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Man sentenced to die for killing 7-year-old boy back in 1992

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By ABC13
HOUSTON

Investigators say Obel Cruz-Garcia kidnapped a seven-year-old boy during in a home invasion in 1992. The boy's stabbed body was found weeks later.

DNA evidence linked Cruz-Garcia to the crime two decades later while he was serving time in a Puerto Rican prison.

The same jury that convicted Obel Cruz-Garcia sentenced him to death.

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