This week in 2007

“. . . Where’s my stunt double when you need one? My Lord is my life and savior, nothing shall I fear.”

— Vincent Gutierrez, convicted of murder, lethal injection, Texas.
Executed March 28, 2007

Gutierrez was convicted of killing Capt. Jose Cobo, an air force officer, during a carjacking with an accomplice. According to the Associated Press, “Gutierrez was 18 at the time. Just two weeks before the shooting, he had been released from a two-month stint at a prison boot camp for a burglary conviction. He acknowledged shooting Cobo—and expressed no remorse—saying he fired at the military officer because he didn’t want to go back to jail for another robbery.”