Ramiro Gonzales was executed by lethal injection Wednesday after Texas’s Board of Parole and Pardons unanimously voted Monday to deny his clemency petition.
Ramiro Gonzales was executed by lethal injection Wednesday after Texas’s Board of Parole and Pardons unanimously voted Monday to deny his clemency petition.After several attempts by his supporters to highlight what they described as a transformation behind bars, Ramiro Gonzales was executed by Texas officials on Wednesday.
His time of death was 6:50 p.m.The state’s Board of Parole and Pardons unanimously voted on Monday to deny Gonzales’s clemency petition in a case that has highlighted a contentious aspect of the Texas capital punishment system, which requires jurors to consider a defendant’s “future dangerousness” to society. Attorneys for Gonzales, who killed a woman in 2001, argued that their client did not meet the criteria and “in fact actively contributes to prison society in exceptional ways.” “Ramiro knew he took something from this world he could never give back,” his attorneys wrote in a statement shortly after the execution. “He lived with that shame every day, and it shaped the person he worked so hard to become. If this country’s legal system was intended to encourage rehabilitation, he would be an exemplar.”in 2022 to atone for his crime — a petition Texas denied. His case involved a recanted statement from a cellmate and a reversal from a psychiatrist whose testimony helped send him to death row.
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