JUST IN: Texas Executes Juan Castillo, a Mexican Man, After 15 Years on Death Row | Usa Death Row…

On May 16th, 2018, after spending nearly 13 years on death row, Juan Edward Castillo was executed by lethal injection at the Walls unit in Huntsville, Texas. He was 37 years old. In this video, we will talk about what happened, his last words, and the execution that ended 15 years of legal battles. But to uncover the events of that December night in 2003, a night when a plan to rob a local rapper spiraled into murder, we have to go back to San Antonio’s Southside and a crime that would tear families apart and raise

questions that haunt the case to this day. A 19-year-old aspiring rapper lured to a lover’s lane with promises of drugs and sex. Seven gunshots in a quiet residential street, a distinctive gold medallion that would become key evidence, and a case built entirely on the word of accompllices who admitted being there, uh, who admitted planning the crime, but who all pointed the finger at one man.

After a teenager was gunned down for his cash and jewelry, Juan Castillo would maintain his innocence for 15 years, refusing plea deals, fighting through four scheduled execution dates, and going to his death, claiming he never pulled the trigger. December 2nd, 2003, a Tuesday night on San Antonio’s south side, Tommy Garcia Jr.

 was at his friend Robert Jimenez’s house hanging out with another friend, Frank Russell. Tommy was 19 years old. He went by the nickname JR and was an aspiring rapper trying to make a name for himself in the local music scene. Tommy had a reputation. He was known for carrying lots of cash and wearing flashy jewelry. Particularly, he wore a distinctive gold medallion on a thick gold chain.

 But everyone who knew Tommy knew about that necklace. It was his signature piece. That night, Tommy received a phone call. It was from a woman named Deborah Espinosa. Deborah was 26 years old, 7 years older than Tommy. She had known him for years. They had been intimate before. And on this night, Deborah was calling Tommy with an offer.

 She told him she had drugs. She told him they could hook up. She told him to meet her. Tommy agreed. He left his friend’s house and drove to meet Deborah in his Camaro. What Tommy didn’t know was that Deborah Espinosa wasn’t calling because she wanted to see him. She was calling because she was part of a plan.

 A plan to rob him. A plan that involved three other people. A plan that would end with Tommy lying dead in the street. Earlier that evening around 9:30 p.m., Deborah Espinosa had left in her own car. But she wasn’t alone in this scheme. A man named Juan Castillo had been calling the home of Francisco Gonzalez multiple times looking for him.

 Juan Castillo was 22 years old. Francisco Gonzalez was 34. They were friends. And on this night, they had a plan. Castillo and Espinosa showed up at the Gonzalez house. Castillo had a gun. He also had a bulletproof vest. They needed a car. They asked to borrow a vehicle belonging to Lucinda Gonzalez, Francisco’s sister. Francisco’s girlfriend, Teresa Quantero, who was 34 years old, agreed to drive the car. The plan was simple.

Deborah Espinosa would lure Tommy Garcia to a secluded location, a lover’s lane on Clamp Avenue in a quiet residential San Antonio neighborhood. She would get him to park to let his guard down. Then Juan Castillo and Francisco Gonzalez would approach wearing ski masks to armed with guns.

 They would rob Tommy of his cash and jewelry. Espinosa would play along, acting like she was a victim, too. And Teresa Quintterero would be the getaway driver. It was supposed to be a simple robbery. No one was supposed to get hurt. That’s what they told themselves. That’s what they claimed later. But that’s not what happened.

 Castillo Gonzalez and Quantero left the Gonzalez house around 9:30 p.m. in Lucinda’s car. Espinosa followed in her own vehicle. They drove to Clamp Avenue and waited. Tommy Garcia arrived and met Deborah. They parked on the quiet residential street. The area was known as a lover’s lane, a place where couples went to be alone. Tommy and Deborah began making out in his Camaro.

They had no idea what was about to happen. Then out of the darkness, two figures approached. Both were wearing ski masks. Both were armed with handguns. One of them was Juan Castillo. The other was Francisco Gonzalez. According to Gonzalez’s later testimony, his gun was broken. It was only for show, he claimed, but both guns were loaded.

