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A Texas man convicted of the 2004 robbery and murder of a Corpus Christi store clerk is scheduled to be executed today.\u00a0 John Ramirez won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling<\/a> last March requiring states to accommodate condemned murderers’ requests to have their faith leaders pray and hold their hands in the execution chamber.\u00a0 The Associated Press reports<\/a> that the Texas Board of Pardons unanimously declined to commute Ramirez’s death sentence on Monday.\u00a0 During a three-day drug binge, Ramirez and two female accomplices were looking for someone to rob in order to buy more drugs.\u00a0 They spotted store clerk Pablo Castro emptying garbage in a convenience store parking lot and attacked him.\u00a0 Ramirez stabbed Castro 29 times, then took $1.25 from the dead man’s pocket.\u00a0 Nearby witnesses saw the entire incident.\u00a0 Later, Ramirez held a knife to the throat of a young mother at a drive through and stole her purse and tried to rob anther woman at another drive through, who managed to escape.\u00a0 CJLF filed argument in Ramirez v. Collier<\/strong>, urging the court to restrict civil lawsuits of this kind unless the plaintiff can show great and immediate, irreparable injury.\u00a0 The Foundation’s brief is available here<\/a>.\u00a0 Update<\/strong>:\u00a0 Ramirez was pronounced dead at 6:41 PM Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Texas man convicted of the 2004 robbery and murder of a Corpus Christi store clerk is scheduled to be executed today.\u00a0 John Ramirez won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last March requiring states to accommodate condemned murderers’ requests to have their faith leaders pray and hold their hands in the execution chamber.\u00a0 The Associated Press reports that the Texas Board of Pardons unanimously declined to commute Ramirez’s death sentence on Monday.\u00a0 During a three-day drug binge, Ramirez and two female accomplices were looking for someone to rob in order to buy more drugs.\u00a0 They spotted store clerk Pablo Castro emptying garbage in a convenience store parking lot and attacked him.\u00a0 Ramirez stabbed Castro 29 times, then took $1.25 from the dead man’s pocket.\u00a0 Nearby witnesses saw the entire incident.\u00a0 Later, Ramirez held a knife to the throat of a young mother at a drive through and stole her purse and tried to rob anther woman at another drive through, who managed to escape.\u00a0 CJLF filed argument in Ramirez v. Collier, urging the court to restrict civil lawsuits of this kind unless the plaintiff can show great and immediate, irreparable injury.\u00a0 The Foundation’s brief is available here.\u00a0 Update:\u00a0 Ramirez was pronounced dead at 6:41 PM Wednesday night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-death-penalty","category-u-s-supreme-court"],"yoast_head":"\nMurderer Who Won SCOTUS Spiritual Advisor Ruling Faces Execution - Crime & Consequences<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crimeandconsequences.blog\/?p=7705\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Murderer Who Won SCOTUS Spiritual Advisor Ruling Faces Execution - Crime & Consequences\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Texas man convicted of the 2004 robbery and murder of a Corpus Christi store clerk is scheduled to be executed today.\u00a0 John Ramirez won a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last March requiring states to accommodate condemned murderers’ requests to have their faith leaders pray and hold their hands in the execution chamber.\u00a0 The Associated Press reports that the Texas Board of Pardons unanimously declined to commute Ramirez’s death sentence on Monday.\u00a0 During a three-day drug binge, Ramirez and two female accomplices were looking for someone to rob in order to buy more drugs.\u00a0 They spotted store clerk Pablo Castro emptying garbage in a convenience store parking lot and attacked him.\u00a0 Ramirez stabbed Castro 29 times, then took $1.25 from the dead man’s pocket.\u00a0 Nearby witnesses saw the entire incident.\u00a0 Later, Ramirez held a knife to the throat of a young mother at a drive through and stole her purse and tried to rob anther woman at another drive through, who managed to escape.\u00a0 CJLF filed argument in Ramirez v. 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