They could run Victor Saldaño in Texas in November …

Víctor Saldaño, the Filipino to whom North American justice condemned capital punishment and who, 24 years ago, is lodged in the "death row" of a Texas prison, could be executed in November this year, after exhausting appeals. This was confirmed by her mother, Lidia Guerrero, after visiting her son in Houston prison where she has been for more than two decades. His mother recalled that the only hope for Argentina was that US justice responds favorably to the indication of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), which considered in 2016 the two the proceedings in which Saldaño had been submitted, since in both cases there had been "multiple violations of the judicial guarantees of the defense". The IACHR also warned that the United States was "responsible" for these safeguards violations. The first conviction of Saldaño, including, was found to be racist by the United States Supreme Court itself, which had ordered a second trial; the result was identical to the first failure.

"Víctor told me that it was possible to run it in November," Guerrero told a Córdoba TV channel, with whom he spoke on his return from the states. -United. The woman traveled to see her son after Jonathan Miller, an American lawyer who had previously worked for Cordoba's defense with Argentine Juan Carlos Vega, had gone to Saldaño and had announced that the second appeal would be dismissed. Attorney Vega announced that he would not appeal the enforcement decision. "We will not seek clemency for the simple reason that it would be an act of recognizing that the United States has a fair trial, which is the only case in the history of the inter-American system of rights. of the man in whom an innocent person will be executed, "he told Cadena3.

Saldaño was convicted in 1996, accused of killing, in November of the previous year, Paul Ray King, an American citizen who had been robbed with a Mexican friend. The episode occurred on Thanksgiving night in Collin, a Texas city, one of the states in North America where the death penalty is applied. When King's body was found, a witness told the police that Saldaño had been involved in the crime. When they found it, Cordoba had in its possession the watch of the king and the weapon with which he had been shot.

The alleged accomplice of Saldaño was executed months after the episode, but his conviction began with a process of appeal delaying the application of the death penalty. In 2004, after the US Supreme Court had reviewed the court process and acknowledged that there was racism in the sentence (during this trial, a psychologist summoned as an expert by the Charge had ensured that Saldaño, being Latino, was more likely to reoffend or commit another crime), the Cordovan was subjected to a new process.

But at the beginning of the second trial, Saldaño had been on the death row for eight years, with an area reserved for people sentenced to death. These years of imprisonment have deteriorated her mental health. During the hearings, as is evident from the trial record, Saldaño behaved erratically: masturbating, swaying in the chair, laughing for no reason, reading magazines; During a break, he came to badure one of the guards who were watching him that he had committed other killings, although there was no evidence of these crimes. . Once again, the jury considered that Saldaño should be executed according to its "future dangerousness".