 One of the masked men smashed the driver’s side window with the butt of his pistol. Glass shattered. Tommy and Deborah were suddenly face tof face with two armed men. The doors were yanked open. The men demanded Tommy’s money. Tommy refused. He wasn’t going to just hand over everything he had worked for. He tried to escape. He tried to run. And then the shots rang out.

 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tommy Garcia Jr. was shot seven times. He collapsed in the street, bleeding, dying. The masked men fled. Deborah Espinosa ran. She ran to a nearby house, banging on the door, screaming for help. And the people inside called the police, but by the time help arrived, it was too late. Tommy Garcia Jr. was dead.

Police arrived at the scene within minutes. Tommy’s body was lying in the street. His Camaro was still parked on Clamp Avenue. The driver’s side window shattered. Deborah Espinosa was hysterical, claiming she had been a victim, claiming she and Tommy had been ambushed by masked men. But the police weren’t buying it. Not entirely.

 Because as they were canvasing the area, they found Francisco Gonzalez. He was fleeing the scene. He was arrested immediately. Shortly after, Deborah Espinosa was also arrested. The investigation moved quickly. Within days, police had pieced together what had happened. Deborah Espinosa and Francisco Gonzalez both started talking.

 They admitted they had been part of a plan to rob Tommy Garcia, but they both said the same thing. They said they weren’t the shooter. They said Juan Castillo was the one who pulled the trigger. They said Juan Castillo had shot Tommy Garcia seven times. The police began looking for Juan Castillo and they began gathering evidence.

Days after the murder, Lucinda Gonzalez, Francisco’s sister, saw news reports about Tommy Garcia’s killing. She started putting pieces together. She remembered that Juan Castillo had come to her house that night. She remembered that he had borrowed her car. And then days later, Lucinda did something crucial.

 She covertly listened to a phone conversation between Terresa Quantero and Juan Castillo. On that call, Quantero asked what would happen to Francisco Gonzalez, who had been arrested. Juan Castillo answered, “Nothing will happen to him because he didn’t do it. I I did it.” Lucinda wasn’t the only one who heard Juan talk about the murder.

 Brian Brown, a 15-year-old nephew of Lucinda and Francisco Gonzalez, who lived in the same house, later testified that he was riding in a car with Castillo and Quantero just days after the murder. Castillo told him he had to leave town because he had shot someone a bunch of times. Castillo also said he had hidden the gun and the bulletproof vest in a field. But there was more.

 A woman named Jessica Kantu came forward with damning testimony. She said that on December 4th, the day after Tommy Garcia was murdered, she saw Juan Castillo wearing a distinctive gold medallion necklace. She told Castillo the necklace looked familiar. Multiple witnesses testified that Tommy Garcia had been wearing that exact necklace the night he was murdered. It was his signature piece.

Everyone knew it. And now Juan Castillo was wearing it. Within a week of the shooting, police arrested Juan Castillo. He was charged with capital murder in the course of committing robbery. Juan denied everything. He said he wasn’t at the scene. He said he had no idea who shot Tommy Garcia. He said Deborah Espinosa wasn’t even his girlfriend.

 He said the gold jewelry was his, not Tommy’s. Juan maintained his innocence and he would continue to maintain his innocence for the next 15 years all the way to the execution chamber. Juan Castillo went to trial in 2005 in Beexar County. The trial was held before state district judge Maria Teresa Hair. The prosecution was led by assistant district attorneys Crystal Chandler and Kevin Yiri.

 Juan’s defense attorney was Denny Callahan. He’s an experienced lawyer whom the judge later described as thoroughly prepared. The case against Juan was built almost entirely on testimony. There was no physical evidence tying him to the scene. No DNA, no fingerprints, no ballistics matching him to the gun. The gun was never recovered.

 In fact, the only DNA evidence found at the scene belonged to Francisco Gonzalez. His DNA was on one of the Nitsky masks. The second mask did not reveal usable DNA at the time of trial. But the prosecution had something else. They had witnesses, lots of them. Deborah Espinosa took the stand.

 She testified that she had lured Tommy Garcia to Clamp Avenue. She admitted she was part of the plan to rob him. And she testified that Juan Castillo was the shooter. She said she saw him fire the shots that killed Tommy. Francisco Gonzalez took the stand and he admitted he was at the scene wearing a ski mask armed with a gun, but he testified that his gun was broken, that it was only for show.

