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Thread: Joseph Christopher Garcia - Texas Execution - December 4, 2018

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    They should have gotten a death warrant when the 5th Circuit was done with him; could have wasted less time. No matter. Time has come for this case to end.

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    They got a warrant out for Newbury within two weeks of his last pre-warrant appeal being denied. Let’s hope they match that efficiency here.
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    Convicted killer from infamous “Texas 7” prison escape gets execution date

    By Keri Blakinger
    Chron.com

    On December 13, 2000, seven desperate inmates pulled off the biggest prison break-out in Texas history.

    They busted into the prison armory, stole weapons and stormed out of the Connally Unit in a prison truck. After orchestrating two robberies in Houston, they headed up to the Dallas area.

    There, on Christmas Eve, the men held up a store in Irving and made off with $70,000 and 44 guns. But on the way out, they ran into a cop.

    The escapees surrounded the Officer Aubrey Hawkins' patrol vehicle and shot him 11 times before running over his body with an SUV on the way out, according to court records.

    They were finally captured in Colorado a month later.

    One of the escapees killed himself before police could get him. But the rest were sent to death row, where three have since been executed.

    And now, a fourth, Joseph Garcia, has a date with death.

    The Bexar County killer - originally sent to prison for stabbing a man more than a dozen times - is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Aug. 30, according to Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jeremy Desel.

    "We are exploring several issues in this case that have not been considered by the courts in the past," said Mridula Raman, one of Garcia's attorneys. "We intend to raise these matters with the courts in the near future."

    For Toby Shook, a former prosecutor who handled the case, news of the date was a welcome relief.

    "It's been almost 18 years," Shook said. "It's satisfying that the actual sentence will be carried out."

    George Rivas, who was already serving 17 life sentences, was the ringleader who planned the escape from the unit just 60 miles south of San Antonio.

    With his six co-conspirators, Rivas masterminded the plan to overpower a supervisor and tie up civilian workers as hostages.

    Two of the gang dressed up as prison workers to sneak into the armory where they overpowered another employee and took control of the guard tower.

    Then, three of the men took the keys to a maintenance truck and loaded it with provisions and guns before they all fled the prison near Kenedy.

    After their murder and robbery spree across Texas, they holed up near Colorado Springs before police caught them.

    Larry Harper killed himself rather than face a return to Texas prisons. Rivas, Michael Rodriguez and Donald Newbury have already been executed, while Patrick Murphy and Randy Halprin remain on death row with Garcia.

    "He was one of the more violent ones during the prison breakout," Shook said. "The hostages described him as one of the more violent ones, who made threats and went out of his way to frighten them."

    At one point some of the other men said he was the one who'd fired the fatal shot, Shook said.

    In the years since his conviction, Garcia has raised a number of appeals based on claims of bad lawyering. His attorneys didn't specify what appeals they plan to raise moving forward.

    Texas has already executed six men this year. Including Garcia, another nine are scheduled to die - which means the state has exactly as many doses of its death drug left as it does executions on the calendar.

    https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...e-12942407.php
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    Good work on getting a warrant. The state reserved the entire month of August for one of the Texas Seven to remind everyone what will happen to you when you murder law enforcement. God bless the GREATEST State of Texas!

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    Good work Texas! August was looking pretty empty. I look forward to the death of this murderous two-timing turd.

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    His wife Joanna Garcia got told he was scheduled for execution late Thursday. She will go to extreme lengths for her husband to get a stay. Don't be surprised if the TCCA gets involved!

    However, the stock of Pentobarbital should be sufficient enough to carry out all scheduled executions into the fall.

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    They aren't gonna give a crap what his wife says, and the tcca won't issue a stay over LI claims.

    I wish Texas would value the lives of all citizens as much as police officers, and execute all murderers, but hey I'll take what I can get.

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    Prosecutors ask to push back death date for Texas 7 escapee, citing clerical error

    Citing a court's clerical mistake, prosecutors are asking for a new execution date for Texas 7 escapee Joseph Garcia.

    The condemned Dallas County killer was scheduled to die on Aug. 30, but now the state is asking for a Dec. 4 date after the clerk failed to issue a death warrant in time.

    "This statutory violation could result in a last-minute stay of execution," prosecutors wrote in a Tuesday court filing.

    State law requires that the court issue a death warrant within 10 days of greenlighting the execution date. But in Garcia's case, a Dallas County judge set the date on May 24, and the warrant wasn't issued until June 6 - three days late.

    Last February, a similar issue forced the state to grant a stay in the case of Tilon Carter, a Tarrant County death row prisoner. In that case, defense lawyers were notified a day late, and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ended up calling off the execution four days before he was set to die.

    Paperwork errors last year also forced the cancellation of execution dates for Larry Swearingen and Juan Castillo. In both cases, defense wasn't properly given the requisite 90-day notice.

    At the time of the notorious escape, Garcia was already in prison for a crime out of Bexar County, where he stabbed a man at least a dozen times.

    In December 2000, he was serving time at the Connally Unit when he teamed up with six fellow prisoners to plot the biggest break-out in Texas prison history.

    The men busted into the prison armory, stole weapons and stormed out of the unit in a prison truck. After orchestrating two robberies in Houston, they headed up to the Dallas area.

    There, on Christmas Eve, the men held up a store in Irving and made off with $70,000 and 44 guns. But on the way out, they ran into a cop.

    The escapees surrounded Officer Aubrey Hawkins' patrol vehicle and shot him 11 times before running over his body with an SUV on the way out, according to court records.

    They were captured in Colorado a month later. Though one of the men killed himself rather than surrender, the other six were captured and sent to death row. Three have since been executed.

    https://www.chron.com/news/houston-t...-13030605.php?

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    Fourth time in a year what are they doing?

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