Facts of the Crime:
Jose Rivera was convicted of the July 9, 1993 sexual assault and strangulation of three-year-old Luis Daniel Blanco in Brownsville. The young victim was led to Lincoln Park by a neighbor, where he was sexually assaulted by Rivera and stangled with the elastic from his own underwear. His nude body was found floating in a park pond the next day.
Rivera was sentenced to death in Cameron County in June 1994.
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