The death sentence of a Texas man in a brutal triple murder that claimed a four-year-old boy among the victims was met with the approval of surviving family members.
“Oh, we’re happy,” Frances Rivera, the mother of 24-year-old Maya Rivera, who was killed along with 28-year-old Ray Shawn Hudson Sr. and their four-year-old son, Ray Shawn Hudson. Jr., in 2018, he told Fox 26 Houston this week.
“This is for baby Ray. This is all for baby Ray.”
It took a jury just five hours to convict the suspect in the murders, Robert Allen Satterfield, 40, of capital murder, and another 45 minutes to conclude that he deserved the death penalty.
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Robert Allen Satterfield was sentenced to death for the 2018 murder of a family of three.
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“He won’t be able to touch his kids, or hug his kids the way we can’t hug and touch our kids,” Rivera said. “He won’t be able to do that either. If he stays on death row five, 10 or 30 years from now, we know he won’t be able to enjoy life.”
Satterfield murdered the family and burned their bodies in a pit. He was detained by authorities days later after being pulled over while he was driving the car he had stolen from them.
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The Rivera family told Fox 26 Houston that they are happy that the man who murdered their relatives has been sentenced to death.
(Fox 26 Houston)
“They were put in a pit like trash. It was very heartbreaking to see the actual burn pit and what they had to go through,” Rivera said. “Baby Ray watched his mother get shot. The only reason he killed baby Ray was because he could identify him.”
Wharton County District Attorney Dawn Allison told Fox 26 Houston that Satterfield was a habitual criminal with gang affiliations who showed no remorse for the crime and displayed signs of paranoia.
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The Rivera family reacts to the news that the man who killed their relatives has been sentenced to death
(Fox 26 Houston)
“He felt that he was being disrespected. It could have been robbery, it could have been for the sake of a gun,” Allison said.
