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| Victim's Mother Asks for Commutation |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 05/16/2002 |
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The mother of a convenience store clerk fatally stabbed during a 1993 robbery has asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to commute the killer's death sentence to life in prison. In a crime caught on surveillance camera videotape, Johnny Joe Martinez stabbed clerk Clay Peterson, 20, eight times. Martinez, now 29, is scheduled to die by lethal injection May 22. Peterson's mother, Lana Norris, said she wrote a letter to the board after meeting Martinez through a mediation program offered by the prison system. 'To execute Mr. Martinez would be a double crime against society,' she wrote, saying he has repented. She told the Corpus Christi Caller-Times that she and her family are following her son's belief in forgiveness, although she does not oppose the death penalty. The chairman of the Board of Pardons and Paroles said he does not know whether he will schedule a public hearing on the case. If not, members will vote by fax machine, as usual, on whether the death sentence should be carried out. |
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