 And he testified that Juan Castillo was the one who shot Tommy Garcia seven times. Both Deborah Espinosa and Francisco Gonzalez had already accepted plea deals in exchange for their testimony. Espinosa pleaded guilty before the trial and received a 40-year sentence. Gonzalez also received a 40-year sentence.

 Terresa Quantero, the getaway driver, pleaded no contest to a robbery charge and received 20 years. All three would be eligible for parole within 6 years. Deborah Espinosa was out on parole by 2018. Teresa Quantero was released by 2018. Juan Castillo, the only one of the four conspirators to maintain his innocence, was facing the death penalty.

So, the prosecution also presented testimony from Lucinda Gonzalez, who said she had overheard Juan Castillo admit on a phone call that he was the one who did it. They presented testimony from Brian Brown, the 15-year-old, who said Castillo told him he had shot someone a bunch of times and needed to leave town.

 They presented testimony from Jessica Cantu, who said she saw Juan wearing Tommy Garcia’s distinctive gold medallion necklace the day after the murder. And they presented testimony from a jail house informant named Gerardo Gutierrez. Gutierrez testified that he had been bunking near Juan Castillo in the Bessar County Jail. He claimed that Juan had confessed to him, admitting that he had shot Tommy Garcia.

The defense tried to poke holes in the testimony. They argued that Espinosa, Gonzalez, and Quantero all had reasons to lie. When they had received plea deals in exchange for testifying against Juan, they were trying to save themselves. They were putting all the blame on Juan to avoid the death penalty themselves.

The defense argued that there was no physical evidence, no DNA, no fingerprints, no gun, nothing that directly connected Juan Castillo to the murder. But the jury didn’t buy it. They believed the witnesses. They believed Espinosa. They believed Gonzalez. They believed the jailhouse informant. and they believed Jessica Kantu about the necklace.

 On September 27th, 2005, Juan Castillo was found guilty of capital murder. It was a significant date. September 27th would have been Tommy Garcia Jr.’s 21st birthday. After the guilty verdict, the trial moved to the punishment phase where the jury would decide whether Juan should receive the death penalty or life in prison. And then Juan made a decision that shocked everyone.

 He fired his appointed attorney. Juan Castillo decided to represent himself during the punishment phase. His two appointed attorneys remained as standby counsel, but Juan insisted on representing himself. The court determined that he was making a knowing and voluntary decision, and they allowed it. During the punishment phase, the prosecution presented aggravating evidence.

 They presented Juan’s prior criminal record. He had a previous conviction for deadly conduct with a firearm and had served a 2-year sentence. He had been on that sentence when he was arrested for Tommy Garcia’s murder. The prosecution also presented testimony from the mother of Juan’s son. She testified about repeated domestic violence incidents.

 She described how Juan had threatened her, beaten her, terrorized her. Other witnesses testified that Juan was a violent man. They said he had shot a man during a road rage incident. They said he boasted about committing home invasions and robberies. They said he was dangerous, remorseless, and likely to commit violence again if given the chance.

 The jury deliberated and they returned with a recommendation. Juan Castillo should be sentenced to death. On September 27th, 2005, Tommy Garcia Jr.’s ‘s 21st birthday. Judge Maria Teresa Hair sentenced Juan Castillo to death by lethal injection. Juan was taken to the Palinsky unit near Livingston, Texas to await his execution on death row.

 Juan Edward Castillo was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. His childhood was difficult and according to his clemency petition filed by attorney Greg Zlottnik, Juan’s young life was defined by unfair and arbitrary decisions made by the very people who were supposed to be supporting him. His father, his sister, and his mother.

 His parents left him alone at only 7 years old to roam and discover the worst of what the world has to offer. Zlatnik described Juan’s upbringing as an ordeal, one that stretched over years and across state lines, subjecting him to uncertainty about his future and anxiety about his present. Slottnik wrote that Juan’s childhood in no way resembled any childhood worthy of that name.

 By the time Juan was 22 years old, he already had a prison record. He had served time for deadly conduct with a firearm. He had a history of violence, a history of poor decisions, a history that would follow him all the way to death row. But despite his troubled past, Juan insisted he was innocent of Tommy Garcia’s murder. And for the next 13 years, he would fight to prove it.

