http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/15/us-execution-texas-idUSBRE8AE07720121115
Texas executes man who abducted, murdered single mother
Wed Nov 14, 2012
AUSTIN, Tex. (Reuters) - Texas on Wednesday executed a San Antonio man
convicted of kidnapping a single mother from a bus stop, then robbing,
raping and murdering her.
Ramon Torres Hernandez, 41, was convicted in the 2001 death of
37-year-old Rosa Maria Rosado.
Hernandez was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 6:38 p.m. local
time at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas, according to the
state department of corrections. He was the 39th execution in the
United States this year and the 14th in Texas.
"I'm sorry for putting you through all of this. Tell everyone I love
them," Hernandez said, as part of a brief final statement, according
to Jason Clark, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice.
"To everybody back on the row, I know you're going through a lot over
there. Keep fighting, don't give up, everybody," he quoted Hernandez
as saying.
Hernandez had also been linked to the rapes and murders of two teenage
girls in the 1990s and was considered the prime suspect in the
killings of two others in a nearby county.
A DNA test linked Hernandez to the similar rape and murder of cousins
Sarah Gonzales, 13, and Priscilla Almares, 12, in 1994, according to
an account by the Texas Attorney General's Office.
According to recent news reports, officials in Bandera County, south
of San Antonio, also considered him a prime suspect in the deaths of
teens Jennifer Taylor and Laura Gamez, who disappeared a month before
Gonzales and Almares.
Hernandez was one of three people convicted in the attack on Rosado,
the crime for which he was executed.
Also involved were Santos Minjarez, who was sentenced to death but
died of an illness on death row in January 2012. Hernandez's
girlfriend, Asel Abdygapparova, 42, was sentenced to life in prison
and will be eligible for parole in 2045.
In March 2001, the three were riding in a car when Rosado was abducted
at a bus stop and yanked inside the car, according to an account by
the Texas Attorney General's Office. The men tried to take her purse
and demanded money, but she insisted she had none, according to the
attorney general's account.
Rosado was taken to a motel, where she was raped and strangled to
death, according to the account. During the ordeal, Abdygapparova, a
master's student from Kazakhstan, was sent to a nearby store to buy a
shovel, state officials said.
Five days later, Abdygapparova told police what had happened and led
them to the bus stop, the motel and to Rosado's body - which was
buried in a shallow grave near the University of Texas-San Antonio
campus.
Abdygapparova, who was five months pregnant with Hernandez's child at
the time of the killing, told authorities she feared for her life and
was coerced into taking part. She said she did not know which man had
killed Rosado, the attorney general's office said.
Hernandez confessed to witnessing the attack but said Minjarez was the
killer.
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