Draft:Ivan Cantu

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| caption = Mugshot of Cantu taken by TDCJ

| birth_name = Ivan Abner Cantu

| birth_date = {{birth date|1973|6|14}}

| birth_place = Dallas, Texas, US

| death_date = {{death date and age|2024|2|28|1973|6|14}}

| death_place = Huntsville Unit, Huntsville, Texas, US

| death_cause = Execution by lethal injection

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| conviction = 2001
Capital murder (two counts)

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| trial_start = August 15, 2001

| trial_end = October 26, 2001

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| victims = James Edwin Mosqueda, 27
Amy Michelle Kitchen, 22

| date = November 4, 2000

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| states = Texas

| locations = North Dallas

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Ivan Abner Cantu (June 14, 1973 – February 28, 2024) was an American convicted double murderer from Dallas, Texas, convicted of the double murder of his cousin, James Mosqueda, and Mosqueda's girlfriend, Amy Kitchen, who were shot in their home. The shooting occurred on November 4, 2000, in North Dallas. Cantu was found guilty by a Collin County jury on October 16, 2001. The evidence that was used in his conviction was later deemed to be questionable by his supporters, who claimed that one of the two key prosecution witnesses admitted he had lied. His case was championed by well-known anti-capital punishment campaigner Sister Helen Prejean and in a podcast by legal campaigner Matt Duff.https://www.texasobserver.org/matt-duff-podcastings-new-poirot/

Cantu maintained his innocence until his execution at the Huntsville Unit on February 28, 2024.