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~ Ivan Cantu, 28Feb24, (TX) ~
By: BuzzC Date: March 31, 2023, 9:34 pm
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Texas set to execute Ivan Cantu, for 20 years he has maintained
his innocence--
March 20th, 2023
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HUNTSVILLE, TX: A cross with an X marks the grave for a prisoner
executed by the state of Texas in its prison system, as seen in
2009, at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice's Joe Byrd
Cemetery in Huntsville, Texas.
Texas death row inmate Ivan Cantu is scheduled for execution on
February 28, 2024. Cantu was convicted in Collin County for
killing his cousin James Mosqueda, and his cousin's fiance, Amy
Kitchen, in 2000. Cantu has spent over 20 years on death row,
and he has not wavered his story and maintains his innocence.
Matt Duff, the host and private investigator on the podcast
"Cousins by Blood" has spent years diving into the case and has
compiled a strong argument that suggests Cantu could have been
framed and has spent the past 20 years rotting in a prison cell
at the Polunsky Unit in Texas for a crime he did not commit.
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Texas death row inmate Ivan Cantu is scheduled for execution on
February 28, 2024.
Duff interviews the star testimony in Cantu's case that sent him
to death row. Also, the podcast shares the early jail tapes to
hear first-hand conversations with Cantu and his family during
his initial arrest.
The jail tapes embody the frustration in Cantu's voice in 2000
as a man fighting for his life behind bars with an ill-equipped
defense team and a family naive to the Texas criminal justice
system nor the financial means to stand a chance.
The podcast sheds light on Cantu's defense team during the
murder trial. The state utilized five experts; the
state-appointed defense requested zero experts. The podcast
shows that the defense called zero witnesses during the guilt
and innocence phase and presented no exculpatory evidence. His
counsel did not interview witnesses on the state's witness list
before trial and did not request a defense investigator or
conduct any independent investigation, according to the podcast.
In addition, Duff compiled evidence alleging the state's star
witness committed perjury after Cantu's conviction and new
evidence shows that during the murder trial investigating
officers improperly coached witnesses. Duff also adds new
evidence from his hired experts that discredits the timeline
when the murders occurred.
Since 2000, Cantu has maintained his innocence and requested an
investigation into the murder, and DNA testing to help his case.
The request was denied in the Texas appeal court.
The court responded to Cantu's request for DNA on December 4,
2009. Although, "(Cantu) wildly speculates that drug dealers may
(have) set him up, forensic (DNA) testing cannot prove that, and
any results would have no chance of exculpating him."
8)
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Re: ~ Ivan Cantu, 28Feb24, (TX) ~
By: BuzzC Date: February 28, 2024, 8:55 pm
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Sentence has been carried out! Hip, hip, hooray...
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