Posted on 08/07/2008 5:11:53 AM PDT by TexasRedeye
Heliberto Chi, a Honduran native...moved one step closer to execution Wednesday when [Texas"] highest criminal court rejected his bid for a stay.
Chi, condemned for killing Armand Paliotta during an after-hours robbery ...will be put to death tonight in Huntsville unless his lawyers can persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to spare his life.
Arlington attorney Wes Ball said the odds are against Chi because Ball’s argument is similar to the one the justices rejected Tuesday when they allowed the execution of Mexican national Jose Ernesto Medellin to go forward.
(Excerpt) Read more at star-telegram.com ...
If Texas can’t deport ‘em back to Central America, we CAN deport ‘em straight to Hell!
Shot two of his friends in the back while he was robbing their store. He already had the money, too. No excuses.
TEXAS: “You kill us and we’ll kill ya back.”
Permanently rehabilitated to murder no more !
Yep, unlike Kalifornia, Texas death row has a very low recidivism rate, hehehehehe
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