Richard Vasquez (2012)
Facts of the Crime:
On March 5, 1998, during the daytime, in Corpus Christi, Vasquez struck four-year-old Miranda Lopez multiple times in the frontal part of her head with a closed fist. Vasquez then sent the child outside to play, Vasquez took a nap. Later, Vasquez called the child in from outside to brush her teeth. She got a small stool so she could reach the sink area and got on top of it then fell backwards onto her back. Vasquez went into the bathroom and saw the girl lying on her back and she was rushed to the hospital, where she died one day later.
Vasquez was sentenced to death in Nueces County in June 1999.
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