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Juan Carlos Chavez (March 16, 1967 – February 12, 2014) was convicted of Ryce's murder. Chavez arrived in south Florida on a raft from Cuba with two others in 1991 and was working as a farmhand at the time of the murder. Little is known about his background or family, who remained in Cuba.
Juan Rodriguez Chavez (April 27, 1968 – April 22, 2003), known as The Thrill Killer, was an American serial killer and spree killer who, together with a teenage accomplice, killed eleven people in Dallas, Texas during a crime spree lasting from March to July 1995, shortly after being paroled from prison for a murder conviction.
The crime led to the passage of the Jimmy Ryce Act, which prescribes conditions for the involuntary civil commitment of sex offenders upon release from prison. Juan Carlos Chavez was executed by the state of Florida in 2014. [29] The site where Jimmy Ryce was dropped off by the school bus remains a memorial site in Redland to this day. [30]
The scheduled execution of a death row inmate whose case has drawn widespread scrutiny was halted by the Texas Supreme Court late Thursday night as doubts linger over whether his decades-old ...
The more than two-decade saga of one of El Paso's most disturbing slayings is set to come to an end with the execution of the man convicted in the murder of a 5-year-old girl abducted from a Walmart.
Three men still remain on federal death row after President Joe Biden issued sweeping commutations Monday to the sentences of 37 other prisoners who were awaiting execution.. Biden's decision is ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Texas between 2000 and 2009. All of the 248 people (246 males and 2 females) during this period were convicted of murder and have been executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas .
Aug. 6—A Gallina man's civil rights lawsuit against New Mexico State Police has been settled for $380,000. Juan Chavez said he suffered a rotator cuff tear and a ruptured right chest muscle ...