Jennifer Ertman And Elizabeth Pena’s Killer Peter Cantu Executed
August 18th, 2010 - 8:18 pm ICT by GDBy Gina Gomez
Aug 18, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Last night marked the end of painful chapter in Houston’s history with Peter Anthony Cantu’s execution. Peter Cantu was the leader of the gang that attacked, raped and murdered Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena back in 1993. The victims’ families who watched the execution said that it gave them satisfaction but could not heal their permanent wound.
Peter Cantu is the third person executed for the crime, two others are serving life sentences and the another murderer got a sentence of 40 years in prison. On the fateful night Peter Cantu, the leader of the Black and White gang and other gang members were initiating a new member in their group. The two girls Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena took a short cut to go back home to avoid being late and Peter Cantu and his friends spotted them. The media reports that the gang brutally raped and murdered them and the bodies were discovered in battered and decomposing condition in a wooded field 4 days after they were reported missing.
The media reports that Peter Cantu was given lethal injection and he died eight minutes after he was injected. The murderer who spent his 17 years on death row did not comment anything before his death and the witnesses reports that there was no expression of repentance or remorse on his face. The victims’ family members said that Peter Cantu’s death was to good for him as he did not suffer for long before his death. Jennifer Ertman’s father Randy Ertman said that the killer should have been hung outside the courthouse.
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