Aug. 12, 2026
Triple Execution Day Part 2: Oklahoma To Execute Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez “The Girlfriend Murderer”
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RSS Feed Oklahoma plans to execute its third inmate of the year, putting 70-year-old Carlos Cuesta-Rodriguez to death for the 2003 murder of his girlfriend, Olympic Fisher. Rodriguez first confronted Fisher and shot her in the right eye, she survived, but once police arrived, he shot a second bullet, hitting her in the left eye, killing her. Rodriguez doesn’t deny the crime and has expressed regret, telling the parole board that he understands it’s time “for me to pay for what I did.”
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00:00:02
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Wednesday, August twelfth.
00:00:05
Speaker 2: And Rocky Road ice cream and donuts.
00:00:09
Speaker 1: That was a part of the final meal for a death row inmates scheduled to die tomorrow. Rocky Road ice cream and donuts for a guy who is on death row for killing a woman by shooting her in both of her eyes. Welcome everybody to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are previewing the executions robe and what is a pretty extraordinary day in the US three executions on the same day. We saw Florida have two on the same day itself here recently, but this is this is a bit much.
00:00:43
Speaker 2: We don't see this a lot.
00:00:44
Speaker 3: No, it hasn't happened since twenty ten, so more than a decade since the United States has seen three inmates executed in three different states. And it just so happens, yes to fall on Thursday, August thirteenth. And this is another inmate who has spent decades on death row. His crime was in two thousand and three. So Carlos Questo Rodriguez Questa Rodriguez is seventy years old now, but he was forty seven at the time when he murdered his girlfriend. But this is one of those stories where we always say this, and unfortunately it's often true. The most dangerous time for a woman is the day or the time when she decides to leave an abusive relationship.
00:01:36
Speaker 2: This is this exact story that.
00:01:37
Speaker 3: Is exactly the story here. Yes, this is incredibly, incredibly tragic, as they all are as we go over what these men have been convicted of doing. But seventy year old Carlos Questa Rodriguez back in two thousand and three, Yeah, his girlfriend was done. She had had enough. He had strangled her, he had threatened her. He installed a mirror in their bedrooms who he could watch her. He was accusing her of flirting with or cheating on him with a coworker. He was a possessive, controlling, abusive boyfriend. And she finally finally said I'm leaving.
00:02:18
Speaker 1: So, as the story goes here, she made this decision Robes to leave and she packed up, so she was serious about it, and her pregnant daughter was staying with them all at the time. So the way the story goes is, they packed up to leave, but they didn't leave.
00:02:42
Speaker 2: They didn't leave that night.
00:02:44
Speaker 1: Because they thought Robes they would be in relative safety given that Carlos quest of Rodriguez drank a bala tequila. Dah, he's passed out, it's gonna be drunk. We can go ahead and sleep here for the night, get up, won't be bothered. And that's not what happened.
00:03:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, they thought they'd have a better fresher start in the morning, better to get a good night's sleep first. But what happened, unfortunately, is Carlos woke up around four thirty in the morning and confronted her, and initially he shot her in the right eye and she survived, but as police came to the home, he finished the job by shooting her in her left eye as well, and that ultimately ended her life.
00:03:35
Speaker 1: And the victim here was talking about is forty year old Olympic Fishers her name, and she was, yes, the girlfriend or soon to be ex girlfriend. He woke up, yes, at four thirty in the morning and confronted her. But Robes what they describe and what ensued is really an incredible violent struggle between three people right including the eighteen year old who was pregnant in there, trying to fight him off, trying to get this situation under control, trying to save her mother, and yes, after he had shot her in the eye. This took time the police got there, but this is all within a ten minute period. Eight minutes they got there and she was still alive after being shot in the eye. Police were trying to breach the door. That's when they heard another gunshot. He shot her. Why did that? I don't know, Robes, what since that makes him? Why but to shoot her in both of her eyes, to think she survived one of them, which was catastrophic enough, but shot her in both eyes and killed this woman. This is the guy now who is on.
00:04:45
Speaker 2: Death row.
