The back story on this. Something you will rarely see reported in the media.
In 2002, a crackhead named Abel Ochoa convinced his wife to give him $10 for crack. He smoked the drugs, and then contemplated the rest of his day, wanting more crack but knowing his wife would refuse him, to prevent him from smoking up every cent they possessed. He got his handgun, walked into the living room, and without warning or preamble, shot and killed his wife, her sister, their father, and Ochoa's own 9 month old child. He wounded another sister-in-law, and then saw his 7 year old daughter. She had just seen her mother, infant sister, grandfather and aunt murdered in cold blood. That child ran through the house, chased by Ochoa, who caught her and shot her four times, killing her. Ochoa then took his wife's purse and drove to an ATM machine to get cash for crack. Police found him there and arrested him.
He was sentenced to death in 2003. His last appeal was denied in 2018. He is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Thursday. He waited until November, and then filed a new appeal, claiming the Texas prisons denied him the opportunity to make a video with a TV station, which he planned to use for a clemency appeal. Waiting until the very last minute is a typical anti-death penalty maneuver, because any delay means the entire process has to be rescheduled.
The US Supreme Court is considering his last-minute petition for a stay.
Funny, but the media doesn't seem to have a single photo fo the victims.