Juan spent nearly 13 years on death row, filing appeal after appeal, trying to overturn his conviction, trying to save his life. His first major appeal went to the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals. Juan’s attorneys argued that the evidence was insufficient to convict him. They argued that the Texas death penalty was unconstitutionally cruel.

 They argued that the judge had improperly allowed testimony from two accompllices who had clear motivations to lie. Every single claim was rejected. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld his conviction and sentence. In 2011, Juan’s appellet attorney, John Economdy, filed a claim of ineffective counsel.

 On February 2nd, 2011, a writing was held before Judge Maria Teresa Hair, the same judge who had presided over Juan’s trial. Economi argued that Juan had received ineffective legal representation at trial, that his attorney had failed to adequately defend him, and that Juan deserved a new trial. Judge Hair disagreed.

 She said that Denny Callahan, Juan’s trial attorney, had prepared thoroughly and had vast experience. She noted that Juan had often ignored his legal counsel’s advice during the trial, particularly when he chose to represent himself during the punishment phase. The claim was denied. Juan’s conviction and sentence stood. But then in 2013, something significant happened.

 Gerardo Gutierrez, the jail house informant who had testified that Juan confessed to him in the Beexar County Jail. He signed an affidavit recanting his testimony. In the affidavit, Gutierrez wrote, “I described what Juan Castillo supposedly told me about the capital murder. Juan Castillo never told me this information about this capital murder case.

 This testimony was untrue about Juan Castillo. I made up this testimony to try to help myself. Gutierrez admitted he had lied. He admitted he had fabricated Huan’s confession in order to get favorable treatment from prosecutors. This recantation became a major focus of Huan’s later appeals. His attorneys argued that the jury had been presented with false testimony, that Gutierrez’s lies had contributed to Huan’s conviction, and that Juan deserved a new trial.

 But the courts were skeptical. Prosecutors argued that even without Gutierrez’s testimony, there was still overwhelming evidence against Juan. It there were still two eyewitnesses who placed him at the scene and identified him as the shooter. There was still testimony about the gold necklace.

 There was still testimony from family members who heard Juan confess. The recantation, prosecutors argued, didn’t change the fundamental facts of the case. Still, Juan’s attorneys pressed forward. They filed motions. They filed appeals. They argued that the recantation was evidence of Juan’s innocence. And for years, the legal battles dragged on.

 In April 2017, Juan’s council filed a motion requesting DNA testing on a knit cap that had been sent to the crime lab in 2003, but had never been fully tested. They argued that new DNA technology might reveal evidence that could prove Juan’s innocence or at least cast doubt on his guilt. The Begsar County District Attorney’s Office opposed the testing, but the court never issued a decision on the motion before Juan’s execution.

 By 2017, the state of Texas was ready to execute Juan Castillo, and over the course of one year, Juan would receive four different execution dates. The first execution date was set for May 2017, but it was rescheduled due to a technicality. The Beexar County District Attorney’s Office requested a reset because the notice to the defense of the scheduled execution did not arrive within the 90-day threshold required by law.

 The execution was rescheduled for September 7th, 2017. But again, it was delayed. This time, the delay came at the request of Beexar County District Attorney Nico Leood. The reason was Hurricane Harvey, which had devastated the Texas coast about a week before the scheduled execution. Several members of Juan’s legal team lived and worked in Houston, which had been hit particularly hard by the storm.

 The request was granted and the execution was rescheduled for December 14th, 2017. But on November 28th, 2017, just weeks before the third scheduled execution date, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay. The court wanted to investigate the claims of false testimony related to Gerardo Gutierrez’s 2013 recantation.

 The case was sent back to the trial court to examine the recantation and determine whether it warranted a new trial. For a brief moment, Juan and his family had hope. Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for. Maybe the courts would finally take the recantation seriously. Maybe Juan would get a new trial. But that hope was short-lived.

 On December 1st, 2017, just 3 days after the Court of Criminal Appeals sent the case back to the trial court, to Judge Maria Teresa Hair issued her decision. She ruled that Gutierrez’s recantation was not credible. In her opinion, Judge Hair wrote that Gutierrez’s 2013 affidavit made no explanation for how he, while incarcerated in the Beexar County Adult Detention Center, independently manufactured a version of events consistent with multiple other witnesses.

