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Death Row Inmate Rejects Mercy | Tulsa News
A death row inmate on his way to execution refused mercy, calling it his duty to pay for his crime — the 2003 murder of his 19-year-old wife after an argument over drugs. Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 40, appeared before Oklahoma’s Pardon and Parole Board via phone, apologizing but insisting he didn’t want clemency. The board denied his request 4-1, with the chairman calling the plea “unprecedented.” Now scheduled for lethal injection on October 5th, Rodriguez, who’s spent 17 years on death row, described himself as broken — physically and mentally — and unable to ask for fairness for the family…
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