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He is set to be put to death by lethal injection at 6 p.m. at
the state's death chamber in Huntsville.
If the execution goes ahead, it would be the 522nd in Texas
since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in
1976, the most of any state.
Vasquez and two co-defendants were convicted of strangling
Juanita Ybarra, 51, in 1998 for not paying a 10 percent cut of
her drug sales to the Mexican Mafia gang, the attorney general's
office said.
The two co-defendents testified against Vasquez and received
lesser sentences.
Vasquez has a long criminal history, including being part of a
group that killed a man by pummeling him with a crowbar, dousing
him with gasoline and setting him afire, the attorney general's
office said.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz)
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