A man who killed an 11-year-old girl and 2 fellow death...
A man who killed an 11-year-old girl and 2 fellow death row inmates was executed Wednesday after he dropped his appeals and volunteered to die
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A man who killed an 11-year-old girl and 2 fellow death row inmates was executed Wednesday after he dropped his appeals and volunteered to die.
Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco, 43, had been declared competent to make that decision Tuesday after he was examined by 3 state-appointed psychiatrists. He was pronounced dead from lethal injection at 9:39 a.m. After the psychiatrists' examination, Jeb Bush lifted a stay of execution he had issued one day earlier. He was sentenced to death in 1988 after confessing to the slaying of Katixa "Kathy" Ecenarro, the 11-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend.
While in prison awaiting execution, Sanchez-Velasco was convicted in the 1995 stabbing deaths of 2 other death row inmates - Edward B. "Mike" Kaprat III and Charles Street. He was given 2 15-year sentences.
Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco, 43, had been declared competent to make that decision Tuesday after he was examined by 3 state-appointed psychiatrists. He was pronounced dead from lethal injection at 9:39 a.m. After the psychiatrists' examination, Jeb Bush lifted a stay of execution he had issued one day earlier. He was sentenced to death in 1988 after confessing to the slaying of Katixa "Kathy" Ecenarro, the 11-year-old daughter of his live-in girlfriend.
While in prison awaiting execution, Sanchez-Velasco was convicted in the 1995 stabbing deaths of 2 other death row inmates - Edward B. "Mike" Kaprat III and Charles Street. He was given 2 15-year sentences.
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- (Sources: Associated Press & Rick Halperin, 02/10/2002)
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