OKLAHOMA CITY — The Pardon and Parole Board on Tuesday rejected the clemency request for a man facing execution after he told the board he did not deserve nor want clemency.
Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez, 70, said he only attended his clemency hearing to apologize to the daughters of Olimpia Fisher, the woman he killed in 2003. The board voted 3-1 against recommending clemency, paving the way for Cuesta-Rodriguez to be executed on Aug. 13 by lethal injection.
With the exception of saying in English that “I don’t want any clemency” and didn’t “want any mercy,” Cuesta-Rodriguez addressed the board and Fisher’s family in Spanish. A translator sitting next to him at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, where he attended the hearing remotely, translated…