RAMIRO GONZALES

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In 2001, 18-year-old Bridget Townsend was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by Ramiro Gonzalez. He confessed to the crimes but his death row sentence has been anything but straightforward.

After a stay of execution was granted earlier this week, Ramiro Gonzales’ case will now go back to the trial court in Medina County.

The jury sentenced Gonzales to death after a prosecution expert testified that he posed a future danger to society. The expert now says his data was wrong.

A federal judge has issued a temporary order telling Texas prison officials that they can carry out next week’s scheduled execution of a death row inmate only if they grant all of his religious accommodations, including allowing his spiritual adviser to hold his hand when he receives a lethal injection.

A Texas inmate who is set to be put to death in less than two weeks has asked that his execution be delayed so he can donate a kidney.

The Alamo City was one of six majority Latino cities chosen in July 2021 to partner with the Aspen Institute in an attempt to create stronger business “ecosystems.”

The unresolved legal debate over whether spiritual advisers can touch inmates and pray aloud as condemned individuals are being put to death has delayed the final two executions scheduled this year in Texas.