Sex offender before execution: "Go Cowboys!"

This photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Jesse Joe Hernandez. Hernandez already was a convicted child sex offender when he was arrested for the beating death of a 10-month-old boy he was babysitting at a Dallas home. He is set for execution Wednesday evening for the baby's death 11 years ago.

/ AP Photo/Texas Department of Criminal Justice

Convicted child sex offender and murderer Jesse Joe Hernandez took his love for "America's Team" literally to the grave.

Before receiving his lethal injection Wednesday, Hernandez "blessed" the audience attending the execution and then shouted "Go Cowboys!" according to the Associated Press.

As the drugs took hold, he again thanked the viewing gallery and said, "I can feel it, taste it. It's not bad."

Hernandez's execution, the fourth this year in Texas, was carried out after he was convicted in the beating death of 10-month-old Karlos Borja, whom he was baby-sitting in Dallas 11 years ago. Borja's 4-year-old sister was also found with similar injuries but survived. Hernandez was already a convicted child sex offender at the time of the incident.

While there are no complete records on this, Hernandez is far from alone in invoking his favorite sports team just before being executed by the state.

In October, 2010, convicted murderer Jeffrey Landrigan was executed in Arizona for an apparent robbery-turned-killing. A prison official said Landrigan's final words were, "Boomer Sooner."

Landrigan, though executed in Arizona, hailed from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and was a big fan of the Sooners.

[jonsnow7412]

yeah let's called this guy a sex offender rather than a homicidal rapist. this headline is a very telling sign of what's wrong with out society

[raffla]

None of you get it - the guy was clearly criminally insane.

Now, we must ask ourselves, do we kill the criminally insane or institutionalize them for life?

And for all of you self-identified "Christians" out there, what would Christ say?

[Raptorsmasher]

Every Christian knows that Jesus would show no mercy and would be a strong advocate of execution.

[gopack443]

One less cowboy fan anyway!

[Keith_Richard_Radford_Jr]

1.) There is no law, parliamentary procedure was ignored when the law was passed
2.) There is no law, that will keep kids who want to have sex from having sex with themselves/other kids/adults/dogs/cats/birds/Jews/a hole in the sidewalk, or anything else for that mater.
3.) Sex laws are nothing more than slavery for work farms/a hidden genocide being conducted in America. Google "murdered transient", sex laws make transients.
Personally I think all advocates for sex laws need to be brought up on charges pursuant to the Geneva Convention and Nuremberg Laws [pertaining to war crimes.
The inital laws used to mutate into this fiasco were safety transportation laws for Volvo Auto crash tests and look where we have come. Senators lie/believe lies to inject sex into a law just because a cars is named after a V-jj!
Right to lifers push these laws?
I remember my right to lifer granny and granddad on one side of one of the families who were afraid of escalators so they got together to stop escalators. They feed a girl to one. Wow huh, don't touch my daughter but I can feed her to an escalator. Sex laws are making people rich, did you see the article where some guy got put to death for having sex and murdering a girl, her family did not even show up for the execution. Now think did he do this for them to get out of feeding her since it costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to raise a child? Don't put it past escalator feeders.

[prbrunk718]

Go Executioner!

[Transatlantique]

At some point in his childhood, he was beaten or molested, and he was simply acting out what he had been taught. His support for "his team" was evidence of how he, like most people, are easily distracted from truth these days.

[Raptorsmasher]

I'm sure Texans are proud of their status as one of the few places left in the civilized world that still execute people.

[Zann-Zel]

Rapists..........yeah, I'm proud of my state. Some people do NOT deserve to breathe!

[Raptorsmasher]

rational_1, spoken like a true idiot. Please stay in Texas, and keep your disease local.

[samXXkiley]

coucou,
he's arrogant and cruel, this execution will be an example to others criminals, they are many for sure,
"au revoir"

[credibility2]

One less heinous criminal the taxpayers have to support.

[ThemBones24]

Just more proof why they are America's Team...