A 41 -year -old man was executed Wednesday in Texas, in the southern US, after being sentenced to the last sentence of the young mother’s murder in 2004, increasing to 13 the number of deaths from the country’s authorities this year.

Following the disposal of the last appeal of its lawyers by the US Supreme Court, Moisses Santoval Mentaa He was executed with injectable deadly chemicals in Hudsville prison, the Texas prison authorities said.

The man, originally from Latin America, was found guilty For sexual assault and murder in 2004, by Rachel O’Neil Tolessonwhen both of them were twenty years old.

After killing her, he transported the corpse to a ditch, set fire to him and then hid it in vegetation, according to the case file.

The victim was found several days later.

The young mother, a mother of just five months at that time, knew her killer, had gone to high school together, according to press reports.

His defense attempted, unsuccessfully, his sentence to turn into life imprisonment, assuring that He now lived peacefully in prison.

But his violent clash with his detainee destroyed the argument of the lawyers, and Texas Court of Appeal rejected the request.

The defense appealed to the Supreme Court, promoting the deposition of his detainee, who confessed that he attacked Moisses Santoval Mentosa.

In vain.

In the US, thirteen executions have been made in the US since the beginning of the year: nine with injectable fatal chemicals, two With suffocation due to nitrogen inhalation, a controversial method used for the first time in the world in Alabama (southeast) in 2024, and two from executive excerpts in South Carolina; before this year, this method has been used in the country since 2010.

The death penalty has been removed to 23 of the 50 US states. In the other five (California, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee) a moratorium is applied to its imposition, by decisions of their rulers.