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January 4, 2007
Media Advisory: Carlos Granados Scheduled For Execution
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott offers the following information about Carlos Alberto Granados, who is scheduled to be executed after 6 p.m. Wednesday, January 10, 2007. A Williamson County jury sentenced Granados to death for the 1998 murder of his girlfriend’s three-year-old son, Anthony Jiminez.
FACTS OF THE CRIME
On Monday, Sept. 14, 1998, Georgetown police went to Katherine Jiminez’s Georgetown, TX, apartment and found Katherine and her son, Anthony, on the floor. Katherine had been stabbed numerous times and Anthony had been stabbed to death.
Katherine told authorities that following an argument on Sunday, her live-in boyfriend, Carlos Granados stabbed her repeatedly with a long kitchen knife. Granados then left the room, and Katherine heard Anthony scream, “I don’t want to die. Don’t kill me. I don’t want to die.” Stabbed in the chest, Anthony died moments later.
Meanwhile, Katherine’s family became worried that they had not heard from her, so they contacted Georgetown police, who visited Katherine’s apartment Monday morning. Officers knocked on Katherine’s apartment door and called her apartment but received no response in either case. Authorities then pried open the apartment door.
On entering the apartment, an officer saw Granados with a large kitchen knife covered in blood. The officer ordered Granados to release the knife, but Granados told police, “Shoot me, just shoot me.” Granados eventually dropped the knife and was handcuffed.
A physician later determined that Katherine, who was pregnant at the time of the attack, had nearly 30 stab wounds and a spinal cord injury that caused loss of feelings in her legs.
A county jail inmate testified at Granados’s trial that Granados calmly admitted in a jailhouse conversation that he stabbed Katherine and killed her baby.
CRIMINAL HISTORY
The prosecution presented evidence that revealed Granados’s violent history. A girlfriend of Granados testified that he physically assaulted her by punching her, grabbing her neck, and choking her. The witness also stated that she caught Granados kissing her thirteen-year- old sister, and that she found bite marks and bruises on her three-year-old son after he visited Granados. Granados admitted to a case worker that he bit the boy and had spanked him, leaving bruises. A different girlfriend testified that Granados fathered a child with her but provided no financial support for his child. Additional testimony established that Granados assaulted a family member with a beer bottle, causing injury.
Testimony from Williams County correctional officers showed that Granados refused to follow orders in the county jail, and that Granados repeatedly said he did not care if he was disciplined for misconduct
Finally, Katherine’s mother testified that after the stabbing, Katherine became scared to be by herself. Anthony’s death affected the entire family.
PROCEDURAL HISTORY
04/25/99 --A Williamson County jury sententenced Granado to death on his capital murder conviction.
05/08/02 -- Granados’s conviction and sentence were affirmed on direct appeal.
03/24/02--The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari review of the Texas court’s decision on direct appeal.
09/18/02--The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals denied Granados’s writ application based upon the findings, conclusions, and recommendation of the trial court.
01/15/04 -- Granados filed a federal writ of habeas corpus petition.
02/17/05 -- A U.S. district court adopted a magistrate’s report and recommendation, and denied habeas relief.
03/09/05--The U.S. district court denied a certificate of appealability (“COA”).
07/05/06--The 5th U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a COA and heard oral argument and affirmed the denial of Granados’s habeas petition.
07/19/06--The 277th District Court in Williamson County scheduled Granados’s execution for Wednesday, January 10, 2007.
12/04/06--The U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari review of the 5th Circuit Court’s decision.
MISCELLANEOUS
For additional information and statistics, please go to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice website, www.tdcj.state.tx.us.
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