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Just remembering one of the illegal aliens Trump and those concerned with crime are talking about. See here: Click here for story about Resendiz.

Mexico City, Jun 28 (EFE).- Authorities here expressed regret Wednesday over the execution of Mexican citizen Angel Maturino Resendiz, the notorious "Railroad Killer," at a prison in Huntsville, Texas. Resendiz, sentenced to death in 2000 for the rape-murder of a Houston doctor but also believed responsible in a dozen other slayings, was executed Tuesday night by lethal injection "despite medical evidence about the severe mental disturbances he suffered," the Mexican foreign ministry said in a communique. A Texas court ruled last Wednesday that Resendiz, who asked for forgiveness before being executed and said he deserved his fate, was mentally competent...

(6/27/06 - HUNTSVILLE, TX) - US Supreme Court appeals are still pending for convicted killer Angel Maturino Resendiz -- so Texas prison officials have delayed the scheduled start time of his execution. Officials won't proceed tonight in Huntsville until the appeals are resolved. The death warrant remains in effect until midnight.

(6/27/06 - HUNTSVILLE, TX) - Train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, linked to at least 15 indiscriminate murders near railroad tracks around the country, was executed Tuesday night. In his final statement, Resendiz asked for forgiveness. He was pronounced dead at 8:05 p.m. CDT.

Angel Maturino Resendiz has hours left to live. Last Wednesday, a Houston judge ruled that Resendiz is mentally competent to be executed. Now the man linked to so many brutal murders is facing his own end

(AP) WEIMAR, Texas -- The railroad tracks that gave birth to this small South Texas town over a century ago more recently brought terror and horror. The gruesome slayings of a prominent minister and his wife at their home, and an equally violent murder of an elderly woman in her rural home a few miles away, are among at least 15 killings by the ruthless illegal immigrant known as the "Railroad Killer." Angel Maturino Resendiz, who hopped on freight trains and committed random acts of carnage around the nation that earned him a spot on the FBI's Ten Most...

(April 20, 2006)--Harris County prosecutors say next month's scheduled execution of Angel Maturino Resendiz has been delayed for more psychiatric testing. Maturino Resendiz is the 45-year-old Mexican drifter dubbed the "Railroad Killer." His execution has been moved from May 10 to June 27 to allow for the additional testing. The condemned serial killer's attorneys contend he's insane and ineligible for execution under a 2002 Supreme Court ruling. Earlier this month, they filed reports from two mental health experts who concluded Maturino Resendiz is delusional, schizophrenic and has an organic brain disorder. But prosecutors say Maturino Resendiz is sane and is...

(Feb. 26, 2006)--The court-appointed attorney who handled the death penalty appeal of condemned serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz is being criticized for filing a nearly identical appeal for another death row inmate. The Austin American-Statesman reported Sunday that Houston lawyer Leslie Ribnik wrote the virtually identical appeals for Maturino Resendiz and another condemned prisoner, Robert Gene Will. Except for different names, the first 20 pages of both appeals are identical, including the same capitalization error on page 17. The briefs, which center mostly on a single technical challenge to instructions given to Texas death-penalty juries, also give incorrect conviction dates...

On March 31, the International Court of Justice (ICJ), located in The Hague, ruled in favor of suit brought by the Mexican government against the United States regarding Mexican nationals currently sitting on death row.  If, like most Americans, you consider court rulings from The Hague about as relevant as the Eurovision song contest, consider the cases of two men, the first an American citizen, the second a Mexican. In 1992, a Mexican judge sentence[d] Chicago-born Alfonso Martin del Campo Dodd to 50 years in prison for the murder of his sister and her husband, despite the fact that the...

Death sentence upheld for 'Railroad Killer' BY MARK BABINECK Associated Press Writer HOUSTON - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Wednesday put confessed rail-riding serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz one step closer to getting his wish that he be executed as soon as possible. The state's highest criminal court, in a 7-2 decision, affirmed the Mexican drifter's May 2000 conviction and death sentence for the Dec. 17, 1998, rape-slaying of Dr. Claudia Benton, a Houston-area medical researcher. State District Judge William Harmon, who presided over the trial, said Wednesday Maturino Resendiz's appeals will continue unless he again asks to stop...