A Mexican man on death row in Texas was executed on Wednesday night, Nov. 8, in the murder of his 16-year-old cousin who was abducted from her family’s apartment and fatally beaten. Mexico’s President Enrique Nieto weighed in.
Rubén Ramírez Cárdenas, 47, was administered a lethal injection after several federal court appeals. He was convicted in the 1997 murder of Mayra Laguna, the 16-year-old.
