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Nicolas Cantu was born in Mexico City, Mexico [c] [1] and raised in Austin, Texas. He is of Mexican descent; both of his parents are from Mexico City. [5] [10] [11] His father is a lawyer and his mother is a social worker. [12] Cantu is the second of three sons, having two brothers, Sebastian and Matias. [13]
Scruggs was detained for alleged possession of a controlled substance, according to prison records. Scruggs died from a seizure secondary to left frontal lobectomy due to a traumatic brain injury (from a motor vehicle accident a decade prior), according to the medical examiner. Jail or Agency: St. Louis County - Dept. of Justice Services; State ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas since 2020.To date, 24 people have been executed since 2020. All of the people during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas.
Cantu had asked in his clemency petition for a hearing and either a commutation to a life sentence or a 120-day reprieve. CNN’s Ed Lavandera and Ashley Killough reported from Huntsville, Texas ...
Ruben Montoya Cantu (December 5, 1966 – August 24, 1993) was an American murderer who was executed for a murder he committed when he was 17 years old. During the years following the conviction, the surviving victim, the co-defendant, the district attorney, and the jury forewoman made public statements that cast doubt on Cantu's guilty verdict.
Cantu, now 50, is a Texas man who was convicted for the double homicide of his cousin James Mosqueda and Mosqueda’s fiancée, Amy Kitchen. The murders occurred in 2000, and in a 2001 trial ...
In the days and hours before Ivan Cantu is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday evening, calls by a U.S. lawmaker, activists and former jurors for Gov. Greg Abbott to halt the execution ...
However, in the early 1960s Cantu became involved in selling drugs, which led to his arrest during a heroin run to Monterrey, Mexico in 1963. After his arrest, Cantu spent six years in federal prison at Terre Haute, Indiana. During his time in prison, Puerto Rican nationalists influenced Cantu in becoming a radical Chicano activist.