Juan Raul Garza, the son of Mexican migrant workers, was born in Brownsville, Texas, but spent his early years in Michigan.

However, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, after returning to Texas, Garza would become the head of a drug-trafficking enterprise that smuggled thousands of kilograms of marijuana from Mexico into the United States.

Garza's organization started with him and members of his group running small quantities of marijuana across the Mexican border.

But within a few years, Garza was making frequent trips to Oaxaca, where the marijuana was grown, and transporting it across the border via plane.

Garza suspected that De La Fuente was responsible for a massive shipment (approximately 1,350 pounds) of marijuana being seized by the police.

When Matos arrived alone, Israel and Manuel forced him to lie down on the floor and then waited to see if De La Fuente would appear.

[3] Five months later, Garza took Israel and his cousin, Jesus Flores, to De La Fuente's nightclub to kill him.

In an attempt to hide what he'd done, he cut a hole in the fence surrounding the trailer and claimed the drugs were stolen.

[3] Garza was arrested in November 1992, after running low on money and calling an associate to arrange a drug sale.

[3] Garza was indicted by the federal government on multiple drug trafficking charges and three counts of murder in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise.

Cantu had explained to Garza that the Mexican police had stolen his money and tortured him by electrocuting his genitals.

One of Garza's men, Emilio "Biggie" Gonzalez, punched and choked Villarreal while Jesus injected her with cocaine.

Manuel was convicted of two counts of murder in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise and two drugs charges.

[5][6] During his testimony, Jesus said he was terrified of Garza and followed all of his orders to avoid becoming one of his victims, even killing one of his friends, who he'd known for more than a decade.

[8] During the sentencing phase, it was revealed that Garza had tried to bribe guards to escape and order a hit on the main prosecutor in his case, saying he wanted him tortured first.

[9] Upon hearing the jury's decision, U.S. District Judge Filemon Vela Sr. told Garza that "the only thing that I can ask you to consider is to start making your peace to your God.

However, Attorney General John Ashcroft pointed out that all of the six men, including Garza, charged with murder in the case, were Hispanic.

[11] Garza was one of three condemned inmates moved from the Texas state male death row on that day due to the opening of the new federal death row wing in USP Terre Haute, Terre Haute, Indiana.

[13] All appeals failed, and on June 19, 2001, Garza was executed at the Federal Correctional Complex, Terre Haute by lethal injection.

[14] Garza's execution took place just eight days after domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh was put to death at the same location.

Many people believe the stay was intended to give McVeigh the milestone of becoming the first person executed by the federal government in the modern era.

[9] Garza's last meal consisted of steak, french fries, onion rings, diet cola, and three slices of bread.