Honduran man on Texas death row again loses federal appeal
HOUSTON – A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider an appeal from a Honduran man on Texas death row for beating and strangling a Houston woman during a robbery at her home more than 20 years ago.
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in March ruled against 46-year-old Carlos Ayestas. In an opinion released Monday, the court said the full court would not rehear the appeal that argues his previous lawyers were deficient and questions the accuracy of the earlier ruling that said he had been examined by a psychologist for his 1997 trial. Ayestas wasn’t.
A Harris County jury took 12 minutes to decide Ayestas should die for murdering 67-year-old Santiaga Pareque in the September 1995 robbery.
He doesn’t yet have an execution date.
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