It’s far from a death sentence.
A New York project manager had to tell friends on Monday that he would not be executed after he mistakenly identified reality star Kim Kardashian as a death row inmate who coincidentally shares his name.
Ivan A. Cantu warned friends on Facebook that he was not on death row but had been misidentified by Kardashian. Kardashian accidentally shared a photo of him to her 364 million Instagram followers instead of a photo of death row inmate Ivan A. Cantu. He is scheduled to be executed in Texas on Wednesday.
“Dear friends and family, I will not be executed. The idiots who run @kimkardashian used my photo to replace Ivan “Abner” Cantu.” The project manager wrote on Facebook:
father told TMZ He had heard about the mix-up from his family, but because Monday was his 60th birthday, he initially thought they were playing a prank on him.
Cantu’s friends seemed to find humor in the situation, with many wishing him a happy birthday in the comments section of his post.
Cantu told TMZ that she wouldn’t say no to an apology after the debacle, but the post was eventually deleted from Kardashian’s social media and the Austin American-Statesman’s article on the death row case It was replaced with an editorial.
The 43-year-old Skims founder, who once dreamed of becoming a lawyer, shared a text message campaign with his followers on Wednesday advocating for a delay in the execution of inmates.
Cantu was convicted by a jury in 2000 of the murders of his cousin James Mosqueda, 27, and Mosqueda’s fiancee, Amy Kitchen, 22. has long maintained his innocence, claiming that a rival drug dealer killed his cousin. .
His execution by lethal injection had already been postponed twice, once in 2012 and once in 2023.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals later denied the request for an evidentiary hearing and set a new execution date for Wednesday.
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