Texas Chronicle: Edna Rivera Cantú faces death penalty for homicide

• Edna Rivera Cantú, a ‘Dreamer’ immigrant, is charged with a capital murder and could be sentenced to the death penalty.
• In Texas there are only six women awaiting execution at the Polansky Unit prison known as the ‘Hall of Death’.
• Rivera Cantú did not kill the victim Fernando Garza Jr. but was allegedly part of a plot between four people to assassinate him.

Edna Rivera Cantú is charged with capital

murder and kidnapping in Texas. For her crime the girl faces the death penalty.

Rivera Cantú, 29, is charged with capital murder for the Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) for having participated in the disappearance and murder of a man in Mission, Texas.

Rivera Cantú’s story is relevant because not many women are accused of capital murder in Texas. The girl did not directly kill the victim, but according to authorities she was part of the conspiracy to have the murder carried out.

At Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) there are only six women awaiting execution. If Edna Rivera Cantú is found guilty and convicted, it could be the seventh.

In addition, the girl’s story becomes relevant because she is a ‘Dreamer’ immigrant who has benefited from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

What is narrated in this chronicle is the succession of events that led Rivera Cantú to jail and that, if a judge convicts her, they could later lead her to live in the Hall of Death, the Texas jail for those who hope to die by lethal injection.

Everything you will read next is contained in the legal documents of the case.

Fernando Garza Jr., 24, left his home in Mission, Texas, on Tuesday, July 23 in his truck. It was a normal day in her life to go to work and go about her normal routine. However, he never returned home.

The following Wednesday, his family, concerned about Garza Jr.’s disappearance, called the HCSO office to report that the boy had not returned home and was not answering calls on his cell phone.

HCSO agents obtained details on the streets, through confidential informants, that Garza Jr. was allegedly kidnapped and killed by a man they called ‘Diamond’.

When agents search for Garza Jr., a person called the emergency number to report a truck that was on the side of the Iowa Road, a rural road used by ranchers and ranchers, on the outskirts of the city. The caller said the truck had been there for a couple of days.

The first patrol car to arrive on Iowa Road, just over 11 miles from Mission, thought it would cover a routine report of a stranded or broken down car but when it arrived it found a Hispanic man shot in the face inside the vehicle.

When the patrolman checked the truck’s license plates in the database, he discovered that it was Fernando Garza Jr.’s, the man his companions were looking for. He then called Homicide Division detectives who discovered that the man’s wrists were tied with tape.

The agents of the Homicide Division of the HCSO discovered that Garza Jr. had been at some point on the night of Tuesday the 23rd at the home of a Hispanic woman who they only knew was named Edna.

The precise reason why Garza Jr. visited Edna is, to this day, a mystery. However, agents discovered that the girl’s full name was Edna Rivera Cantú and she lived at 8608 Marivel Ortiz Street in Mission.

When the agents managed to identify Rivera Cantú, they learned that she was a friend of a certain ‘Diamond’ and who was identified as Julio César Deleón, who along with another man named Alfredo Huerta, known as ‘Freddy’, had already kidnapped Garza at gunpoint Jr. of the woman’s house.

In the arrest warrant against Rivera Cantú, detectives from the Homicide Division of the HCSO stated that «Edna knew what was going to happen» to Garza Jr. and helped the two men to tie him around the wrists with tape so that they would remove him. from your home.

Deleón and Huerta took Garza Jr. from Rivera Cantú’s house and took him to the Iowa Road next to a vegetable garden where he was killed by at least one bullet in the face.

The judge valued that although Edna Rivera Cantú did not participate directly in the shots that killed Fernando Garza Jr., he did associate with premeditation with the other two men to kill him after taking him out of his house.

Because of that, she also faced the charge of capital murder along with Deleón and Huerta.

The agents of the Homicide Division of the HCSO spoke with the victim’s father who stated in his statement that Deleón, Huerta, Rivera Cantú and another implicated named Luis Domingo Domínguez were friends of his son.

Based on all the expert evidence and the testimonies, the Homicide Division agents arrested the four people.

However, to this day only Rivera Cantú, Deleón and Huerta remain in custody and charged with kidnapping and capital murder.

Luis Domingo Domínguez managed to release these accusations because he agreed to cooperate with the authorities and revealed in court all the details of the plot to kidnap and kill Fernando Garza Jr.

Until the moment of writing this story, the trial against Rivera Cantú, Deleón and Huerta continues before Judge Israel Ramón of the 430 District Criminal Court in the Hidalgo County, who will decide whether or not the Hispanic girl deserves to go to the Hall of Death.

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