Death Row inmates haunting final words before he was executed | C21DTVQ | 2024-03-03 11:08:01
A person who murdered his cousin and his girlfriend protested his innocence seconds earlier than he was put to dying.
Ivan Cantu, 50, was on dying row for more than 20 years for fatally capturing James Mosqueda, 27, and his companion Amy Kitchen, 22, in November 2000.
He has lengthy claimed he was innocent and obtained the backing of celebrities together with Kim Kardashian.
Simply before the lethal injection was admistered at 6.47pm on Wednesday in Hundtsville, Texas, he turned to kinfolk and associates who have been watching by way of a window and informed them: 'I would like you to know that I by no means killed James and Amy.
'And if I did, if I knew who did, you'd've been the first to know any info.
'If it does, if this is what it takes or have any reservations off in your mind, then so be it.'
In the run up to his execution he stated that his conviction was based mostly on shaky evidence and false testimony.
Cantu held his religious adviser's hand while strapped to the dying chamber gurney as she prayed. He thanked his supporters and referred to as for his case to be additional investigated to show 'I don't belong on this gurney'.
As the sedative pentobarbital was administered into his physique, Cantu started snoring and gasped at the eighth snore. He stopped shifting and was pronounced lifeless 21 minutes later.
Cantu was convicted of murder in 2001. Prosecutors argued that Cantu killed Mosqueda, who was an unlawful drug supplier, and Kitchen while making an attempt to steal cocaine, weed and cash from his cousin's residence in Dallas.
However Cantu claimed that a rival drug supplier murdered his cousin in a struggle about money.
Celebrities together with Kardashian, actor Martin Sheen, politicians including Rep Joaquin Castro and former US Housing Secretary Julian Castro, and religion leaders supported efforts to delay Cantu's execution.
After Cantu's execution, Collin County District Lawyer Greg Willis advised CNN: 'My hopeful prayer is for the victims' households, pals, and family members to find a long-awaited sense of peace.'
Cantu is the first inmate to be executed in Texas this yr.
It happened a day after the execution of serial killer Thomas Eugene Creech, 73,& in Idaho was halted after eight botched lethal injection attempts.
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