Rodolfo Hernandez was executed by the State of Texas for the murder of Victor Cervan
According to court documents Rodolfo Hernandez would agree to bring five illegal immigrants to Texas. Once arriving in a remote part of Texas Hernandez would pull over saying he had car trouble. Hernandez would then order the five men out of the vehicle at gunpoint. He would shoot all five killing Victor Cervan
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Rodolfo Hernandez would be executed by lethal injection on April 30 2002
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Rodolfo Hernandez was executed on April 30 2002
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Texas authorities on Tuesday executed a one-legged murderer after denying him a request to be fitted with a prosthetic device so he could walk to his death “like a man”. Rodolfo Hernandez, 52, who received a last-minute temporary reprieve from execution last month so he could give police information about unsolved murders, was pushed into the death row prison in a wheelchair. Hernandez, whose diabetes led to the amputation of his left leg below the knee last summer, accused the state of refusing to fit him with an artificial leg because of the expense — $8,000. But prison officials said he could not use a prosthesis because of a recurring infection.
In a final statement as he was strapped to a gurney in the Texas death chamber to receive a lethal injection, Hernandez told several friends witnessing his death: “Everybody will be all right because y’all are going where I am going. Remember what I said — I want to see you all where I’m going. God, come and do your will. I’m ready, warden.”
Hernandez originally was set to die March 21 for the 1985 murder of a Mexican immigrant, but Texas Gov. Rick Perry gave him a stay just minutes before he was to get a lethal injection. Police in San Antonio, Texas requested the reprieve because Hernandez told them he had information about several unsolved murders that he had witnessed or participated in.
San Antonio Assistant Police Chief Manuel Longoria said on Tuesday that Hernandez had been linked to at least three killings, apart from the one for which he was convicted, dating back to 1980. “He made some statements to us, and identified some items at the crime scenes, that even the police were not aware of,” he said. After he told police about the crimes, a judge gave him a new execution date.
Hernandez was condemned to death for killing illegal immigrant Victor Manuel Serrano Cervan, 20, during a robbery in New Braunfels, Texas. Four other Mexicans traveling with Serrano were wounded in the attack.
Hernandez was the 10th person put to death this year in Texas, which leads the nation in capital punishment, and the 266th since the state resumed executions in 1982, six years after the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a national death penalty ban. Texas has eight executions scheduled in May, including one on Wednesday.
For his final meal, Hernandez requested two cheeseburgers, French fries, three fajita tacos, guacamole salad and two fried chicken breasts.