Entries tagged with “Wilmar Rene Gomez-Duran”
Death Row
Foreign Nationals
,Federal Death Penalty
,Mar 12, 2020
News Brief — Federal Capital Case Dismissed Because of Prosecution’s 14-Year Delay
NEWS (3/12/20): Citing a 14-year delay by federal prosecutors in bringing the case to trial, a federal district court in Texas has dismissed a federal capital murder indictment against a Salvadoran man charged with killing two Honduran immigrants. The indictment alleges that the two victims were being held for ransom by a human-smuggling operation and that Wilmar Rene Gomez-Duran had tortured and murdered them after they tried to escape. Senior Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt (pictured) of the United…