A convicted Hispanic sex offender who snatched a seven-year-old girl before raping and strangling her begged for forgiveness minutes before he was put to death

Guadalupe Esparza, 46, was sentenced to lethal injection for the brutal killing in San Antonio, Texas of Alyssa Maria Vasquez, who was murdered just after finishing the first grade in 1999. The child killer was administered with lethal drugs in Texas, but not before he had pleaded for forgiveness from Alyssa's family. Esparza had been convicted in the past for assault, sexual assault and cocaine possession.