butcher's knife near Benton's body and Carter identified a
on Aug. 29, 1997, as the two were returning from a Maturino Resendiz is accused of being the so-called railroad killer, who . During the course of his life he was deported several times for illegally entering the United States, and spent around 11 years in American prisons for Burglary, Assault, Auto Theft, and other such crimes. On May 17, 1999, after 10 hours of deliberation, the panel pronounced Angel Maturino Resendiz guilty of first-degree, premeditated murder. Benton's husband, George, witnessed Resendiz's execution "to make the statement that people have to understand what evil really is. and her belt, and struck Maier repeatedly in the head with a