00:04:46
Speaker 1: And even though Robes he has you know, his lawyers have done their job, and then he still have some stuff pending. This is the guy, and we'll explain here in a second. Doesn't seem like he's necessarily fighting too hard to delay this any further. And it sounds like, I don't know if it's sincere or not he has some remorse. We'll get into his quote in a second. But Robes the viciousness of this crime again, there's some what do they call them? Sometimes circumstances they're mitigating circumstances, right, Some of these things aggravating aggravatances, mitigating aggravating, not mitigating. These are aggravating robes. There are some viciousness of some of these crimes that we've been covering that just.
00:05:36
Speaker 2: We get it.
00:05:37
Speaker 3: It's it's so sad because there was an eyewitness to this all and that was her eighteen year old pregnant daughter, who, by the way, is still speaking out today and has been waiting for this day when her mother's killer will finally pay the ultimate price. But to think that her mom was sleeping in an extra bedroom, the daughter hears the fight, tries to bring her into her own bedroom to help to break up the fight. But look, she was able to call for help, and you'd think, Okay, I've got police on the way. To think that police were knocking or breaking down the door trying to get in, and look, she even used a baseball bat to hit him to try and protect her mom before she ran for help. And just to think that she was so close to saving her and the officers were so close to getting to her kicking the front door and like trying to get in through the windows, but there were metal burglar bars in front of the windows that the police couldn't get in that way. And as they're trying to get in as this situation is heating up, they hear the final gunshot, and I just cannot even imagine the trauma that that young woman at the time eighteen years old, pregnant, This woman was about to become a grandmother, and to think that all of that was lost in that moment and she was so close to saving her mother. I just did to be there where it happened, when it happened, to witness it happening. That is just an overwhelming amount of grief that would never leave you.
00:07:15
Speaker 1: Oh this is They describe such a violent scene in that room of struggle, and to think, gro you survive getting shot in the eye and help is on the other side of the door.
00:07:28
Speaker 3: So close, almost there, and look to hear her daughter describe him, and she's given plenty of interviews, but she said he was an extremely over obsessive, selfish, calculated person. Every trigger, every lost moment, every piece of joy has turned into pain and that was his deliberate choice. My family has been crushed by this, and I do think when we do these stories, when families do speak out, and some people choose not to they want to remain private. But I do think it's so important as we're telling these stories to remember the victims and remember the lasting, forever pain that their families live with with the loss of someone like this, this mother and this soon to be grandmother who was taken because of a violent obsessive boyfriend.
00:08:19
Speaker 1: This violent obsessive boyfriend will get a chance to have final words on Thursday. But he has said other words recently to the parole Board which could give us an indication of the direction he might go. Stay here, you'll want to hear what he said to the parole board. Also mentioned at the top, the Rocky Roade ice cream and the doughnuts will tell you what the rest of his very simple final meal request was, stay.
00:08:48
Speaker 3: Here, Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. And yes, we want to go with the final meal first and then get into what happened at the parole board meeting, because the parole board meeting story is actually it's shocking, but maybe in a good way, because look, every family wants closure. You never get full closure when there's a piece of you missing, when there's a part of your family that's forever been taken away from you by someone. But final words or admissions of guilt or apologies do mean something. They do matter. You mentioned the final meal. It's always interesting. Again, I never understand how you have an appetite.
00:09:41
Speaker 1: We have a kind of a fascination and this is just a part of these stories now and I don't know, it's just tradition at this point. They don't they're not entitled to any of it. But it is something that's extended, and it's always curious to hear if any of us, if you were told this is the last time you were going to eat on.
00:09:56
Speaker 2: Earth, what would you order? Right? That's just it kind of speaks to all of us.
00:10:00
Speaker 3: I really don't think I'd be able to eat anything. That's just my personal opinion.
00:10:04
Speaker 1: I haven't We've covered several of the guys, don't. There is no last meal. I don't have an appetite.
00:10:09
Speaker 3: Because you Yeah, that makes sense. Anytime I'm nervous, upset, sad, mad, I don't get hungry. I am the opposite. But Carlos Questa Rodriguez seems to have an appetite. He has asked for a Cuban sandwich, as you pointed out, a Rocky Road ice cream, doughnuts, and a bottle of water.
00:10:27
Speaker 2: Keep it simple.
00:10:28
Speaker 3: He did keep it. It is an odd amalgamation of food and desserts. But I guess this is the last bit of grace that's extended to him before the state takes his life.
