Death Row Prayer

Legal Docket

WORLD Radio

Government

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

John Henry Ramirez murdered Pablo Castro in 2004. He’s been on death row since 2013 and avoided execution twice before. The family of his victim are tired of the delays, but Ramirez asserts his rights under the US Constitution.Legal Docket is made possible in part by Samaritan Ministries, a Biblical and affordable solution to health care, connecting more than 280,000 Christians across the nation who help pay one another’s medical bills. More at samaritanministries.org/worldpodcast (samaritanministries.org/worldpodcast).

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0:00.0	We topped it off with tomato salsa.
0:06.0	July 19th, 2004, just a typical warm summer evening in Corpus Christi, Texas.
0:13.0	Until 9-1-1 dispatchers got word of a disturbance at a local hamburger joint.
0:20.0	What's going on in that water burger at 2018 South Staples Street is serious.
0:34.0	But it's nothing compared to what went on minutes before outside a convenience store nearby.
0:51.0	The first 9-1-1 calls are about women threatened at knife point at the water burger fast food drive through.
0:58.0	But what they didn't know is that the man with the knife had already struck across town.
1:20.0	His victim lies in a pool of blood.
1:23.0	Pablo Castro was taking the trash out at the end of his shift.
1:26.0	He encountered John Henry Ramirez, who stabs Castro a total of 29 times.
1:32.0	There are two people with a red band and a white band following each other.
1:35.0	Ramirez gets away and goes on the land for four years.
1:39.0	Castro does not get away.
1:41.0	The case of John Henry Ramirez has been making headlines since 2004.
1:44.0	It was in July of that year when Ramirez killed Pablo Castro during a convenience store robbery.
1:51.0	Ramirez was not taking it.
1:52.0	That Ramirez killed Pablo Castro is not in question.
1:56.0	He confessed.
1:57.0	I witnesses testified against him.
1:59.0	DNA evidence confirmed it.
2:01.0	It was an open and shut capital prosecution.
2:05.0	Ramirez will wait out his final sentence on death row at the Polonsky Unit.
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