Pablo Lucio Vasquez told police he was drunk and high when voices convinced him to kill David Cardenas in Donna, a Texas border town about 225 miles south of San Antonio, in 1998.

Pablo Lucio Vasquez, 38, told police he was drunk and high when voices convinced him 18 years ago to kill David Cardenas by beating the seventh-grader with a pipe and then cutting his throat.

Pablo Lucio Vasquez told police he was drunk and had smoked marijuana when voices convinced him to kill David Cardenas in Donna, a Texas border town about 362km south of San Antonio.

HUNSTVILLE, Texas (AP) – Pablo Lucio Vasquez remembered getting drunk and high on an April evening in 1998 before leaving a party with his 15-year-old cousin and his cousin's 12-year-old friend.

Pablo Lucio Vasquez, who admitted to slitting the throat of a 12-year-old boy and beating him to death before stealing a ring and necklace from the body 18 years ago, was executed Wednesday evening.

This undated handout photo provided by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice shows Pablo Lucio Vasquez. The south Texas man who told police that voices convinced him to kill a 12-year-old boy ...

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So-called “Vampire Killer” Pablo Lucio Vasquez will be executed after spending 18 years on death row in Texas for the 1998 murder, provided his lawyers’ last-ditch appeal fails.

Pablo Lucio Vasquez, 38, was executed at a Huntsville prison and pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m. local time (7:35 p.m. ET), Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Robert Hurst said.

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HUNSTVILLE, Texas – Pablo Lucio Vasquez remembered getting drunk and high on an April evening in 1998 before leaving a party with his 15-year-old cousin and his cousin's 12-year-old friend ...

HUNSTVILLE (AP) — Pablo Lucio Vasquez remembered getting drunk and high on an April evening in 1998 before leaving a party with his 15-year-old cousin and his cousin's 12-year-old friend.