2023-09-29 04:06:41
The defense of Ecuadorian Nelson Serrano, the oldest prisoner on death row in the United States, reported this Thursday that his client has allegedly been threatened with death inside the Union Correctional Institution, formerly known as the Florida State Prison. .
Lawyer Óscar Vela stated that Serrano, 84, told his son that he was transferred from a cell without reason, from one adapted for people in wheelchairs to a common cell, where his companions allegedly told him that this change was due to that someone wants to kill him.
“We ask the Ecuadorian authorities to take urgent measures,” warned the lawyer, who recently announced that he would present thirteen pieces of evidence to court so that his client can be declared innocent of a quadruple shooting murder in Florida of George Gonsalves, Diane Russo Patisso, George Patisso and Doso.
These include testimonies that confirmed, for example, that there were other people at the crime scene, the existence of a third weapon and DNA tests carried out on a latex glove found at the scene of the event.
The so-called Bartow crimes occurred in 1997, in a company in which Serrano was a partner, and for which he was sentenced in 2006 to four death sentences despite the fact that, according to Vela, it was proven in the trial that he was in Atlanta. at that moment.
Among the deceased is one of the partners and two children of another partner, and that is why Serrano, who was the third partner of the company, in which they had had problems due to the disappearance of money, was identified from the first moment as a suspect. which led the Ecuadorian to file a civil suit.
According to Vela, Serrano – who uses a wheelchair due to hip problems – is losing his vision, which would also be a serious problem on a mental level, since reading books has allowed him to endure a confinement of more than two decades. (YO)
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