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~ Mark Soliz, 10Sep19, (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: August 23, 2019, 12:24 am
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Death Row Information
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Name Soliz, Mark Anthony
TDCJ Number 999571
Date of Birth 01/27/1982
Date Received 03/28/2012
Age (when Received) 30
Education Level (Highest Grade Completed) 8
Date of Offense 06/29/2010
Age (at the time of Offense) 28
County Johnson
Race Hispanic
Gender Male
Hair Color Black
Height (in Feet and Inches) 5′ 5″
Weight (in Pounds) 177
Eye Color Brown
Native County Tarrant
Native State Texas
Prior Occupation
Cabinet maker
Prior Prison Record
#925766 - Theft; #1060195 - Unauthorized Use of a Motor Vehicle;
#1225186 - Theft; #1354704 - Theft; #1410287 - Theft of Vehicle
Summary of Incident
Subject and codefendant knocked on the victim's door and pulled
a 9 millimeter handgun when she answered. They pushed her
inside the house and removed several electronics. Before
leaving the residence, the subject shot the victim once in the
back of the head causing her death.
Co-Defendants
Jose Claremont Ramos, Jr.
Race and Gender of Victim
White female
#Post#: 387--------------------------------------------------
Re: ~ Mark Soliz, 10Sep19, (TX) ~
DIR By: BuzzC
Date: September 10, 2019, 7:10 pm
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North Texas man apologetic prior to execution--
Tuesday, September 10, 2019
On Tuesday, Mark Anthony Soliz became the sixth Texas death row
inmate to be executed, after he was put to death for the 2010
shooting of a 61-year-old grandmother at her North Texas home
during an eight-day crime spree. A spree that included thefts
and another killing.
Soliz, 37, was pronounced dead at 6:32 p.m. after receiving a
lethal dosage of Pentobarbital at the Huntsville “Walls” Unit —
13 minutes after the process began.
Soliz, who chose not to file a last-second appeal to the United
States Supreme Court, was apologetic with his final statement
towards the family of the victim Nancy Hatch Weatherly.
“I want to apologize for the grief and the pain that I caused
y’all,” Soliz said to the two members of the Weatherly family in
attendance. “I’ve been considering changing my life, it took me
27 years to do so. I don’t know if me passing will bring y’all
comfort for the pain and suffering I caused y’all. I’m at
peace.”
Soliz’s last statement lasted nearly five minutes.
State and federal appeals courts and the Texas Board of Pardons
and Paroles turned down requests by Soliz's attorneys to stop
his execution throughout his appeals process, with the most
recent denial coming last week.
Soliz's lawyers had argued for years that he suffers from fetal
alcohol spectrum disorder, which left him with brain damage. His
attorneys said the disorder is the "functional equivalent" of
conditions already recognized by the U.S. Supreme Court as
disqualifying exemptions to the death penalty, such as
intellectual disability.
Prosecutors portrayed Soliz as a dangerous individual who killed
Weatherly for a "pittance of property."
Soliz became the 15th inmate to be put to death in the United
States this year, and the sixth in the state of Texas — the
country's most active death chamber. Nine more executions are
currently scheduled throughout the remainder of 2019, with one
scheduled for 2020.
Soliz was sentenced to death by the 413th District Court for the
June 29, 2010 shooting death of Nancy Hatch Weatherly in her
home near Godley.
The week before Weatherly was murdered, Soliz and his friend
Jose Clemente Ramos were known to have robbed strangers at
gunpoint, shot a man in the ear, killed the driver of a beer
delivery truck, pulled off a carjacking, burglarized homes and
shot a man repeatedly in a drive-by.
Most of the crimes were in the Fort Worth area, but on June 29,
Ramos and Soliz drove to Weatherly’s home in Johnson County.
When the victim answered the door, the duo pulled out a gun and
pushed her inside to rob her.
Attorneys involved in the case said Weatherly had poor eyesight,
and may have confused Soliz and Ramos for two men who did work
on her property when she opened her door.
Court records say that Soliz left Ramos to guard Weatherly while
he ransacked her house. Ramos tried to calm Weatherly telling
her they were only there to rob here home, when Soliz walked
back into the room.
Attorney’s said Weatherly asked Soliz not to take an item that
belonged to her mother, at which point Soliz said, “Then go be
with her” before shooting her in the back of the head. A woman
who testified during the trial said Soliz recounted the incident
to her later that same or the next day and made fun of
Weatherly’s accent while doing so.
Ramos was sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of
Weatherly and the delivery man, Ruben Martinez.
The U.S. Supreme Court in 2002 barred the execution of mentally
disabled people but has given states some discretion to decide
how to determine intellectual disability. However, justices have
wrestled with how much discretion to allow.
The Texas Attorney General's Office said in court documents
filed earlier this month that the Supreme Court has not held
that individuals with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder are exempt
from capital punishment and that Soliz has not presented an
expert opinion stating he is intellectually disabled.
The attorney general's office said in its motion with the 5th
U.S. Circuit of Appeals that a Fort Worth police detective
testified Soliz was "more sophisticated, calculated, and
dangerous" than his partner Ramos and that "Soliz was the most
dangerous person with whom he had come into contact" in his 16
years as a police officer.
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