Judge: 'Railroad Killer' to Be Executed
By MICHAEL GRACZYK, Associated Press Writer
Wed Jun 21, 1:27 PM


Serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz sits in a Houston ...
HOUSTON - A judge ruled Wednesday that serial killer Angel Maturino Resendiz, who gained notoriety as the "Railroad Killer" linked to at least 15 murders across the country, is mentally competent to be executed next week for the 1998 rape-slaying of a Texas doctor.

Resendiz' attorneys had argued that the 46-year-old Mexican national believed he was half-man and half-angel and would return three days after he went to the death chamber.

"He knows he's been convicted of capital murder," State District Judge William Harmon said at the conclusion of a three-day hearing Wednesday. "He knows he's received a death sentence and he knows that today. And he knows he's going to be executed on Tuesday."

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