Pablo Vasquez, 38, is scheduled for an execution by lethal injection on Wednesday at 6 p.m for bludgeoning, slashing to death, mutilating the corpse and drinking the blood of a 12-year-old boy 18 years ago.
Vasquez’ lawyers have claimed their client had mental health problems and suffered from learning disabilities. A co-defendant, then 15, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on a murder conviction.
The crime scene
According to the authorities, Vasquez and co-defendant, Andy Chapa, met the 12-year-old boy at a local party in Donna, Texas, on April 18, 1998. The victim, David Cardenas, was hanging out with a group of teenagers and Vasquez when he was attacked.
Court papers revealed that the police received tips of a murder before founding the mutilated body of Cardenas. The 12-old-year boy was found by the police under metal sheets, without arms, no skin on the back and a hole in the back of his head. It took the jury about an hour to find Vasquez guilty.
According to the prosecutors, Vasquez hit Cardenas with a piece of pipe and a shovel, then, took a ring and a necklace from him and then buried the body behind a residence. In a taped confession, Vasquez admitted that voices from the devil urged him to kill and drink the blood of his victim.
“The body was also mutilated after death by some means that caused bones to shatter,” the court papers said.
Source: Reuters
Just shoot the guy, he’s a loss anyway. I see no reason to keep him alive after his nauseating crime, don’t care how stupid he is. All criminals can be considered mentally deficient for the most part anyway, no reason to exempt them from criminal justice. Of course the death penalty makes no moral sense. Still, housing and feeding this monster doesn’t either. Just ask the kid’s parents. It has occurred to me that such a person should be locked up and fed by his sympathizers, or shot by his victims. He might live forever, or not. It would rest on the charity of his fellow citizens. Hard to say how long this dude would make it.
The entire article is so poorly written it’s embarrassing to the writer and the web site.
The entire article is so poorly written it’s embarrassing to the writer and the web site.