39-year-old Ramiro Felix Gonzales, in prison his entire adult life, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on June 26, 2024 for the 2001 murder of 18-year-old Bridget Townsend in Medina County, Texas. Authorities learned of Bridget's death (still declared a missing person at the time) when Gonzales, serving a life sentence for a later crime, led authorities to her body. – Also, update on the case of Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell as the State of Idaho will be seeking the death penalty for them for the murders of Lori Vallow’s children, Tylee Ryan and Joshua "J. J." Vallow, as well as Chad Daybell’s wife, Tammy. Chad and Lori married just weeks after Tammy’s death. They had purchased wedding rings 17 days BEFORE Tammy died!
NOTE: Ramiro Gonzales name is sometimes incorrectly spelled Ramiro Gonzalez in various reports.
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UPDATE (WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 2024): Ramiro Gonzales (41) was executed this evening by the State of Texas on what would have been the victim's 41st birthday (Bridget Fay Townsend was born June 26, 1982). Gonzales' official time of death was 6:50pm local time. With his last words from the execution chamber, Gonzales stated: “I can’t put into words the pain I have caused y’all, the hurt, what I took away that I cannot give back. I hope this apology is enough. I never stopped praying that you would forgive me and that one day I would have this opportunity to apologize. I owe all of you my life and I hope one day you will forgive me.” - Texas does not allow a special final meal request for death row inmates to be executed.
UPDATE (WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2023): Texas has rescheduled an execution date for Ramiro Gonzales (41). He is set to be executed on June 26, 2024.
UPDATE (TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2022): On Monday, July 11, 2022, two days before his scheduled execution, the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas issued a stay of execution for Ramiro Felix Gonzales. The execution was halted until it is reviewed further by the Medina County Court as to whether false testimony was presented at his punishment phase trial, and that the “Applicant’s death sentence violates the Eighth Amendment because there exists a national consensus that the death penalty is an excessive punishment for offenders less than twenty-one years old at the time of the crime."
