Carlos Santana Executed For Oliver Flores Murder

Carlos Santana and James Meanes were executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Oliver Flores

According to court documents Santana and James Meanes would rob an armored car and in the process would kill the guard Oliver Flores. The robbery netted over a million dollars

Carlos Santana and James Meanes would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death

Santana was executed by lethal injection on March 25 1993

James Meanes would be executed by lethal injection on December 15 1998

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When Was Carlos Santana Executed

Carlos Santana was executed on March 25 1993

When Was James Meanes Executed

James Meanes was executed on December 15 1998

Carlos Santana

A 40-year-old Dominican was executed by injection of lethal chemicals early today for killing an armored car guard in a $1.1 million holdup.

The convict, Carlos Santana, was put to death just before 3 A.M. despite pleas for mercy from officials in his homeland. The Supreme Court rejected two late-hour appeals, one just minutes before the execution.

“Love is the answer, not hatred,” he said in a final statement.

Mr. Santana’s execution was the 55th in Texas and the 196th nationwide since the Supreme Court allowed states to resume capital punishment in 1976. Texas’s total is the highest in the nation.

Mr. Santana, a former electrician, was condemned for his role in 1981 robbery of a Purolator Armored Inc. van in Houston.

Prosecutors said he had shot and killed a guard, Oliver Flores. Then Mr. Santana and James Meanes blew out the van’s windows with shotgun blasts, unlocked its doors, ordered another guard out of the vehicle and drove off.

The two men were arrested a quarter-mile away within an hour.

Both were convicted and sentenced to death. No execution date for Mr. Meanes has been set.

Carlos Santana‘s lawyers contended that jurors had not been allowed to consider that he had been abused as a child and had lived in extreme poverty.

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