Texas Execution Information Center

Execution Report: Jesus Aguilar

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A jury convicted Aguilar of capital murder in April 1996. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence in June 1997. All of his subsequent appeals in state and federal court were denied.

Christopher Aguilar Quiroz was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to life in prison. He remains in custody as of this writing.

"I had nothing to do with this, Aguilar said in an interview from death row. "I was at home ... These people, they railroaded me left and right." Aguilar said that Leo Jr. was coached to testify against him and Quiroz. "They're killing me for something they know they lied about," he said.

"Are you all happy? You happy, chief?" Aguilar asked the victims' relatives who witnessed his execution. "I didn't kill your father," Aguilar told Annette Chavez's stepbrother, who he mistook for Leo Jr., who did not attend. The stepbrother answered back "I'm not Leo." The other family members requested that he not respond to Aguilar anymore. Aguilar continued addressing the family angrily, in a mixture of English and Spanish, and praising the Texas Syndicate prison gang he was a member of. The warden signaled the executioner to release the lethal injection. Aguilar was still talking when he lost consciousness. He was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m.

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By David Carson. Posted on 25 May 2006.
Sources: Texas Attorney General's office, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Associated Press, San Antonio Express-News, court documents.

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