searched Cantu's home, rendering the case unprosecutable. Officer De La Luz survived the shooting, and a friend of his who worked homicide, Sgt. Bill Ewell, decided to reopen the murder investigation against Ruben Cantu immediately. On the following day, Sgt. Ewell sent an investigator to Juan Moreno a fourth time, showing Cantu's photo and four others. Again, Juan Moreno did not identify Cantu as one of his attackers. But he did provide Cantu's name. One day later, a third homicide detective picked up Moreno (an undocumented immigrant from Mexico at the time), drove him to the police station, sat him down, and showed him the same group of photos that included Cantu. On that third attempt, Moreno positively identified the photo of Cantu as being one of his attackers. Years later, Moreno said that the person who shot him had very curly hair and that he was never shown a photo of the real shooter. David Garza, Cantu's codefendant, has since admitted involvement in the burglary, assault and murder. He says he went inside the house with another boy, participated in the robbery, and saw the murder occur, but that his accomplice was not Ruben Cantu. According to Garza, the real murderer was an elementary school friend of Cantu. This person, whose only criminal record is a single misdemeanor domestic assault conviction, denied that he had anything to do with the robbery and murder when he was interviewed by the Houston Chronicle in 2005. Execution Shortly after being convicted by a jury of first degree murder and sentenced, Cantu wrote a note to the people of San Antonio saying: "I have been framed in a capital murder case. I was framed because I shot an off-duty police officer named Joe De La Luz." On August 24, 1993, at 22 minutes after midnight, at the age of 26, Cantu died by lethal injection, becoming the fifth juvenile offender to be executed by Texas. His final request was for a piece of bubble gum, which was denied. Asked if he had a last statement, he said "No, sir." Recent developments Sam Millsap, who was the district attorney presiding over the Cantu case, proclaimed himself a "lifelong supporter of the death penalty" in his commentary published in the San Antonio Express-News in 2000. In a December 2005 interview with the Express-News Millsap expressed a newfound opposition to capital punishment. In that 2005 story,