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Good riddance...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ksat/20050818/lo_ksat/2887880
A Bexar County jury on Thursday night sentenced a man to die by lethal injection for the deaths of his former supervisor and a woman.
Jurors deliberated for 6½ hours before deciding that capital punishment was appropriate punishment for Noah Espada, who was found guilty last week of killing Luke Scott and Sandra Ramos.
Scott was Espada's former boss at Polly Esther's, a River Walk night club. Prosecutors contend that Espada shot and killed Scott out of revenge after Scott fired him.
Ramos, a neighbor of Scott's, was bound and suffocated after Espada mistakenly broke into her apartment, thinking it was Scott's.
Espada sat motionless when the judge read the jury's decision, but the defendant broke down in tears when he addressed the court.
"No matter what happens, I'll never forget what I did," Espada said. "As a matter of fact, I hate myself the same way that you all hate me."
The families of both victims said that although Espada deserved the death penalty, the punishment does little to ease their pain.
"We're here because of the decisions that you made," Alisha Scott-Aboud, Scott's mother, said to Espada during a victim's impact statement. "And the decisions that you made for my son's life, and for Sandra's life."
"My daughter is gone and will never come back," Julio Ramos, the father of Sandra Ramos, said to reporters after the sentencing. "Perhaps, I may see her again."
The families of the two victims joined together to grieve following the sentencing.
Good riddance...
Scott was Espada's former boss at Polly Esther's
I knew him from the gym...and from Polly Ester's when we used to go there all of the time. Such a super-nice guy (and a hottie).
I hope Espada burns in .
texas is too gung ho on the death penalty. It should be reserved for the most brutal murderers....like the BTK Killer and the last few guys that recently raped and bludgeoned children in Idaho and Florida. Sounds like this guy Espada just snapped. He's still a murderer and should spend his life behind bars, but the death penalty is too much.
Can I push the plunger?
Give me a in break.......It should be reserved for the most brutal murderers....like the BTK Killer and the last few guys that recently raped and bludgeoned children in Idaho and Florida. Sounds like this guy Espada just snapped. He's still a murderer and should spend his life behind bars, but the death penalty is too much
You murder someone you get the death penatly.
Dont give us that soft hearted bull ....
He murdered the lady by mistaken iden y and then went back and killed his bass a few days later. He deserves to die
Thats what got him death.
The DA has to prove he is a future danger to society to get the death penalty. The DA argued that he killed the lady then waited a day or two and killed his boss. So that showed he was a future danger b/c he killed again a day or so after the first time. If he killed the lady then got caught or turned himself in he probably wouldnt have gotten it.
Would you really give a how brutal the murder was if it was your family member who was mistakenly murdered?
First off, the "killed his bass" is a funny slip!
Second, he killed the lady not by mistaken iden y, but because he broke into her apartment by mistake. That shows he was willing to kill multiple times. Not someone that should EVER be allowed to be around another individual, even in prison.
FYI, life only means he would do about 40 years. So Espada woulda been out in his early 60s. Still alot of time but not his whole life
He broke into her apartment thinking it was his boss'. He killed her b/c he was scared she would call the cops and ruin his plan.
He then killed his boss a few days later b/c the boss fired him from Polly Esters.
there is such thing as jail time w/o possiblity of paroll.
Not in Texas, unless you count getting killed in prison.
Espada woulda been eligible in 40 years.
Why should the taxpayers have to pay for this moron's upkeep for the rest of his worthless life?
"We have the death penalty in Texas and we USE IT! That means if you come to Texas and kill someone, Texas will kill you back!" -- Ron White
Or someone you knew who was intentionally murdered?
The fact that he went back leaves UNREASONABLE DOUBT that he meant to do exactly what he ing did. No crime of passion, not under the influence of any mind-altering substances, not mentally incapacitated...but in absolute cold blood.
What makes Luke's life any less valuable than a woman or a child or anyone else? Because the cir stances didn't seem heinous enough? WTF?
Then save the taxpayers some money and give this guy his (heavy-duty) shoelaces back."No matter what happens, I'll never forget what I did," Espada said. "As a matter of fact, I hate myself the same way that you all hate me."
I agree, I think we keep alot of these guys on death row too long with all the appeals and too.
One of the sad, wierd, things about this is his family were missionaries.
They traveled to Mexico, Puerto Rico, ect preaching. Even Noah. He has even become a missionary of sorts in jail preaching to the inmates.
Nothing in his background would lead you to believe he was capable of something like this, e ially for such a stupid reason as getting fired from a bar back job
thanks did not know that.
Not according to the jail guards, from what I heard....
None of this means he is not capable of doing it again. What if he was to go back into society and someone pisses him off enough or gets fired from another job? too risky.
He gets an automatic appeal on a capital murder conviction
Right but it should not take 20 years to kill the guy, like some.
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