Rhino
06-27-2006, 09:13 AM
Lawyers for 'Railroad Killer' Seek Halt to Execution
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Attorneys for train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz were on a mission in the courts Tuesday to try to keep the man nicknamed the "Railroad Killer" from an evening trip to the Texas death chamber.
"It's hard to be optimistic when your client is scheduled to be executed," lead appeals lawyer Jack Zimmermann said. "In a neutral playing field, if this wasn't the railway killer, I think the courts would be more inclined to rule in our favor. I think they're concerned with public pressure."
Resendiz, who has been linked to 15 slayings across the nation, faced lethal injection for the stabbing and bludgeoning of Claudia Benton, 39. Benton was killed eight days before Christmas in 1998 in her home near Houston's world-renowned Texas Medical Center where she worked as a physician and researcher.
She is among eight slayings linked to Resendiz, 46, in Texas. Two more were tied to him in both Illinois and Florida, and one each in Kentucky, California and Georgia.
His spree in 1998 and into the summer of 1999 swept terror across Texas and then the nation, as authorities searched for an indiscriminate serial killer. The Border Patrol had picked up the Mexico native for illegal entry in early June 1999 near El Paso and released him back into Mexico, saying they were unaware Resendiz — who used numerous aliases — was on the FBI's Most Wanted list. He committed four slayings after his release........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201096,00.html
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Attorneys for train-hopping serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz were on a mission in the courts Tuesday to try to keep the man nicknamed the "Railroad Killer" from an evening trip to the Texas death chamber.
"It's hard to be optimistic when your client is scheduled to be executed," lead appeals lawyer Jack Zimmermann said. "In a neutral playing field, if this wasn't the railway killer, I think the courts would be more inclined to rule in our favor. I think they're concerned with public pressure."
Resendiz, who has been linked to 15 slayings across the nation, faced lethal injection for the stabbing and bludgeoning of Claudia Benton, 39. Benton was killed eight days before Christmas in 1998 in her home near Houston's world-renowned Texas Medical Center where she worked as a physician and researcher.
She is among eight slayings linked to Resendiz, 46, in Texas. Two more were tied to him in both Illinois and Florida, and one each in Kentucky, California and Georgia.
His spree in 1998 and into the summer of 1999 swept terror across Texas and then the nation, as authorities searched for an indiscriminate serial killer. The Border Patrol had picked up the Mexico native for illegal entry in early June 1999 near El Paso and released him back into Mexico, saying they were unaware Resendiz — who used numerous aliases — was on the FBI's Most Wanted list. He committed four slayings after his release........http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201096,00.html