USA - Texas. Yosvanis "El Cubano" Valle was executed

Yosvanis "El Cubano" Valle, 34, was executed Tuesday. Valle , a Cuban-born man identified as a leader in a Hispanic prison gang was executed for the June 1999 robbery-slaying of Jose Martin Junco, 28, a Houston drug dealer. Valle apologized: "I'm sorry from all my heart. I got to pay for it." "I was forced to do it," he said. "I was a gang member." Valle becomes the 21st condemned inmate to be put to death in Texas this year and the 444th overall since the state resumed capital punishment on December 7, 1982. Valle becomes the 44th condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the USA and the 1180th overall since the nation resumed executions on January 17, 1977.