Mexican Human Rights Commission Gearing Up for Next Texas Execution Mexico Gulf Reporter
go to original March 25, 2014

Martha Llamas, mother of Ramiro Hernandez Llamas, holds a photograph of her son. (Getty Images)

For the second time in less than 90 days, Mexico is asking Texas state officials to halt the pending execution of one of its citizens.

Ramiro Hernández Llanas, 44, is scheduled to die in Huntsville on April 9. Prosecutors say that on Oct. 15, 1997, Hernández broke into the home of a rancher in remote Kerr County, Texas, killing the man and then tying up his wife and raping her. Hernández was the rancher's hired hand.

His bifurcated trial was moved to another county because of the intense feelings the case generated in the venue where events occurred. After convicting Hernández of murder and rape, a state court jury deliberated only a few minutes before sentencing him to death in the second phase.

Hernández is a Mexican citizen who was born and raised in Tamaulipas state, which borders Texas.

Raúl Plascencia Villanueva, the chairman of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), has written a letter to Texas Governor Rick Perry, asking him to commute the sentence or grant an indefinite stay while further litigation is undertaken on Hernández's behalf.

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