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NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·FEBRUARY 2, 2009

USA - Texas. A Collin County jury decided that Raul Cortez, 28, should die

USA - Texas. A Collin County jury decided that Raul Cortez, 28, should die

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A Collin County jury decided that Raul Cortez, 28, should die. The sentence was announced by visiting State District Judge Webb Biard. The same jury found Cortez guilty in the March 12, 2004, shooting deaths of Rosa Barbosa, 46; her nephew, Mark Barbosa, 25; and his friends Matthew Self, 17, and Austin York, 18. The 4 were slain in what authorities say was a botched robbery plot. Eddie Ray Williams, 26, is also charged with capital murder in the case. His trial is pending.
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  • (source: Dallas Morning News, 02/02/2009)