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More testimony from the lead detective includes more of him reading text messages; in the lead up to the stabbing deaths of Griselda and Dominic, Ronald is apparently sexting with another woman.
It is now the defense's turn to ask questions to the lead detective under cross-examination; Detective Reymundo Garcia retrieves days of messages from the defendants' phone and social media accounts before and after he killed Griselda and Dominic.
Ronald is upset and embarrassed for what he did; that's from the report the county jail mental health specialist wrote down; prosecutors bring up Ronald Burgos-Aviles' mental health status.
Judge Joe Lopez allows five different jailhouse phones to be played for the jury; this is in the state's case against the defendant pushing for a death sentence; prosecutors introduce the jury to phone calls and emails Ronald made in jail.
Introducing the convicted killer's phone calls and emails; they come from the four years he was behind bars awaiting trial; in those jailhouse phone calls the defendant is heard repeating I'm sorry to his wife, Amy.
The defense calls their first witness; they ask the jury not to send their client to death row; medical records show that the defendant may have been psychotic when he stabbed his lover and son.
Dr. Campbell talks about how the stress of the job affects Border Patrol agents; the defense says the culture at the defendant's workplace is why he committed double homicide.
Jurors listen to the testimony of a forensic psychologist over a Zoom call; Dr. Mark Cunningham presents research on violent tendencies for a person convicted of capital murder.
Jurors get a lecture on violent tendencies among prisoners in Texas' prison system; using visual slides, forensic psychologist Dr. Mark Cunningham breaks down his argument for why the defendant should get life in prison for his convictions.
The defense is putting on their case trying to prove to the jury that despite fatally stabbing Griselda and Dominic Hernandez, Ronald Burgos-Avilés is no threat to other prison inmates and prison staff.
Ronald Burgos-Avilés' defense wants to expound on why his life should be spared from the Texas death penalty.
Prosecutors push back on the defense's forensic psychologist, who claims the defendant was not a threat to a prison setting; the defense presents its argument to spare him from state execution by lethal injection.
Prosecutors insisting on the death penalty for Ronald Burgos-Avilés aim to debunk the statistics and research findings of the defense's forensic psychologist.
Visual slides dominate the courtroom's Elmo even under a probing cross-examination of the defense's mental health expert; jurors follow statistics and current research related to violent offenders up for the death penalty.
Ronald Burgos-Avilés' defense shifts the jury's attention to what kind of jail inmate he is after being arrested for double murder; his lawyers bring in two retired police officers who were in charge of Webb County Jail, where the defendant was kept.
The jail intel supervisor returns to the stand; she is responsible for monitoring phone calls and email communications for the jail detaining Ronald Burgos-Aviles after his arrest.
The state brings in an OB-GYN to the stand; this is during the state's rebuttal case pushing for the death penalty on Ronald Burgos-Avilés.
The lead prosecutor tells the jurors that Dominic's seventh birthday is coming up and there would be no better gift than to send his father, his killer, to death row.
The State made its closing remarks trying to convince the jury that Ronald Burgos-Avilés' role in the stabbings of Griselda and Dominic Hernandez merited lethal injection; prosecutor Isidro Alaniz told jurors the defendant should be on death row.
Ronald Burgos-Avilés' attorney reminds jurors that every life is sacred; defense attorney William Boggs reminds jurors that ever since he was arrested for these double murders there were no complaints or issues of him as a jail inmate awaiting trial.
According to his attorney in his capital murder trial, Ronald Burgos-Avilés is not violent and has been cooperating with authorities since his arrest for killing Griselda and Dominic Hernandez.
The jury deliberates for 10 hours and returns its unanimous verdict at midnight; Ronald Burgos-Avilés stands directly in front of Judge Joe Lopez to receive his formal sentence.