"Suitcase Killer" Facing Execution:  A man, known as the "suitcase killer" is scheduled to be executed in Texas this evening.  Fox News reports that Rosendo Rodriquez III,  was sentenced to death for the September 12, 2005 rape and murder of 29-year-old Summer Baldwin   The victim's badly-beaten body was found in a suitcase at a landfill five days after the murder.  She was 10 weeks pregnant.  An autopsy revealed that she died of blunt-force trauma and asphyxiation and that she might have been alive when she was stuffed into the suitcase.  Overwhelming evidence linked Rodriquez to the murder, including his admission that he killed her but claimed that it was in self defense.  Rodriguez also admitted to killing 16-year-old Joanna Rogers a year before he killed Baldwin.  The young girl's body was also found stuffed in a suitcase.  The 2011 decision by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, upholding his conviction and death sentence, indicates that evidence presented at the sentencing hearing included detailed statements from five young women who claimed to have been raped by Rodriguez.  In a last-minute appeal, Rodriguez argues that he is innocent, and challenged the credibility of the medical examiner's testimony.  

Illegal Arrested For Raping Oregon Girl:  A 24-year-old Guatemalan in the U.S. illegally is being held by ICE and awaiting trial on charges for multiple sexual assaults on a 14-year-old Oregon girl.  Jack Heffernan if the Daily Astorian reports that Anastacio Eugenio Lopez-Fabian was arrested in February for the sexual assaults which began in 2016.  He was deported to Guatemala in 2013 and 2014, but illegally crossed the border again and settled in the town of Seaside, Oregon.  After the suspect posted $25,000 for bail, he was released from custody.  Earlier this month ICE agents arrested Lopez-Fabian in a courthouse parking lot and took him to a federal detention center in Tacoma.  The county sheriff told reporters that after a federal judge in Portland ruled that detaining illegals for ICE was a 4th Amendment violation, sheriffs have been reluctant to hold them.  "Believe me, we want to hold these guys," he said.  In the meantime, U.S. Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon, has proposed legislation to prohibit immigration arrests at courthouses, schools and health clinics.  When asked about this the sheriff said he does not have a problem with ICE arrests at these places, "We're worried about the actual criminals that are causing problems and doing harm."