article_snippet: Manuel Vasquez never looked at The sister of his victim.
article_snippet: Manuel Vasquez's lawyers filed no late appeals to delay Manuel Vasquez execution for the 1998 slaying of 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra.
article_snippet: Evidence at Manuel Vasquez's 1999 capital murder trial showed Manuel Vasquez and two other men were carrying out orders to kill 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra for ignoring the Mexican Mafia's 10 per cent street tax on drugs
article_snippet: After a night of drinking and drugs at a run-down San Antonio motel, Manuel Vasquez and two companions put on bandannas on Vasquez and two companions facesbarged into the nearby room of Ybarra and 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra boyfriend, Moses Bazan, early on March 19, 1998, according to evidence presented at Vasquez's 1999 capital murder trial.
article_snippet: Bazan was knocked out in an ensuing struggle but said Bazan saw Ybarra being beaten, heard Manuel Vasquez holler that 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra was biting Bazan and saw Manuel Vasquez using a telephone cord to strangle Ybarra.
article_snippet: Joel Perez, Manuel Vasquez's lead trial lawyer, recalled last week that the motive for the slaying was 'very detrimental'. '
article_snippet: And the motive for the slaying was she wasn't paying.'
highlights_snippet: Manuel Vasquez, 46, was injected with lethal dose of pentobarbital for carrying out orders to kill 51-year-old Juanita Ybarra in San Antonio, Texas .
  