For the relatives of Alexandra Flores a five-year-old girl kidnapped at Walmart and murdered in 2001, in El Paso, Texas, justice was finally served. He was executed on Thursday, November 16 David Renteria, sentenced to death for the murder of the minor.

After more than twenty years of captivity, Renteria was given the lethal injection on Thursday evening at 7 p.m.; Shortly before the execution, the suspect made a statement saying: “I am sorry for all the wrong I have done. And those who asked for my death, who are about to kill me, I forgive them,” Telemundo reported.

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Renteria lived only 11 minutes after receiving the injection of pentobarbital, a powerful sedative. When he arrived at the execution chamber, the suspect “prayed, sang and asked for forgiveness,” the aforementioned publication reports.

The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has denied two defense requests to stay proceedings, according to the Dallas News.

The publication states that, according to the lawyers, he did not have access to the evidence in the case. And in a second request, they pointed out that the medication used for the execution had deteriorated and could cause “terror” and “pain” to the suspect.

Kidnapping and murder of a child under 5 years old

Alexandra Flores, 5, was Christmas shopping with her family at a Walmart store on November 18, 2001, when David Rentería took her, strangled and burned her. Flores’ body was located the next day after her disappearance 25 kilometers from where she was abducted, Univisión reported.

According to information published by Telemundo, Rentería was the eighth inmate executed in Texas so far this year; by 2023, there will be 23 executions in the United States. (JO)

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