription in English translation. “You know I’m fine and everything is love.”
As the injection, he could be heard doing two strong gasps and then Begen Begen. After about 10 snoring, all movements ceased and was declared dead 19 minutes later.
Prosecutors say that Mendoza, 41, Tolleson from his house in northern Texas, leaving his 6 -month -old daughter alone.
The baby was found cold and law, but safely the next day by Tolleson’s mother. Tolleson’s body was discovered six days later, left in a field near a stream.
The evidence in the case of Mendoza showed that Tolleson’s body had also burned to hide his digital footprints. Dental records were used to identify it, according to the researchers.
Pam O’Neil, the victim’s mother, told journalists after witnessing the execution of Mendoza that he could not undo the loss of his daughter.
When reading a statement, he said about Mendoza: “He is in his leg in the death corridor 20 years. That ended today. He was put to sleep. He did not feel pain. I wish I could say the same death of my daughter.”
When Mendoza’s relatives and friends left the prison, they seemed distressed and hugged.
Hours before Wednesday, the United States Supreme Court denied a final request of Mendoza’s lawyers to stop their execution.
Mendoza’s lawyers told the judges in a presentation that the lower courts of him gave him the prevention of the legs to argue that he had denied the effective assistance of the lawyers before in the appeal process.
But Texas’s Office of the Attorney General told the Supreme Court that Mendoza’s claim for the lawyer had previously been found “without merit and insubstantial” by a lower federal court.
The lower courts had also previously rejected their requests for a stay.
The Board of Perdons and Paroles de Texas denied on Monday Mendoza’s request to travel its death sentence to a minor penalty.
The authorities said that in the days before the murder, Mendoza had attended a party at Tolleson’s house in Farmersville, located about 45 miles northeast of Dallas.
The day his body was found, Mendoza told a friend about the murder. The friend called the Police and Mendoza was arrested.
Mendoza confessed to the police, but could not give the detectives a reason for the murder, authorities said. He told the researchers that he repeatedly choked Tolleson, assaulted her sexual and dragged her body to a field, where she drowned her again and then stabbed her in her throat. He later transferred his body to a more remote location and burned it, they said.
Mendoza was the third in Mate to the death this year in Texas, the most historical capital state of the nation and 13 in the United States.
On Thursday, Alabama plans to execute James Osgood for the 2010 rape and the murder of a woman.
