A Texas convict is making a last-ditch effort to avoid execution on March 27, but the outcome is looking pretty dire for him. Rosendo Rodriguez, who is known in Texas as "the suitcase killer" for raping and murdering a pregnant woman in 2005, cramming her body in a suitcase, and throwing it in a landfill, made a last-minute appeal with the Us Supreme Court just hours before his execution. Rodriguez's lawyers appealed his death sentence on the grounds that the medical examiner's testimony wasn't credible enough and that Summer Baldwin, the victim who was 10 weeks pregnant, wasn't actually sexually assaulted. Police determined that the injuries on Baldwin's body were consistent with sexual assault, while Rodriguez insists he had consexual sex with Summer. He said she was a prostitute, and that he accidentally killed her when they began arguing. The sexual assault charge is what got him the death penalty. (Photo Credit: Lubbock...
- 3/27/2018
- by Emy LaCroix
- In Touch Weekly
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