‘RAILROAD KILLER’ PUT TO DEATH IN TEXAS HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - A train-hopping serial killer linked to 15 murders asked his victim's families for forgiveness moments before his execution.
"I want to ask if it is in your heart to forgive me," Angel Maturino Resendiz said from his death chamber gurney Tuesday, looking toward victims' relatives. "You don't have to. I know I allowed the devil to rule my life."
"You did not deserve this," said Resendiz, 46, a Mexican drifter known as the "Railroad Killer." "I deserve what I am getting."
Resendiz, who had described himself as half-man, half-angel and who had told psychiatrists he couldn't be executed because he didn't believe he could die, received lethal injection for the slaying of physician Claudia Benton in 1998.
http://www.outinaustin.com/home/news.asp?articleid=294592005 GAO report:On April 7, 2005, we issued a report on criminal aliens that were incarcerated in federal and state prisons and local jails. Our report contained information on the number of criminal aliens incarcerated, their country of citizenship or country of birth, and the cost to incarcerate them.
Congress also requested that we provide information on the criminal history of aliens incarcerated in federal and state prisons or local jails who had entered the country illegally. For a population of aliens that entered the country illegally and were incarcerated in federal or state prisons or local jails, this report addresses the following questions:
(1) How many times have they been arrested?
(2) How many and what type of criminal offenses have they been arrested for?
(3) What states were they arrested in?
In our population
study of (Just) 55,322 illegal aliens rounded as about 5.8 out of every 1000 of the 10 million illegal estimated to be here, we found that they [U]were arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about 8 arrests per illegal alien. Nearly all had more than 1 arrest. Thirty-eight percent *38% or about 21,000) had between 2 and 5 arrests, 32 percent (about 18,000) had between 6 and 10 arrests, and 26 percent (about 15,000) had 11 or more arrests.
Most of the arrests occurred after 1990.
They were arrested for a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses, averaging about 13 offenses per illegal alien. One arrest incident may include multiple offenses, a fact that explains why there are nearly one and half times more offenses than arrests. Almost all of these illegal aliens were arrested for more than 1 offense.
Slightly more than half of the 55,322 illegal aliens had between 2 and 10 offenses.
About 45 percent of all offenses were drug or immigration offenses.
About 15 percent were property-related offenses such as burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and property damage.
About 12 percent were for violent offenses such as murder, robbery, assault, and sex-related crimes.
The balance 28% were arrested for such other offenses as traffic violations, including driving under the influence; fraud--including forgery and counterfeiting; weapons violations; and obstruction of justice.
Eighty percent (80%) of all arrests
occurred in three states--California, Texas, and Arizona. Specifically, about 58 percent of all arrests occurred in California, 14 percent in Texas, and 8 percent in Arizona.
http://www.gao.gov/docsearch/abstract.php?rptno=GAO-05-646Rhttp://www.gao.gov/htext/d05646r.htmlThere are about 156,000 non-citizen inmates in state,local and federal prisons in the United States. Many are simply waiting for deportation; others are there for felonies that include murder, rape, robbery and drug smuggling. That is based the now current estomate of 12 million illegals or about 1.3 in ever 100 illegals.
The nation has about 3.5 out every 100 of the U.S. population incarcerated at any given time at all levels local, state and federal. Of the 392 million, that would equate to about 13.72 million or 3.5 out of 100 not excluding illegals but including them, which accounts for about 1.3% of all illegals a lower rate for first generations illegals than the population as large.
However, Newland notes that this changes with the children of immigrants.
"While the foreign born have very low rates of incarceration compared to the U.S.-born people, the rate rises the longer someone has been in the United States and for the second generation, that is the children of immigrants, the rates of incarceration multiplied compared to their parents, the first generation of immigrants, in some cases by five, six, seven, eight times," she said. http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-06-29-voa44.cfmTUM DII DAI DII, TUM CHUA DAI CHUA!
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