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    Ivan Joe Gonzales - California Death Row


    Genevieve Moniqui "Genny" Rojas




    Facts of the Crime:

    In San Diego County, on August 9, 1998, a Chula Vista woman, Veronica Gonzales, joined her husband on death row for submerging their nearly four-year-old niece, Genny Rojas, in a bathtub of water so hot it peeled the skin from her body. "Oh, God, no!" Gonzales exclaimed when the verdict was read. She then covered her face with her hands and began sobbing. She was later taken out of the courtroom in a wheelchair.

    Gonzales' husband, Ivan, had previously been sentenced to death for the girl's murder. The couple are the first in California to face execution for the same crime. During her six-week trial, Veronica Gonzales testified that her husband was to blame for the murder, saying she suffered from battered woman's syndrome.

    Genny died on July 21, 1995, six months after she was sent to live with the Gonzaleses and their six children. Her mother was in drug rehabilitation and her father was in jail for child molestation.

    For more on Veronica Gonzales, see http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...les+california

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    THE PEOPLE V IVAN JOE GONZALES

    In today's opinions, the California Supreme Court AFFIRMED Gonzales' conviction and sentence of death on direct appeal.
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    Death sentence for "Ivan the Terrible" upheld

    The state Supreme Court unanimously upheld the death sentence of Ivan Gonzales, convicted more than a decade ago along with his wife of murdering his 4-year-old niece in what was described at the time as the worst case of child abuse in San Diego County history.

    Gonzales was sentenced to death in January 1998 for the prolonged torture and murder of Genny Rojas. The child was burned in a bathtub of scalding hot water so badly that her skin sloughed off. Gonzalez and his wife, Veronica, waited several hours before calling for help.

    The scalding was the last act in a horrific course of abuse the child suffered at the hands of the couple inside their two-bedroom Chula Vista apartment.

    Court testimony revealed Genny was repeatedly beaten, had her hair pulled out by the roots, was burned with a blow dryer on her arms and face, and was handcuffed and hung from a bar inside a closet for hours at a time.

    The details of her prolonged abuse was so graphic and disturbing it haunted investigators and jurors long after the trial was over.

    Ivan and Veronica Gonzales were tried separately and each sentenced to death, becoming the first married couple ever sent to Death Row in California history.

    Veronica Gonzales was sentenced to death in July 1998, and the Supreme Court upheld that decision in July 2011.

    In his appeal, Ivan Gonzales — who was referred to as “Ivan the Terrible” by the prosecutor and now Vista Superior Court Judge Dan Goldstein — raised numerous legal arguments about his trial. Associate Justice Carol Corrigan, writing for the court, rejected them all.

    “The evidence that Genny was extensively tortured over a period of time is overwhelming in this case,” Corrigan said. “Her injuries were such that an intent to inflict extreme and prolonged pain for a sadistic purpose was obvious.”

    Genny was living with Gonzales and his wife and their six children because her mother, Veronica’s sister, had lost custody because of a drug problem. She had lived with several relatives before ending up with the couple in February 1995. She was murdered five months later.

    This is the first appeal for Ivan Gonzales. He is also entitled to pursue appeals in federal court, and a second round of appeals in state court, all of which could take years.

    http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/...rrible-upheld/
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    I'll say it yet again--California has, on average, absolutely the most heinous capital cases in the United States. I really hope the November abolition referendum doesn't pass and that, eventually, some of these Golden State monsters can be sent on their merry way.

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    In today's United States Supreme Court orders, Gonzales' petition for writ of certiorari was DENIED.

    http://www.supremecourt.gov/Search.a...es/12-7056.htm

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    On November 2, 2012, Gonzales filed a habeas petition before the California Supreme Court.

    https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca....9RMCAgCg%3D%3D

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    You got that rite . Theses animals say that they don't want too feel any pain when there time comes and the courts say they shouldn't suffer in any way shape or form ! Well how about there victims they suffered pain beyond anything I could imagine just becuz these animals had a bad day well they should of thought about that when they did there crime !So these judges should stop all theses delay tactics there using and get on with the justice that theses animals deserve!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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