Christopher Chubasco Wilkins

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Christopher Chubasco Wilkins
Born	(1968-09-29)September 29, 1968 Harris County, Texas, United States
Died	January 11, 2017(2017-01-11) (aged 48) Huntsville, Texas, United States
Criminal status	Executed by lethal injection on January 11, 2017
Conviction(s)	Capital murder (March 2008)
Criminal charge	Capital murder
Penalty	Death (March 12, 2008)
Details
Victims	Willie Freeman Mike Silva Gilbert Vallejo
Date	October 27, 2005
Date apprehended	October 28, 2005

Christopher Chubasco Wilkins (September 29, 1968 – January 11, 2017) was a Texas inmate sentenced to death and executed for a 2005 double murder.^[1]

On October 27, 2005, Wilkins shot and killed Willie Freeman and Mike Silva. Freeman had allegedly cheated Wilkins in a drug deal; Silva was with Freeman at the time and thus witnessed the killing. The numbers "666" and a pentagram matching one of Wilkins' numerous tattoos were found carved into Silva's car at the scene of the murders. Wilkins' fingerprints were also found. The previous day, Wilkins also allegedly killed Gilbert Vallejo outside a bar in south Fort Worth after a dispute over a payphone.

On October 28, Wilkins was arrested and charged with the murders of Freeman and Silva; he later also confessed to murdering Vallejo. He was sentenced to death on March 12, 2008, after only 90 minutes of deliberation by the jury. When asked by his defense lawyer if he wanted to die, Wilkins said: "I guess, subconsciously, I've been trying to get myself killed since I was 12 or 13 years old. I don't have nothing to live for. I haven't been any good to anybody for the last 20 years and I won't be for the next 20 or the 20 after that."

Wilkins was initially scheduled to be executed on October 28, 2015 (which, coincidentally, was the 10th anniversary of his arrest). His execution was stayed and later rescheduled to January 11, 2017. Wilkins was executed by lethal injection on January 11, 2017, at 6:29 PM. He was 48 years old.

See also[]

• Capital punishment in Texas
• Crime in Texas
• List of people executed in the United States in 2017
• List of people executed in Texas, 2010–2019

References[]

External links[]

• "Inmate Information – Christopher Wilkins", Texas Department of Criminal Justice