USA (Texas): Death penalty / Legal concern. Edward Brian Capetillo (m), Hispanic, aged 26

USA (Texas): Death penalty / Legal concern. Edward Brian Capetillo (m), Hispanic, aged 26

Index Number: AMR 51/022/2004
Date Published: 4 February 2004
Categories: Americas, USA

Edward Capetillo is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 30 March 2004. He was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of a 20-year-old white woman, Kimberly Williamson, in 1995. Edward Capetillo was 17 at the time of the murder. A fundamental principle of international law prohibits the use of the death penalty against child offenders - anyone who was under 18 at the time of the crime.