Texas Executes Ivan Cantu for Double Murder Conviction
Dallas, Texas – Ivan Cantu was executed on Wednesday, marking the end of a long legal battle surrounding the 2000 double murder of his cousin, James Mosqueda, and Mosqueda’s girlfriend, Amy Kitchen. Cantu, 50, faced his death by lethal injection at 6:47 pm local time, insisting on his innocence until the very end. Despite Cantu’s claims of being framed and maintaining his innocence, prosecutors argued that he killed Mosqueda during an attempted robbery at his …