A man convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer in 2007 is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday in Huntsville. Wesley Lynn Ruiz, 43, was...
This February 2000, file photo shows the execution chamber at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit in Huntsville, Texas.A man convicted of fatally shooting a Dallas police officer in 2007 is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday in Huntsville.
Wesley Lynn Ruiz was convicted in the fatal shooting of Dallas police Officer Mark Nix in 2007. Ruiz is scheduled to die by lethal injection Wednesday. Ruiz filed a motion last week to halt the execution, but it was denied by a judge. Police said Ruiz was a methamphetamine dealer and known gang member who’d been convicted in Dallas of charges related to drugs, weapons and burglary. Ruiz testified he had a gun and methamphetamine in his car, which were probation violations that could’ve landed him in prison. So, he said, he fled.
Other officers unleashed a barrage of gunfire in response. After a standoff, Ruiz was dragged out of the car and taken to a hospital. He was shot nine times.Prosecutors told jurors to doubt Ruiz’s truthfulness. Ruiz did all he could the day of the shooting to evade police and avoid prison time, and he was doing the same in the courtroom, they argued.the 77th Dallas police officer to die in the line of duty. He’d been with the department about seven years.
“Someone was going to have to approach that vehicle,” then-Deputy Chief Charles Cato, who is now the DART police chief, said at the time. “Mark was going to be that man.”If the execution carries on as planned, Ruiz will become the 580th prisoner put to death in Texas since 1982, according toTexas leads the nation in executions since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, according to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
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