Moises Sandoval Mendoza, a rapist and killer described by one prosecutor as one of the most "violent, sadistic men" he'd ever encountered, is set to be executed in Texas on Wednesday.

Mendoza, 40, is set to die by lethal injection for the murder of 20-year-old Rachelle O'Neil Tolleson on March 18, 2004, in Farmersville, Texas, just northeast of Dallas. If the execution moves forward, Mendoza will be the third inmate executed in Texas this year and the 13th in the nation.

At the time of her death, Tolleson was a new mother to her 6-month-old daughter Avery.

"I don’t think we’ll ever heal. I don’t think a mother ever truly heals from the loss of a child,” Tolleson's mother, Pam ...
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