On
this date, October 2, 2002, a Prison Killer and Pedophile by the name of Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco was executed by
lethal injection in Florida.
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Rigoberto Sanchez-Velasco
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INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/US/sanchez804.htm
Summary: A Cuban immigrant who came to Florida
in the 1980 Mariel boatlift, Sanchez-Velasco was convicted of the 1986 rape and
murder of 11-year-old Katixa "Kathy" Ecenarro, the daughter of his
live-in girlfriend. He confessed to the crime but later recanted. In 1995, he
stabbed to death two of his fellow Death Row inmates, Edward Kaprat and Charles
Street, and was given two 15-year sentences for the killings. Sanchez-Velasco
had been trying since 1994 to drop his appeals and quicken the pace of his
execution. After the execution, Sanchez-Velasco's attorney, Craig DeThomasis of
Gainesville, presented reporters with a statement Sanchez-Velasco had written
that morning - a statement in which he denied killing Ecenarro but admitted
committing other murders, an apparent reference to the two 1995 prison
killings.
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