 In other words, the judge believed that Gutierrez’s original testimony must have been true because it matched what other witnesses had said. The decision was made within one day of prosecutors filing their brief and before the defense had a chance to respond. Juan’s attorney, Amanda Marzulo from the Texas Defender Service, called the decision highly unusual and strange.

She said it was a clear due process violation. But prosecutors responded that federal courts had already reviewed Gutierrez’s recantation and rejected it before it went back to the state courts. They argued that the affidavit had already floated through the justice system for a while and had been thoroughly examined.

 The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Judge Hair’s ruling in early 2018. The stay was lifted. A fourth execution date was set for May 16th, 2018. This time there would be no more delays. As Juan’s execution date approached, his legal team made one final push. In May 2018, the Texas Defender Service, which had recently taken on Juan’s case, discovered new evidence.

They found a video of a woman who had previously claimed Juan confessed to her. In the video, the woman was telling police that Juan never told her he was the trigger man. So, they also found a new statement from a man who now said he had inaccurately testified that Juan confessed to him. Juan’s attorneys argued that the prosecution had withheld evidence and had presented false or misleading testimony.

They filed emergency motions asking for more time to investigate. They filed a petition for a writ of surgerary with the US Supreme Court asking the highest court in the land to review Juan’s case. The Supreme Court denied the petition on Monday, May 14th, just 2 days before the execution.

 The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals also denied Juan’s appeals on the same day. The Texas Board of Pardons and Parrolles denied Juan’s clemency petition on Monday, May 14th. Juan’s attorneys made a final plea to Governor Greg Abbott are asking for a 30-day reprieve to allow the new legal team to fully investigate the new evidence. Amanda Marzulo wrote to the governor.

From the moment of his arrest through clemency, Juan has had a litany of lawyers who did not fully examine serious questions regarding his guilt. I am sure that your office is inundated with defense council please for mercy. Yet, this is a request that I do not enter lightly. Governor Abbott did not respond. He took no action.

 The execution would proceed as scheduled. Juan Castillo had refused multiple plea deals over the years. He had been offered plea bargains three times that would have removed the death penalty from the table. All he had to do was plead guilty. But Juan refused. He was so positive he would get the case dismissed, so certain he was innocent that he refused to plead guilty.

 In an interview, Juan had said, “I was so positive I’d get the case dismissed. I refuse to plead guilty. So, I go to trial. I don’t want to die, but at the same time, I would hate myself every day if I did that. Juan maintained his innocence to the very end. He insisted he wasn’t at the scene. He insisted he didn’t shoot Tommy Garcia.

 He insisted the whole case was built on lies from people trying to save themselves. But the courts didn’t believe him. The juries didn’t believe him. And on May 16th, 2018, the state of Texas was going to execute him. Juan’s mother, Jun Castillo, was 73 years old at the time of her son’s execution. She had lived through what she described as 15 years of darkness.

 Over those years, she had experienced flashes of hope. A man had shown up at her door claiming to have proof of Juan’s innocence. She, a stranger, had called to offer an apology from the real killer. And three times, Juan’s execution had been cancelled or delayed. Each time June allowed herself to hope.

 Each time she believed maybe, just maybe, her son would be spared. But then the bad days would come, the appeals would be denied, the execution dates would be rescheduled, and the devil, as she put it, would hit again. On Monday, May 14th, 2018, when Juan’s final clemency petition was denied and his final appeals were rejected, Jun Castillo knew it was over.

 And that’s what it felt like on Monday. She said her son was going to die. May 16th, 2018, Juan Castillo’s final day on Earth. Juan was moved to a holding cell at the Walls unit in Huntsville, Texas, adjacent to the execution chamber. He had declined any media interviews in the days leading up to his execution, and he had spent his final hours alone preparing to die.

There is no record of Juan requesting a last meal. He may have declined, or the details were simply not made public. At 6:00 p.m., the execution process began. Juan was escorted into the execution chamber. He was strapped to a gurnie, his arms extended. IV lines inserted into his veins. Witnesses began gathering in the observation room.

 Among them were members of Tommy Garcia’s family. His mother was there. His stepmother was there. His brother Mark Garcia was there. Other relatives were there. They had waited 15 years for this moment. They wanted to see Juan Castillo held accountable for taking Tommy’s life. Noticeably absent were any members of Juan’s family.

