The convicted killer of a Dallas police officer is trying to play the race card ahead of his Wednesday execution.
Wesley Ruiz is slated to be executed via lethal injection Wednesday evening for the 2007 slaying of Dallas Police Senior Corporal Mark Nix, according to a report.Ruiz, now 43, was engaged in a high-speed chase with police after his vehicle matched that of a murder suspect, the report noted.
The bullet struck Nix's badge, causing it to splinter, and fragments fatally severed an artery in the officer's neck. Ahead of Ruiz's scheduled execution, his attorneys have asked the United States Supreme Court to intervene and halt the execution because jurors in the Ruiz case utilized"overly racist" and"blatant anti-Hispanic stereotypes."
The Texas Attorney General’s Office filed their own documents with the Supreme Court Tuesday arguing that Ruiz's claim of juror bias is without merit, according to the report.
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