Illegal Alien Executed – Finally

J.J. Jackson* | August 10, 2008

Filed Under Crime Criminals Justice, Immigration

The courts, as well as the American people, are fed up with illegal aliens trying to game our judicial system and avoid punishment for their crimes. Another criminal illegal alien has met his fate at the hands of justice.

HUNTSVILLE — An illegal immigrant from Honduras who claimed his treaty rights were violated when he was arrested for a robbery-murder near Dallas was executed Thursday evening.
“God forgive them, receive my spirit,” Heliberto Chi said in English. In Spanish, he told a friend watching through a window that he loved him and appreciated his hard work. He appeared to be whispering a prayer in Spanish with a tear at the corner of his right eye as the lethal drugs began to take effect.

One of Chi’s cousins, who was among the witnesses, sobbed uncontrollably. Two sons of his victims watched through another window and Chi glanced at them briefly but didn’t appear to acknowledge them.

Chi was pronounced dead nine minutes later at 6:25 p.m. CDT.

Lawyers for Chi had claimed in appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court that he should have been told he could get legal assistance from the Honduran consulate when he was arrested in California and extradited to Texas to face charges for killing his former boss, Armand Paliotta, at a men’s clothing store during a robbery 7 1/2 years ago. Chi had once worked for Paliotta as a tailor at the store in Arlington, between Dallas and Fort Worth.

The Supreme Court, ruling about 2 1/2 hours before his scheduled execution time, rejected his appeal without dissent.

The arguments in his case, focusing on rights of foreigners under international treaty, were similar to those used unsuccessfully Tuesday by lawyers for condemned Texas prisoner Jose Medellin. In that case, the Supreme Court, with four of the nine justices dissenting, rejected his appeal and the Mexican-born Medellin was executed for participating in the gruesome gang rape and murders of two teenage Houston girls 15 years ago.

Remember this next time you think you are going to come to this country illegal and then commit further crimes beyond that – especially in Texas. But there is one thing in this story that I find so unbelievable that it still boggles my mind. You mean California actually consented to extradite an illegal alien who could face the death penalty for his crimes and didn’t instead grant him amnesty and a taxpayer funded home and tuition to the University of his choice? Unbelievable!

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