 His mother, June, did not attend. No friends came to witness. Juan would die alone. Are with only the family of his victim watching. At 6:21 p.m., the warden asked Juan if he had any final words. Juan turned his head slightly. He looked toward the witnesses, but he never looked at Tommy Garcia’s family. He never acknowledged them. He never apologized.

 Instead, Juan said, “To everyone that has been there for me, you know who you are. Love y’all. See y’all on the other side. That’s it.” That was it. No apology, no remorse, no acknowledgement of Tommy Garcia or his family. Just a goodbye to the people who had supported him. At 6:21 p.m., the lethal dose of pentabarbital began flowing into Juan’s veins.

 Texas used a single drug protocol for executions. Pentabarbital is a barbiterate that acts as a sedative and in high doses stops breathing and the heart. As the drug took effect, Juan struggled. He tried to lift his head. Shia tried to look down at his feet and then he said something that witnesses would never forget. I can taste this [ __ ] [ __ ] does burn.

The drug was burning as it entered his bloodstream. Juan’s face contorted. He took several quick breaths. The breaths became snores. And then they stopped. Juan’s chest stopped rising and falling, his body went still. At 6:44 p.m., 23 minutes after the injection began, Juan Edward Castillo was pronounced dead.

 The curtain closed. The execution was over. After Juan was pronounced dead, one of Tommy Garcia’s relatives exclaimed, “We’ve got justice. Thank you.” The family members filed out of the witness room, many of them in tears. Mark Garcia, Tommy’s brother, spoke to reporters outside the prison. Flanked by tearful family members, Mark said, “15 years we’ve been waiting for this day.

Uh, Juan decided to take my brother’s life and today was the day that he had to face the consequences. Mark added that he felt justice had been served, but that Juan got off easy. He said, “My brother didn’t get a second chance. My brother didn’t get to file any appeals or ask for forgiveness.” Mark also expressed frustration that Juan had never apologized.

 for him to look over and not even acknowledge. I mean, it was tough, but we weren’t expecting him to apologize. For Tommy Garcia’s family, the execution brought closure, but it didn’t bring Tommy back. It didn’t erase 15 years of pain. It didn’t heal the wound of losing a 19-year-old son, brother, and friend. Juan Castillo was the sixth person executed in Texas in 2018 and the 11th person executed nationwide that year.

 He spent nearly 13 years on death row maintaining his innocence, refusing plea deals, fighting through four scheduled execution dates. In the end, none of it mattered. The state of Texas executed him anyway. The case of Juan Edward Castillo raises difficult questions. Questions about the reliability of testimony from accompllices who accept plea deals.

Questions about jailhouse informants who later recant. Questions about cases built on witness testimony with no physical evidence. Questions about whether the right person was held accountable. Deborah Espinosa, who admitted luring Tommy Garcia to his death, received a 40-year sentence and was out on parole within years.

 Francisco Gonzalez, whose DNA was found on a ski mask at the scene, received a 40-year sentence. Terresa Quantero, who admitted being the getaway driver, received 20 years and was released. Juan Castillo, who maintained his innocence, uh, who had no DNA at the scene, who claimed he wasn’t even there, was executed. Was justice served? The Garcia family believed it was.

 They believed Juan was the shooter, that he took Tommy’s life, and that he deserved to die for it. Juan’s family believed he was innocent. They believed he was failed by the justice system, that he never received a fair chance, that he was executed despite serious questions about his guilt. We will never know for certain what happened on Clamp Avenue on December 3rd, 2003.

We know Tommy Garcia Jr. was murdered. We know he was shot seven times. We know four people conspired to rob him, but we will never know beyond all doubt who pulled the trigger. What we do know is this. On May 16th, 2018, Juan Edward Castillo was strapped to a gurnie, injected with a lethal dose of penttoarbital.

 I and pronounced dead 23 minutes later. He died maintaining his innocence. He died without apologizing to Tommy Garcia’s family. He died after 15 years of legal battles, four scheduled execution dates, and countless appeals. Nearly 13 years on death row. No last meal recorded. No family members present to witness.

 No acknowledgement of the victim. Just the words, “Love y’all. See y’all on the other side.” And then a needle in the arm, a complaint that the drug burned, and a heart that stopped beating. The case of Juan Edward Castillo is now closed. Justice such as it is was served.