Freddie Webb was executed by the State of Texas for a kidnapping, robbery and murder
According to court documents Freddie Webb would abduct Leopoldo and Elizabeth Cantu from a car wash and drove them to the restaurant that they owned. Once at the restaurant he would rob the store and leave Elizabeth inside tied up. Leopoldo Cantu was brought to a remote location and shot and killed
Freddie Webb would be arrested, convicted and sentenced to death
Freddie Webb would be executed by lethal injection on March 31 1994
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Freddie Webb was executed on March 31 1994
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Freddie Webb was executed by lethal injection
Freddie Webb Case
A former construction worker was executed by injection early Thursday for the 1985 slaying of a man who was abducted from a restaurant during a holdup.
Freddie Webb, 33, went to his death hours after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal.
Webb was convicted of murdering Leopoldo Cantu, a Corpus Christi man who shot after a robbery at a restaurant where his wife worked. At the time, Webb was on parole for raping a child.
″He’s just a predator,″ said Bill May, the former prosecutor who sent Webb to death row but personally opposes the death penalty. ″Sometimes you have to protect yourself from predators, even though it’s not pleasant.″
Webb’s lawyers contended the jury that sentenced him was given improper instructions and that his original appeal was mishandled by his attorneys at the time.
Cantu, 26, and his wife, Elizabeth, were abducted at a car wash after closing the restaurant. They were taken back to the restaurant, where Mrs. Cantu was forced to open the safe and surrender the day’s receipts. The amount was not disclosed.
She was tied up with an electrical cord and left inside the building.
Webb and his accomplice, Larry Alfred, then drove her husband to an isolated area and shot him to death.
Webb was arrested more than three months later after a robbery at a convenience store. The gun used was traced to the slaying. Cantu’s wife identified Webb, and Webb’s fingerprint was found on an adding machine.
Webb told a judge several years ago that he was innocent and added: ″I stand on behalf of the death row population and on behalf of murderers who have been convicted when I say (the death penalty) is no deterrent.″
Alfred is serving a life sentence.
Webb was the 230th person nationwide, and the 73rd in Texas, to be executed since the Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume. Texas’ total is by far the highest in the nation.