John Ramirez was hours away from his execution when he received a temporary reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court last September. His execution is now set for October, despite the local district attorney's attempt to have the execution canceled.
Nueces County District Attorney Mark Gonzalez, seen at the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival, filed a motion along with John Ramirez’s defense attorney to withdraw the prisoner’s death warrant., our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
Along with Ramirez’s defense attorney, he sought to withdraw the new execution date two days after it was requested. Gonzalez argued that, as the county’s elected prosecutor, he has the authority to request the cancellation. Gonzalez has been district attorney since 2016, and his office previously requested execution dates for Ramirez three times — in 2017, 2020 and 2021. The prosecutor’s office asked to halt the 2020 date because of the pandemic, and the other two were stopped by appeals courts.
Ramirez, 37, was sentenced to death in Corpus Christi for the robbery and murder of store clerk Pablo Castro in 2004. Court records state Ramirez stabbed Castro 29 times during a robbery spree to get drug money with two women. Castro had $1.25 on him.the prison system's refusal to allow a pastor to touch and pray over him as he was executed.
Execution dates have been scheduled and withdrawn based on local prosecutors’ requests in the past, for things like. In Ramirez’s case, however, the Texas Attorney General’s Office and the victim’s family also weighed in.
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