He was executed as scheduled on March 27, 2018.
On October 30, 2017, an appeal by Rodriguez to the US Supreme Court was denied. Rodriguez's lawyer appealed the sentence based on a potential Brady disclosure violation by District Attorney Matt Powell for failing to disclose information regarding activities of the medical examiner who performed one of the autopsies. During his incarceration, he contributed to inmate blog Minutes before Six on matters of criminal justice and politics. He was convicted of the capital murder of Summer, and he was sentenced to death by lethal injection. Rodriguez was initially offered a plea deal that involved him pleading guilty to the murders of both women, but he refused at the last minute. He told a similar story regarding Rogers, who he claimed became violent after he refused to pay her for having sex with him. Joanna had been missing since May 2004.ĭuring his interrogation, Rodriguez claimed that he and Summer entered a hotel room on the night of September 11, had consensual sex through the early hours of September 12, and that Rodriguez strangled her after she pulled a knife on him. In October 2006, the remains of Joanna Kathryn Rogers were found in the same landfill as that of Summer Baldwin after an extensive search. He was also identified on CCTV footage as having bought the suitcase from a nearby Walmart in the early hours of September 12. Rodriguez was linked to the killing via a UPC on the suitcase, and he had been arrested by September 15. Summer was also around 10 weeks pregnant when she was killed, which served as an aggravating factor at Rodriguez's 2008 trial. Summer, a 29-year-old native of Washington state, was working as a sex worker in Lubbock when she disappeared two days earlier, and had also been serving as a witness in a federal counterfeiting case, bringing her murder to the attention of the FBI.
She was found to have died of asphyxiation and to have suffered numerous beatings. On September 13, 2005, the body of Summer Lee Baldwin was found in a Lubbock landfill.
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