Pablo Lucio Vasquez was put to death by lethal injection at the Texas state death chamber in Huntsville.
The 38-year-old was pronounced dead at 6.35pm local time , officials confirmed. Vasquez killed 12-year-old David Cardenas in the town of Donna in Texas in April 1998.
On the night of the murder, Vasquez, then 20, attended a party with his 15-year-old cousin Andy Chapa and met the boy.
Afterwards, the three were walking home when when Vasquez - who was drunk and high on cocaine - picked up a pipe and hit David over the head, then cut his throat.
The cousins took David's body to a field, where they scalped him, cut off one of his arms and part of the other and removed the skin from his back.
During his trial, Vasquez said: “The devil was telling me to take [David's head] away from him.”
On a videotaped confession shown to the jury, he said: "One side of my head said, 'You did wrong'.
"The other side said, 'Keep doing it. Keep doing it'."'
Daily Mirror
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