Texas man sentenced to death for killing former boss and a woman

<p>A 21-year-old son of Christian missionaries has been sentenced to death for killing a woman after going to the wrong apartment while looking for his former boss, whom he later shot to death.</p><p>Noah Espada apologized to the families of the victims after being sentenced to death Wednesday, about a week after he was convicted of capital murder in the double slaying.</p><p>"Above all, I don't think words can express the meaning of the sorrow I feel. I want you all to know, though, that no matter what happens, I won't ever forget what I did. I won't ever look at myself in the same way," Espada said. "As a matter of fact, I hate myself the way you hate me. I have no excuse. I'm sorry."</p><p>Espada said in confessions revealed during the trial that he killed Luther "Luke" Scott, 30, who had fired him from a popular River Walk nightclub two weeks earlier.</p><p>Espada said he suffocated Sandra Ramos, 29, two days earlier when he broke into the wrong apartment looking for Scott.</p><p>Ramos' father, Julio, of Peachtree City, Ga., shared words of peace.</p><p>"There is nothing I can say that will bring back my daughter or that will bring back Luke. I am truly sorry for the suffering the Espada family will go through in the years to come. I can only hope that, through their faith and beliefs, they will come to have peace in their hearts," Ramos said.</p><p>Scott's mother vented her anguish.</p><p>"I cannot tell you how much you have torn apart my family," said Alicia Scott-Abboud, of Annapolis, Md. "I just want you to know that, today, you are here because of the decisions you made. You'll never measure up to be half the man my son was."</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cda9a4)</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x1cdccd4)</p>