Carlos Granados was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of three year old Anthony Jiminez
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A New York man convicted of the fatal stabbing of his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son was executed this evening.
In a brief final statement, Carlos Granados, 36, expressed love to his family and others and addressed Katherine Jiminez, his former girlfriend and the mother of the child he killed more than eight years ago. “Kathy, you know I never meant to hurt you,” he told the woman who also suffered 27 stab wounds during the attack. “I gave you everything and that’s what made me so angry. But I never meant to hurt you. I’m sorry.” She stood up against the death chamber window as he made his statement, but Granados never looked at her.
At 6:21 p.m., seven minutes after the lethal drugs began flowing, he was pronounced dead. He was the first person to be executed this year in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state, where 24 convicted killers were put to death last year and where more than a dozen already are scheduled to die in 2007. Four more executions are set for this month.
Granados was convicted of using a large kitchen knife to kill Anthony Jiminez during a stabbing frenzy. His mother survived the 1998 attack at her apartment in Georgetown, just north of Austin. She testified against Granados at his capital murder trial. “With everything coming up and all the emotions, the varied emotions, sometimes you try to put things away, especially the hurtful things — the screams, the last moments,” she said in an interview on Tuesday. “And right now, all of it has come up again and it’s brought a lot of those emotions back — the anger, the why, the what-if. “Do I want the courts to stop it? Absolutely not. It needs to happen.”
The U.S. Supreme Court last month refused to review Granados’ case. Lawyers this week went to the state courts, arguing Granados had poor legal help from a state-appointed attorney who filed only a meager two-page appeal in the critical early stage of his appeals. “Mr. Granados never received even the pretense of a meaningful state court review of his conviction or sentence,” his lawyers said in a request that sought a reprieve from the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. The court late Wednesday morning rejected the appeal.
Prosecutors said Granados had excellent legal help, but the evidence against the Manhattan native was strong, especially with the victim’s mother testifying. “There’s certainly no question of guilt in this particular case,” said John Bradley, the Williamson County district attorney.
Jiminez’s relatives called police after she failed to drop off her son at her grandmother’s house and report for work. Officers who went to her apartment found it locked from the inside and summoned firefighters to break it open. Inside, authorities found Granados, his wrists slashed, holding a bloody knife and urging them to “Shoot me, just shoot me.” The child was dead and his mother near death.
Jiminez, who has remarried and now has two small children, said she willed herself to keep living. “I’m going to survive so this person doesn’t get away with this, and really for the sake of my son,” she said in an interview this week. “I knew he wasn’t alive.”
Testimony showed the stabbings were the result of an escalating argument after Granados refused his girlfriend’s order to leave. The pair had dated before she married and had Anthony. When her marriage ended, they began seeing each other again and he moved from New York to Texas to be with her.
At his trial, prosecutors showed Granados, who had no previous prison record, did have a history of violence, including assaulting a former girlfriend, biting and bruising a 3-year-old boy, and assaulting a relative with a beer bottle.
Scheduled for execution next in Texas is Johnathan Moore, 32, set to die Jan. 17 for the 1995 fatal shooting of Fabian Dominguez, a San Antonio police officer.
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