George Rivas
George Rivas, 41, of El Paso, was executed by the State of Texas by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Huntsville on February 29, 2012, and he was pronounced dead at 6:22 p.m. CBS News reported that the state parole board voted to reject a clemency petition and that no last-minute appeals were filed. He had recently married a Canadian woman by proxy, and in his final statement he said, "I am grateful for everything in my life," and "To my wife, I will be waiting for you." He also apologized in that statement, and his wife watched the execution with friends who said goodbye through another window.
Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state
Reported by: Texas Department of Criminal Justice (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.