The Chronicle chose not to dispatch a member of its staff to cover the execution of a baby killer in the form of a Chron Eye, instead running AP copy today:
[Robert] Salazar, 27, was the sixth prisoner put to death this year in Texas and the second of four scheduled this month in the nation’s busiest capital punishment state.
Salazar told police he just wanted Adriana, whom he was baby-sitting, to stop crying. So he pushed her with the back of his hand, causing her to fall down in a bathtub and hit her head.
“I did not mean to hurt Adriana,” Salazar told police in a statement after his arrest for the girl’s death in her Lubbock home. “I don’t want people to think I’m a bad person for what I did.”
But authorities said Salazar did more than push the toddler. In a violent rage, he inflicted injuries on Adriana that a pathologist who testified at his trial said were worse than those suffered by victims of auto accidents.
Nice guy.
Apparently, even the Chronicle‘s anti-death-penalty editors draw the line at sending out staff to portray an admitted baby-killer sympathetically.
