The prisoner, 41 years previous, He was pronounced useless at 6:50 p.m. native time. (2350 GMT) after receiving a deadly injection on the Huntsville State Penitentiary.
Earlier than the deadly injection, Gonzales used his final phrases to apologize to the sufferer’s householdBridget Townsend, cuyos stays weren’t discovered till greater than a yr later after she was reported lacking from her residence in Bandera County in January 2001.
“I can’t put into phrases the ache I’ve induced them, the harm, what I took from them and can’t give again. I hope this apology is sufficient“, mentioned.
“I by no means stopped praying that they’d forgive me and that someday I might have this chance to apologize. I owe them my life and I hope that someday they are going to forgive me.“He added in his statements, which he concluded by saying that he was “prepared” for the injection.
The final phrases of Ramiro Gonzales, who was simply executed in Texas. pic.twitter.com/5iJFj0kh52
— Maurice Chammah🍹🎻 (@MauriceChammah) June 27, 2024
Gonzales kidnapped Townsend from a rural residence in Bandera County, northwest of San Antonio. He later took her to her household’s ranch in neighboring Medina County, west of San Antonio, the place He sexually assaulted her earlier than killing her.
Whereas serving time for an unrelated assault in 2002, Gonzales confessed to the rape and homicide of Townsend and led the police to his stays.
We’re heartbroken to share that SCOTUS has denied Ramiro Gonzales’s closing plea for his life, and he can be executed by the State of Texas tonight. pic.twitter.com/5rmPYzNjx9
— Texas Defender Service (@TexDefender) June 26, 2024
Gonzales made a closing request for clemency earlier than his execution, which was denied. In that request, he acknowledged that since his arrival on demise row in 2006, had devoted his life to Christianity and had served as a non secular chief for others condemned to demise.
Earlier this month, a gaggle of 11 evangelical leaders from throughout the nation requested Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Republican, to cease the execution and grant a pardon to Gonzales.
In an announcement Monday, Gonzales’ attorneys, Thea Posel and Raoul Schonemann, known as their consumer “a person who at this time is, in nearly each means, a unique individual than he was when he killed Bridget Townsend in 2001″, when the sufferer was 18 years previous.
The execution of Gonzales It was the second this yr in Texas and the eighth in the USOn Thursday, Oklahoma is scheduled to execute Richard Rojem for the kidnapping, rape and homicide of a 7-year-old lady in 1984.
For the reason that Supreme Court docket reintroduced the demise penalty in 1976, 1,589 folks have been executed in the US, 587 of them in Texas.
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