Saldaño case: In November, they would execute the Cordovan sentenced to death in the United States for 24 years.

Víctor Saldaño, the Cordonian who was sentenced to death in 1995 in Texas (United States), would be executed in November 2019. According to the newspaper La Nación, a few days ago, his former lawyer in the United States l ". had informed that the second call his sentence will fail, so that the sentence will be enforced before the end of the year.

The only possibility to prevent the execution of Saldaño is that the United States complies with the favorable decision of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to remove it from the corridor. death, as we call it.

On the official page of the Texas Criminal Justice Department, only executions take place until September.

Saldaño is currently represented before the IACHR only by Cordova's lawyer, Juan Carlos Vega. Saldaño does not have a lawyer to sponsor him in the United States because he was charged with revoking the power of attorney that he had for "lack of trust".

The case

Víctor Saldaño had previously been twice sentenced to death by the Texas judge in the United States for the murder of Paul Ray King, a computer vendor murdered in November 1995, accompanied by a Mexican accomplice who had stolen a watch and 50 dollars. the suburb of the city of Plano.

One of these decisions was overturned by the US Supreme Court of Justice after proving that a racist test had been used to dictate punishment.

Saldaño is in the death row of a maximum security prison in Houston, under conditions that international human rights organizations call "torture."