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Execution Dates for 2 Fort Worth Inmates on Death Row
The Associated Press
HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas prison officials have received court documents setting execution dates for two prisoners from the Fort Worth area, bringing to eight the number of inmates set for lethal injection in the coming months.
Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jeremy Desel says Juan Segundo is set to die Oct. 10 for the rape-slaying of an 11-year-old Fort Worth girl in 1986. He was arrested nearly 19 years later after a DNA match tied him to the slaying of Vanessa Villa. He also was tied to the rape-slayings of two women in the Fort Worth area in 1994 and 1995.
Also, Kwame Rockwell is facing execution Oct. 24 for the 2010 killing of 22-year-old Fort Worth convenience store clerk Daniel Rojas during a robbery. A bread deliveryman also was killed.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-sta...s-on-death-row
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This is a good article that comes from one of the homicide detectives that worked on Villa's murder case. http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/caught-cold-6405623
Things of note from this article.
1. Segundo went to Villa's wake and counseled her mother.
2. Segundo is suspected of 6 murders.
3. Segundo was so trusted by Villa's mother that when she was asked if he could've done it she flatty denied that he could've done it.
What a winner Segundo is.
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If they had only kept him in prison none of these other women would have been murdered. Paroled after 1 year. How pathetic.
In 1987, he broke into a woman's house and began fondling her as she slept. When the woman awoke, she saw Segundo kneeling beside her bed with his pants and underwear pulled down. Segundo covered her mouth to keep her from screaming and began punching her in the face, but the victim's daughter heard the commotion and ran into the room, scaring Segundo off. But the woman recognized him as someone she had worked with. Segundo agreed to a plea bargain in that case and was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was paroled a year later.
Besides Villa, DNA has linked him to the murders of two women who were both in their early 30s. One was found facedown in a drainage ditch in 1994. The other, a mother of three, was found the next year in Fort Worth's Buck Sansom Park. One victim was black, one was white and one Hispanic.
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At the time early release was common in Texas becsuse of over crowing and prison population caps.
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Would y’all class Segundo as a serial killer? He certainly fits that bill from what I know.
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Definitely. In addition to the murder he is on death row for, DNA proves he killed 2 other women. He is a serial killer and sexual predator. A poster boy for the death penalty just like Anthony Shore, Carlton Gary, Rosendo Rodriguez, and Danny Bible.
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Does anyone know the exact date of the third killing that Segundo was linked to, and/or the name of the victim? There's Villa and Badillo but I can't find anything at all on the third and I don't have a single lead.
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Death Watch: Segundo Awaits 5th Circuit
Ten executions have been carried out this year in Texas, and if the state has its way, there'll be another six before the new year – more than double 2017's total. Tarrant County native Juan Segundo is in line as No. 11, on Wednesday, Oct. 10, though his recently appointed counsel is still working on his case.
Segundo was sentenced to death in 2006 for the 1986 rape and murder of 11-year-old Vanessa Villa. The case went cold until 2005, when old evidence was entered into the DNA database CODIS and matched with Segundo's. (The state also connected him to the 1995 rape and murder of Maria Navarro; several women accused him of attempted sexual assault.) As a child, Segundo lived in extreme poverty with an unstable family. He allegedly suffered a traumatic head injury as a toddler, but was never taken to a doctor. During his trial's punishment stage, a neuropsychologist testified that Segundo's "extensive history of inhalant abuse" and failure to have a "stimulating background upbringing" may have caused "significant brain dysfunction."
In May, Segundo's lawyers filed a request for relief in federal court (still pending), arguing that Segundo's right to adequate and professional representation was "undermined at every stage of litigation." Among other violations, Segundo's trial attorneys referred to him as "Speedy Gonzalez," a "tard," and a "dumb bastard," and ignored requests from their experts for information to support Segundo's intellectual disability. The filing also asserts Segundo's trial counsel and the courts relied on unscientific "Briseno factors" (guidelines based in part on the fictional Lennie from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men) to assess Segundo, a method rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court last year in Moore v. Texas. Lastly, the appeal argues Segundo was improperly denied funds to investigate his claims of intellectual disability, creating "a procedural defect in the proceedings" that was "exacerbated by the deprivation" of reliable counsel through every stage of litigation.
Segundo also requested a stay of execution on July 27. Two months later, the district court denied a certificate of appealability and transferred both of his requests to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has yet to rule.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news...s-5th-circuit/
SCOTUS denied cert while Moore was being decided. Other cases were held up until Moore was decided. Moore won't save him.
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CCA stayed it last night, as expected.
http://www.search.txcourts.gov/Searc...6-7b6aacca5d2e
I hope someone takes a case like this to the new USSC and overturns Atkins.
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This was expected? On what grounds? Retardation?