Wesley Ruiz faces execution on Wednesday, despite attempts to halt it amid arguments that jurors relied on 'overtly racist' and 'blatant anti-Hispanic stereotypes.'
A man convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer nearly 16 years ago faces execution on Wednesday.Wesley Ruiz, 43, is set to receive a lethal injection for the March 2007 killing of Dallas Police Department Senior Cpl. Mark Nix.
Ruiz's attorneys have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution, which was scheduled for Wednesday evening at the state penitentiary in Huntsville, Texas. They argue that jurors relied on "overtly racist" and "blatant anti-Hispanic stereotypes" in appraising whether Ruiz would be a future danger, an element needed to secure a death sentence in Texas. Ruiz is Hispanic.
Ruiz's attorneys have previously argued unsuccessfully that an expert witness for the prosecution falsely testified at Ruiz's 2008 trial about whether he would be a future danger. Defense attorneys alleged prosecutors knew about the false testimony and remained silent. In his ruling, Godbey said the expert testimony "was quite possibly harmless" and even if the testimony was corrected, it would not have changed the jury's decision to sentence Ruiz to death.
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