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| Confessed Murdered Executed in Texas |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 12/16/2002 |
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A man who confessed to the 1994 shooting deaths of his common-law wife and his brother, whom he suspected of having an affair, was executed last week. Leonard Rojas, 52, gave no final statement before he was injected with the lethal drugs. Rojas said from death row last month that he had no regrets about shooting 34-year-old Jo Ann Reed between the eyes and then turning the gun on his 43-year-old brother David Rojas. The elder Rojas, who was sentenced to death in 1996, had claimed his wife and brother were having an affair and attempting to drug him to death. Those claims never were proven, said Johnson County assistant district attorney David Vernon. The slayings took place in the mobile home the trio shared in Alvarado, near Forth Worth. Rojas was the 32nd person executed in Texas this year. He is the 62nd condemned inmate to be put to death this year in the United States and the 811th overall since America resumed executions on January 17, 1977. |
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