00:10:40
Speaker 2: You like what you like it is.
00:10:42
Speaker 1: It's interesting he did get a chance to go before the parole board recently. They did ultimately vote three to one against granting him any kind of clemency. But Rob, it's worth noting the tone he took. Even though he did have lawyers who have been arguing for him and to save his life, he's taken attack of at least robes showing remorse.
00:11:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, it doesn't bring her back, It doesn't change what happened. But I do believe that it counts for something. And it's true. While his attorneys are trying to save his life, he literally shocked the room. No one was expecting him to say what he said, because he basically told the Board of Parole and Pardons that the last thing he deserved was mercy. His actual quote was, you must believe that I deserve to suffer, and you're right, it's time for me to pay for what I did. And when he said that first sentence, He actually addressed it to his girlfriend's two living daughters. You must believe that I deserve to suffer, and your right.
00:11:52
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you do? Maybe he's at peace. I don't know.
00:11:55
Speaker 1: Maybe he's a peace. What that means to them, i'd be here curious to hear. But now I have been surprised to hear from some families that some final words from these killers did mean something. When you did hear and I'm sorry, so.
00:12:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he added, you said, I do want to tell you that I regret it, and I am truly remorseful from the bottom of my heart.
00:12:15
Speaker 1: That's as in the couple of years we've been covering these closely broke. That is not a more emphatic apology than I've heard of that one.
00:12:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, And he kept it simple. He didn't make excuses. He didn't talk about his traumatic life or how he got to this place in his life while he was living with so much anger. A lot of you understand that a lot of people want to defend their actions, even if they admit them. There's a reason why he didn't go into any of it. He just said, it's time for me to pay for what I did, and I appreciate that, and I don't know how much her family did, but I do believe that counts for something. They still want to see him pay, they still want to see him executed. But I do think that does give you a little piece knowing that he acknowledged it, he admitted it, and he apologized for it and going to.
00:13:13
Speaker 2: Pay for it.
00:13:16
Speaker 1: Folks who appreciate you listening, just wanted to give you previews. You can see the previews as we profile the other two in the episodes that are adjacent to this one here in our feed. But yes, tomorrow, August thirteenth, an extraordinary day with three executions planned. We appreciate you as always spending a little sign with us on TJ on behalf of my dear Amy Robot.
00:13:37
Speaker 2: We'll talk soon
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Wednesday, August twelfth.
00:00:05
Speaker 2: And Rocky Road ice cream and donuts.
00:00:09
Speaker 1: That was a part of the final meal for a death row inmates scheduled to die tomorrow. Rocky Road ice cream and donuts for a guy who is on death row for killing a woman by shooting her in both of her eyes. Welcome everybody to this episode of Amy and TJ. We are previewing the executions robe and what is a pretty extraordinary day in the US three executions on the same day. We saw Florida have two on the same day itself here recently, but this is this is a bit much.
00:00:43
Speaker 2: We don't see this a lot.
00:00:44
Speaker 3: No, it hasn't happened since twenty ten, so more than a decade since the United States has seen three inmates executed in three different states. And it just so happens, yes to fall on Thursday, August thirteenth. And this is another inmate who has spent decades on death row. His crime was in two thousand and three. So Carlos Questo Rodriguez Questa Rodriguez is seventy years old now, but he was forty seven at the time when he murdered his girlfriend. But this is one of those stories where we always say this, and unfortunately it's often true. The most dangerous time for a woman is the day or the time when she decides to leave an abusive relationship.
00:01:36
Speaker 2: This is this exact story that.
00:01:37
Speaker 3: Is exactly the story here. Yes, this is incredibly, incredibly tragic, as they all are as we go over what these men have been convicted of doing. But seventy year old Carlos Questa Rodriguez back in two thousand and three, Yeah, his girlfriend was done. She had had enough. He had strangled her, he had threatened her. He installed a mirror in their bedrooms who he could watch her. He was accusing her of flirting with or cheating on him with a coworker. He was a possessive, controlling, abusive boyfriend. And she finally finally said I'm leaving.
00:02:18
Speaker 1: So, as the story goes here, she made this decision Robes to leave and she packed up, so she was serious about it, and her pregnant daughter was staying with them all at the time. So the way the story goes is, they packed up to leave, but they didn't leave.
