The Nueces County district attorney, Mark A. Gonzalez, has moved to withdraw the death warrant for John Henry Ramirez, convicted of a 2004 robbery-murder.
to allow Ramirez’s Baptist pastor to lay hands on him and pray with him as he was put to death, as the inmate had requested.The new issue is the prosecutor’s views on the death penalty — not Ramirez’s guilt or his desire for a pastor to attend to his execution.requesting the courts withdraw a previous order that set an Oct. 5 date for the execution, by lethal injection.
In the filing, Gonzalez said it was his “firm belief that the death penalty is unethical and should not be imposed on Mr. Ramirez or any other person” while Gonzalez is in office. He also asked for a recall of the death warrant signed by the county district clerk, authorizing the execution. Just days before this filing, a judge had set Ramirez’s execution date for Oct. 5, upon the request of a prosecutor in Gonzalez’s office. Gonzalez said an assistant district attorney in his office had been unaware of his position and did not consult him prior to moving forward on an execution date.Ramirez’s victim, Pablo Castro, was working the night shift at the Times Market convenience store on July 19, 2004, when Ramirez and an accomplice approached him with a knife.
Gonzalez, a Democrat and a criminal defense attorney who had styled himself “a Mexican biker lawyer covered in tattoos,” was elected district attorney in 2016, a sharp departure for his conservative-leaning district.
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