Esquivel RudyRamos

American rapist and murderer executed at 12:21 AM on 9 June 1986 at Huntsville Unit (Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville). Esquivel had received a 99-year term in 1953 for participating in a gang rape. He was on parole from the rape conviction on 8 June 1978, when he was snorting cocaine with two prostitutes outside a Houston restaurant. Undercover narcotics cop Timothy Hearn caught him in the act. Esquivel shot at Hearn and his partner, officer Murry Jordan. Jordan was wounded while Hearn, aged 28, was struck fatally in the head. Link to List of people executed in Texas, 1982–89 Read less