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| Texas executes man who said he drank victim's blood |
| 2016-04-08 |
| [CBSNEWS] -A South Texas man was executed Wednesday forthe 1998 slaying of a 12-year-old boy whose blood the convicted killer said he drank after beating the seventh-grader with a pipe and slitting his throat. Pablo Lucio Vasquez told police he was drunk and high when voices convinced him to kill David Cardenas in Donna, a Texas border town about 225 miles south of San Antonio. He also told detectives in a videotaped statement that he drank some of the boy's blood. Asked by the warden if he had a final statement, Vasquez, 38, turned to look through a window where four of his victim's relatives watched and told them he was sorry. "This is the only way that I can be forgiven," he said. "You got your justice right here." Then as the lethal dose of pentobarbital began taking effect, he said he was a little dizzy. "See you on the other side," he said, raising his head off the gurney pillow and looking toward a window where two of his sisters, a brother-in-law and a cousin watched. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Sad Panda, what do you think about this tragedy? |
| Posted by: gorb 2016-04-08 23:29 |
| #2 Yes, the unmistakable cure for recidivism. Also a historically under-rated enabler for population control. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-04-08 09:14 |
| #1 Bet he won't do it again. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-04-08 09:10 |