Member of Death-Row-Bound ‘Texas 7′ : I’m Ready to Die
Member of Death-Row-Bound ‘Texas 7′ : I’m Ready to Die
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Michael Rodriguez, one of the members of the ‘Texas 7′ group that staged one of the most notorious prison breaks volunteers for execution.
Then he recalls seeing his photo on national TV and grasping the reality that their Hollywood-style plan to rob a Nevada casino had gone terribly awry. He and his fellow fugitives were being hunted everywhere as the killers of a police officer, Aubrey Hawkins, at a store they robbed outside Dallas.
This week, Rodriguez is set to become the first of the six surviving members of the infamous “Texas 7″ — all of them now on death row — to go to the death chamber.