00:02:42
Speaker 2: They didn't leave that night.
00:02:44
Speaker 1: Because they thought Robes they would be in relative safety given that Carlos quest of Rodriguez drank a bala tequila. Dah, he's passed out, it's gonna be drunk. We can go ahead and sleep here for the night, get up, won't be bothered. And that's not what happened.
00:03:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, they thought they'd have a better fresher start in the morning, better to get a good night's sleep first. But what happened, unfortunately, is Carlos woke up around four thirty in the morning and confronted her, and initially he shot her in the right eye and she survived, but as police came to the home, he finished the job by shooting her in her left eye as well, and that ultimately ended her life.
00:03:35
Speaker 1: And the victim here was talking about is forty year old Olympic Fishers her name, and she was, yes, the girlfriend or soon to be ex girlfriend. He woke up, yes, at four thirty in the morning and confronted her. But Robes what they describe and what ensued is really an incredible violent struggle between three people right including the eighteen year old who was pregnant in there, trying to fight him off, trying to get this situation under control, trying to save her mother, and yes, after he had shot her in the eye. This took time the police got there, but this is all within a ten minute period. Eight minutes they got there and she was still alive after being shot in the eye. Police were trying to breach the door. That's when they heard another gunshot. He shot her. Why did that? I don't know, Robes, what since that makes him? Why but to shoot her in both of her eyes, to think she survived one of them, which was catastrophic enough, but shot her in both eyes and killed this woman. This is the guy now who is on.
00:04:45
Speaker 2: Death row.
00:04:46
Speaker 1: And even though Robes he has you know, his lawyers have done their job, and then he still have some stuff pending. This is the guy, and we'll explain here in a second. Doesn't seem like he's necessarily fighting too hard to delay this any further. And it sounds like, I don't know if it's sincere or not he has some remorse. We'll get into his quote in a second. But Robes the viciousness of this crime again, there's some what do they call them? Sometimes circumstances they're mitigating circumstances, right, Some of these things aggravating aggravatances, mitigating aggravating, not mitigating. These are aggravating robes. There are some viciousness of some of these crimes that we've been covering that just.
00:05:36
Speaker 2: We get it.
00:05:37
Speaker 3: It's it's so sad because there was an eyewitness to this all and that was her eighteen year old pregnant daughter, who, by the way, is still speaking out today and has been waiting for this day when her mother's killer will finally pay the ultimate price. But to think that her mom was sleeping in an extra bedroom, the daughter hears the fight, tries to bring her into her own bedroom to help to break up the fight. But look, she was able to call for help, and you'd think, Okay, I've got police on the way. To think that police were knocking or breaking down the door trying to get in, and look, she even used a baseball bat to hit him to try and protect her mom before she ran for help. And just to think that she was so close to saving her and the officers were so close to getting to her kicking the front door and like trying to get in through the windows, but there were metal burglar bars in front of the windows that the police couldn't get in that way. And as they're trying to get in as this situation is heating up, they hear the final gunshot, and I just cannot even imagine the trauma that that young woman at the time eighteen years old, pregnant, This woman was about to become a grandmother, and to think that all of that was lost in that moment and she was so close to saving her mother. I just did to be there where it happened, when it happened, to witness it happening. That is just an overwhelming amount of grief that would never leave you.
00:07:15
Speaker 1: Oh this is They describe such a violent scene in that room of struggle, and to think, gro you survive getting shot in the eye and help is on the other side of the door.
00:07:28
Speaker 3: So close, almost there, and look to hear her daughter describe him, and she's given plenty of interviews, but she said he was an extremely over obsessive, selfish, calculated person. Every trigger, every lost moment, every piece of joy has turned into pain and that was his deliberate choice. My family has been crushed by this, and I do think when we do these stories, when families do speak out, and some people choose not to they want to remain private. But I do think it's so important as we're telling these stories to remember the victims and remember the lasting, forever pain that their families live with with the loss of someone like this, this mother and this soon to be grandmother who was taken because of a violent obsessive boyfriend.
