Family of slain girl expresses agony
By Erica Molina Johnson / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 05/15/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT

The sentencing of convicted murderer David Renteria was tense and emotional as family members of the child he killed choked back tears and angrily told him how he hurt their family, and then Renteria's mother shouted desperate words of support to her son at the end of the hearing Wednesday.

Esmeralda Frausto, sister of 5-year-old Alexandra Flores who was abducted and strangled in 2001, stared down Renteria and told him he did not deserve to live.

"The Bible speaks of forgiveness, but every tear I see my mom cry, every tear I see my family cry, every single time that we visit my sister in her grave, every holiday, every birthday, I wish you were dead," Frausto told Renteria during victims' impact statements made moments after he was sentenced to death by Judge Mary Anne Bramblett.

"You deserve to die, nothing less," she said.

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