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Gangster cries like a little biatch at sentencing. Rage..

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alkemyst said:
Sad you have to bring a racial thing into it.
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Jeeebus said:
I love how the reporter, in describing the crime of the guy being shot to death, has to add: "he wasn't carrying any money."

Oh, ok, now I'm outraged. If he had $100 on him at the time, then it would have been a successful robbery and so at least the murder would be justified, right? Good job, news man.
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It illustrates the point that this was a cold-blooded killing, not a "robbery".
 
pete6032 said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Cantu
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Factually proven innocent? No.

David Garza, Cantu's codefendant, has since admitted involvement in the burglary, assault and murder. He says he did go inside the house with another boy, did participate in the robbery, and saw the murder take place, but that his accomplice was not Ruben Cantu.

According to Garza, the real murderer was an elementary school friend of Cantu. This person, whose only criminal record is a single misdemeanor domestic assault conviction, denied that he had anything to do with the robbery and murder when he was interviewed by the Houston Chronicle in 2005.[2]

In 2006 Reed said that she was "deeply skeptical" of someone who recants testimony they gave twenty years previously but agreed that Cantu should not have been prosecuted as a death penalty case.[7]


In 2007 Reed issued a report finding that Ruben Cantu was guilty of the crime for which Texas executed him in 1993
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At a time when the San Antonio Police Department was embroiled in scandal, with vigilantes and drug-dealing officers well known to the community, Cantu was stealing cars and dodging the police. His older brothers had been arrested on drug and theft charges, but despite several run-ins with the police, Ruben was never convicted of anything before the November 1984 crime that led to his execution.[1]

About four months after the robbery-murder, Cantu shot Joe De La Luz, an off-duty, plainclothes police officer, at the Scabaroo Lounge, a bar near Cantu's home.
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Bruce Baxter, the prosecutor who handled Gomez's murder case, said he could believe that Moreno lied under the circumstances.
However, Baxter, now an attorney in Washington state, said he privately interviewed Moreno before the trial in 1985 to try to determine whether he had made the ID just to please police. At the time, Baxter said he believed Moreno was sincere.


http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Did-Texas-execute-an-innocent-man-1559704.php
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http://www.skepticaljuror.com/2010/05/case-of-ruben-cantu.html

Finally, I am now ready to publish my Actual Innocence scorecard for Ruben Cantu. I score him at 43. I think it is more likely that not that he killed Pedro Gomez and shot Juan Moreno.
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