A Texas man should be killed for 2004 strangulation and death of a young mother

Moises Sandoval Mendoza (File Photo- SP)

Houston: A Texas man is facing execution on Wednesday to strangle and stab a young Northern Texas mother over 20 years ago.
Sandoval Mendza Was condemned for 20 years of murder for March 2004 murder Rachel O’Neel TolsonProsecutors say that Mendoza took Tolson from her home in Farmersville, leaving her 6 -month -old daughter alone. The baby was found cold and wet but safe by Tolson’s mother the next day. Tolson’s body was found six days later near a creek.
The 41 -year -old Mendoza was scheduled to receive a deadly injection on Wednesday evening at the State Pentetory in Huntsville.
Evidence in the case of Mendoza revealed that he also burnt Tolson’s body to hide his fingers. According to investigators, dental records were used to identify it.
Mendoza lawyers have asked the US Supreme Court to prevent the prescribed execution, when the lower courts dismissed their petitions to stay first. The Texas Board of Perdons and Parols on Monday denied Mendoza’s request to reduce their death sentence for low fine.
In his petition before the Supreme Court, Mendoza lawyers said they were prevented from arguing by the lower courts that he was denied the effective assistance of the first lawyer in the appeal process.
Mendoza lawyers allege that a previous appeal attorney, as well as his test lawyer, a detention officer, had failed to challenge significant testimony by Robert Hinton. The testimony would be used by the prosecutors to convince the gamblers that a future threat to the Mendza society – the legal discovery required to secure the death penalty in Texas.
Mendoza lawyers accused the officer who worked in a county jail, where the prisoner was being held after his arrest, gave a false testimony that Mendoza started a fight with another prisoner. Mendoza lawyers say other prisoners now claim in an affidavit that they believe that the detention officials wanted him to start the fight, and later he was rewarded for it.
Mendoza lawyers said in their petition in the Supreme Court, “There is no doubt that the jury was listening. During her consultation, the jury specifically asked about the criminal acts of Mendoza while in jail, including the ‘attack on the other prisoner’,” the lawyers of Mendoza said in their petition in the Supreme Court. “As the jury notes suggest, there is a reasonable possibility that the trial council’s error in failing to investigate Hint’s testimony affected the result.”
But the Office of the Attorney General of Texas told the Supreme Court that the claim of ineffective assistance of Mendoza counsel has already been found to be “qualified and insensitive” by a lower federal court.
Even if the testimony of the detention officer was abolished, the jury hears enough evidence about the long history of the future dangerousness and violence of Mendoz, especially against women, including physical attack on their mother and sister and sexually assaulting a 14 -year -old girl, according to the Attorney General’s office.
The Attorney General’s office said in its petition, “Finally, public interest is overwhelmed against a migration, given the excessive delay in this two-decade-old case. The state and crime victims are ‘powerful and legitimate interest in punishing the guilty.”
Officials said that in the days before the murder, Mendoza attended a party in Tolson’s house in Farmersville, about 45 miles (72 km) in the northeast of Dallas. The day his body was found, Mendoza told a friend about the murder. The police and a friend named Mendoza were arrested.
Officials said that Mendoza confessed to the police, but could not give the detectives a reason for his actions. He told the investigators that he repeatedly suffocated Tolson, sexually assaulted him and pulled his body into a field, where he kneaded him again and then killed him around his neck. Later he took his body to a more far -flung place and burnt it.
If execution is performed, Mendoza will be the third prisoner historically in Texas, historically the country’s busiest capital state and 13th in the United States.
On Thursday, Alabama planned to execute James Osgood for the 2010 rape and killing a woman.