A Texas inmate who had long claimed his conviction more than 20 years ago was based on false testimony and questionable evidence was executed Wednesday evening for fatally shooting two people, including his cousin.Ivan Cantu received a lethal injection and was pronounced dead at 6:47 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville for the November 2000 fatal shooting of his cousin, James Mosqueda, 27, and his cousin's girlfriend, Amy Kitchen, 22.
Mosqueda's blood was found on the gun's barrel while Cantu's fingerprints were found on the gun's magazine.In a 2005 affidavit, Matthew Goeller, one of Cantu's trial attorneys, said Cantu admitted to him "he had indeed killed Mosqueda for ‘ripping him off' on a drug deal" and that Kitchen was killed because she was a witness. Cantu's then-girlfriend, Amy Boettcher, was the prosecution's main witness.
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