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Texas News Roundup: Military Burial and Texas Death Row Appeals
In El Paso a Marine from Albuquerque was buried with honors at Fort Bliss National Cemetery after dying in Afghanistan. A Dallas TI chip plant accident left 54 year old Roy Aguilar dead, impaled by glass during a water purifier explosion. The Supreme Court denied appeals for Mexican national Felix Rocha and for Benikca Adams, both on death row for separate killings in 1994 and 2002 respectively.
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EL Paso
Albuquerque
Afghanistan
Texas
Christopher Diaz
el Paso Times
St. Mark's Catholic Church
Fort Bliss National Cemetery
Helmand Province
Richardson
Texas Instruments
Dallas
Kevin Perlich
Roy Aguilar
Perlich
Whitney Jodry
Associated Press
Houston
U.S. Supreme Court
High Court
Felix Rocha
Raphael Fuentes
Rocha
Fuentes
Benikca Adams
Kenneth Vandever
Rusk