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 News from Around the Americas | March 2007 
Mexican Mafia Leader Put to Death
 United Press International
| | In this undated photo released by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, former death row inmate Robert Perez is shown. (Associated Press) |
Huntsville, Texas — A leader in the Mexican Mafia gang convicted of a shootout in San Antonio was executed Tuesday, becoming the seventh person put to death this year in Texas.
Robert Beaver Perez was pronounced dead at 6:17 p.m., the San Antonio Express-News reported.
Perez's wife, brother and two sons witnessed the execution. No relatives of the victims came to the prison in Huntsville to watch him die.
After telling his wife he loved her and asking her to take care of his sons, Perez told the warden he was ready for the lethal injection.
I got my boots on like a cowboy, he said.
Perez, who was convicted of state murder charges and federal racketeering charges, has been on death row since 1999. Bill Baumann, who prosecuted the federal case, said that he was pivotal in wreaking havoc in San Antonio in the early 1990s.
Federal and state prosecutors say that Perez ordered his underlings to kill. He was sentenced to death for the killing of two teenagers in a San Antonio housing project and to life in federal prison for crimes that included a quintuple murder on West French Place in San Antonio and drug trafficking. |
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