[Congressional Record Volume 152, Number 85 (Tuesday, June 27, 2006)]
[House]
[Page H4667]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              JUDGMENT DAY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Poe) is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, tonight there is one less brutal murderer in 
Texas. Angel Maturino Resendiz is gone. He has been executed, ending 
one of the most brutal reigns of terror a serial killer has ever known.
  Some called him the face of death. He rode the rails from Mexico to 
the heartland of America, leaving a wake of bloodied and mutilated 
bodies behind him, quickly earning the top ranking of the FBI's most 
wanted list.
  Thanks to the tenacity of Texas Ranger Drew Carter, who captured 
Resendiz, and the work of the FBI and numerous local law enforcement 
agencies, justice has occurred. The wanted posters have come down.
  Resendiz raped, brutalized, tortured, maimed, and he took the lives 
of at least nine people, all who live within yards of railroad tracks 
throughout America. But he stole. He stole the security of citizens 
everywhere he went. Small town shops sold out of pistols. People who 
never locked their doors even sealed their windows because of the fear 
of Resendiz. Resendiz never knew where he was going, never brought 
anything with him but always knew what he would leave behind, a trail 
of terror and the darkness of death.
  Tonight, much to the dismay of his victims' families, he met a far 
more peaceful fate than the one he inflicted on a 73-year-old woman. 
Her last view of Earth was his wicked face and a pickax coming right at 
her that was lodged in her head and embedded between her eyes. Tonight, 
Angel Resendiz is gone.
  Americans are rid of the beast that pulverized a church secretary's 
face with a sledgehammer. Then he sexually assaulted her. His death 
sentence was for only one single slaying, the rape, stabbing and 
beating of a Houston doctor whose husband watched the execution 
tonight, saying people have to understand what evil really is.
  Resendiz' sentence was objected to by the Mexican government, who 
tried to intervene today in U.S. Federal courts to prevent this justice 
from occurring. The Mexican government instead should pay reparations 
to the nine families he murdered, since Mexico encourages illegals like 
him to enter the United States.
  Resendiz is accused and suspected of many, many more killings 
throughout the United States, all tied together with the winding 
railroad tracks that carried this monster to his chosen chore, 
committing unspeakable random acts of butchery.
  Tonight, Texas and the rest of the country, they are safer. The man 
who considered himself half man and half angel was neither. He was not 
half angel. He was totally a demon. Tonight, he has met his judgment 
day.
  And that's just the way it is.

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