Texas Heads Toward Executions #501 and #502

EXECUTION WATCH: Unless a stay is issued, we’ll broadcast live: Tuesday, 16 June 2013, 6-7 PM Central Time; KPFT FM Houston 90.1 and Online…

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TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE: JOHN QUINTANILLA JR., convicted in a 2002 robbery in Victoria that turned deadly, He allegedly entered an amusement arcade with fall partner Jeffrey Bibb, demanded cash from a worker and ordered customers to lie on the floor. The murder victim, a former sheriff’s deputy, was shot three times when he stood up and grabbed Quintanilla’s rifle. Bibb and Quintanilla were charged with capital murder. Bibb received a lengthy prison sentence. Quintanilla’s execution would be the 501st in Texas in the modern death-penalty era.

NEXT SCHEDULED EXECUTION: On Thursday, Texas plans to kill VAUGHN ROSS. If it does, Execution Watch will air.

EXECUTION WATCH: Unless a stay is issued, we’ll broadcast live: Thursday, 18 June 2013, 6-7 PM Central Time; KPFT FM Houston 90.1 and Online…

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TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE: VAUGHN ROSS, A former architecture student at Texas Tech. He was condemned in the 2001 murders of an 18-year-old woman with whom he was feuding and a Texas Tech associate dean who happened to be with her. Ross’s attorneys argued that police contaminated DNA testing by mishandling it and suggested the slayings stemmed from Birdsall’s visits to “a high-crime area” to patronize prostitutes. Family members of the victims said the death sentence brought them little peace. Family members included Birdsall’s son, Nat, who opposes the death penalty and said his father did, too. Ross’s execution would be No. 502 in Texas in the modern death penalty era.

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