Mary Lou Keel
Judge 232nd District Court
RECEIVED IN
1201 Franklin
COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
Houston, Texas 77002
MAY 22 2015
(713) 755-6778
May 19, 2015
Bernardo Aban Tercero
TDCJ # 00999369
Polunsky Unit
3872 FM 350 South
Livingston, Texas 77351
Dear Mr. Tercero:
Enclosed is a copy of the trial court's Order setting your execution for Auj^Tst
26, 2015.
cc: Joni White Jeremy C. Greenwell
Assistant Director Assistant Attorney General
Classifications & Records Di Attorney General's Office
TDCJ - ID 209 W. 14th Street
P. O. Box 99 Austin, Texas 78701
Huntsville, Texas 77342-0099
Abel Acosta Don Vernay
Clerk Attorney at Law
Court of Criminal Appeals 1604 Golf Course Road SE
P. O. Box 12308 Rio Rancho NM 87124
Capitol Station
Austin, Texas 78711
Maria Ramirez Lynn Hardaway
Board of Pardons & Paroles Assistant District Attorney
Executive Clemency Unit Harris County Dist. Atty.
8610 Shoal Creek 1201 Franklin Street
Austin, Texas 78758 Houston, Texas 77002
Joshua Reiss
Harris County Dist. Atty.
1201 Franklin Street
Houston, Texas 77002
CAUSE NO. 762351 omm^ Chris Daniel'
District Cferk
STATE OF TEXAS
§ IN THE 232ND DISTfj^CpyRJgj,-
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By_ llu.ll. county, Tox.r
Deputy
BERNARDO ABAN TERCERO
§ HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS
EXECUTION ORDER
This Court, having received the mandate from the Court of Criminal Appeals affirming the
Defendant's conviction in the above styled and numbered cause and having received notice that
the Court of Criminal Appeals has denied habeas relief in the defendant's initial petition for writ of
habeas corpus, cause no. 762351-A, now enters the following Order:
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Defendant, BERNARDO ABAN TERCERO, who has been
adjudged to be guilty of Capital Murder as charged in the indictment and whose punishment has
been assessed at Death by the verdict of the jury and judgment of the Court, shall be kept in
custody by the Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions
Division at Huntsville, Texas until Wednesday, the 26th day of August, 2015, upon which day, at
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division at Huntsville, Texas, at
some time after the hour of 6:00 p.m., in a room arranged for the purpose of execution, the said
Director, acting by and through the executioner designated by said Director as provided by law, is
hereby commanded, ordered and directed to carry out this sentence of death by intravenous
injection of asubstance or substances in a lethal quantity sufficient to cause the death of the said
BERNARDO ABAN TERCERO and until the said BERNARDO ABAN TERCERO is dead, such procedure
to be determined and supervised by the.said Director of the Institutional Division of the Texas
Department of Criminal Justice.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Clerk of this Court shall issue and deliver to the Sheriff of
Harris County, Texas, a Death Warrant in accordance with this Order, directed to the Director of
the Texas Department of Criminal Justice - Correctional Institutions Division at Huntsville, Texas,
commanding him, the said Director, to put into execution the Judgment of Death against the said
BERNARDO ABAN TERCERO.
IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the Sheriff of Harris County, upon receipt of said Death
Warrant, is to deliver said Death Warrant to the Director of the Texas Department of Criminal
Justice - Correctional Institutions Division at Huntsville, Texas and shall take receipt of said Death
Warrant and return the receipt to the Clerk of this Court.
SIGNED AND ENTERED this /I day of