00:08:19
Speaker 1: This violent obsessive boyfriend will get a chance to have final words on Thursday. But he has said other words recently to the parole Board which could give us an indication of the direction he might go. Stay here, you'll want to hear what he said to the parole board. Also mentioned at the top, the Rocky Roade ice cream and the doughnuts will tell you what the rest of his very simple final meal request was, stay.
00:08:48
Speaker 3: Here, Welcome back everyone to Amy and TJ. And yes, we want to go with the final meal first and then get into what happened at the parole board meeting, because the parole board meeting story is actually it's shocking, but maybe in a good way, because look, every family wants closure. You never get full closure when there's a piece of you missing, when there's a part of your family that's forever been taken away from you by someone. But final words or admissions of guilt or apologies do mean something. They do matter. You mentioned the final meal. It's always interesting. Again, I never understand how you have an appetite.
00:09:41
Speaker 1: We have a kind of a fascination and this is just a part of these stories now and I don't know, it's just tradition at this point. They don't they're not entitled to any of it. But it is something that's extended, and it's always curious to hear if any of us, if you were told this is the last time you were going to eat on.
00:09:56
Speaker 2: Earth, what would you order? Right? That's just it kind of speaks to all of us.
00:10:00
Speaker 3: I really don't think I'd be able to eat anything. That's just my personal opinion.
00:10:04
Speaker 1: I haven't We've covered several of the guys, don't. There is no last meal. I don't have an appetite.
00:10:09
Speaker 3: Because you Yeah, that makes sense. Anytime I'm nervous, upset, sad, mad, I don't get hungry. I am the opposite. But Carlos Questa Rodriguez seems to have an appetite. He has asked for a Cuban sandwich, as you pointed out, a Rocky Road ice cream, doughnuts, and a bottle of water.
00:10:27
Speaker 2: Keep it simple.
00:10:28
Speaker 3: He did keep it. It is an odd amalgamation of food and desserts. But I guess this is the last bit of grace that's extended to him before the state takes his life.
00:10:40
Speaker 2: You like what you like it is.
00:10:42
Speaker 1: It's interesting he did get a chance to go before the parole board recently. They did ultimately vote three to one against granting him any kind of clemency. But Rob, it's worth noting the tone he took. Even though he did have lawyers who have been arguing for him and to save his life, he's taken attack of at least robes showing remorse.
00:11:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, and look, it doesn't bring her back, It doesn't change what happened. But I do believe that it counts for something. And it's true. While his attorneys are trying to save his life, he literally shocked the room. No one was expecting him to say what he said, because he basically told the Board of Parole and Pardons that the last thing he deserved was mercy. His actual quote was, you must believe that I deserve to suffer, and you're right, it's time for me to pay for what I did. And when he said that first sentence, He actually addressed it to his girlfriend's two living daughters. You must believe that I deserve to suffer, and your right.
00:11:52
Speaker 2: I mean, what do you do? Maybe he's at peace. I don't know.
00:11:55
Speaker 1: Maybe he's a peace. What that means to them, i'd be here curious to hear. But now I have been surprised to hear from some families that some final words from these killers did mean something. When you did hear and I'm sorry, so.
00:12:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, and he added, you said, I do want to tell you that I regret it, and I am truly remorseful from the bottom of my heart.
00:12:15
Speaker 1: That's as in the couple of years we've been covering these closely broke. That is not a more emphatic apology than I've heard of that one.
00:12:25
Speaker 3: Yeah, And he kept it simple. He didn't make excuses. He didn't talk about his traumatic life or how he got to this place in his life while he was living with so much anger. A lot of you understand that a lot of people want to defend their actions, even if they admit them. There's a reason why he didn't go into any of it. He just said, it's time for me to pay for what I did, and I appreciate that, and I don't know how much her family did, but I do believe that counts for something. They still want to see him pay, they still want to see him executed. But I do think that does give you a little piece knowing that he acknowledged it, he admitted it, and he apologized for it and going to.
00:13:13
Speaker 2: Pay for it.
00:13:16
Speaker 1: Folks who appreciate you listening, just wanted to give you previews. You can see the previews as we profile the other two in the episodes that are adjacent to this one here in our feed. But yes, tomorrow, August thirteenth, an extraordinary day with three executions planned. We appreciate you as always spending a little sign with us on TJ on behalf of my dear Amy Robot.
00:13:37
Speaker 2: We'll talk soon