Víctor Saldaño

Víctor Hugo Saldaño (born October 22, 1972 ), aka Victor Rodriguez, is an Argentine man sentenced to death by the state of Texas. He is the sole Argentine sentenced to death in the United States.

Saldaño, from Córdoba, arrived to the United States in 1995, He lived in New York City and later Dallas, where he was the roommate of a Mexican named Jorge Chávez. Saldaño received a death sentence while Chavez was sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Argentine government hired lawyers to overturn the sentencing on the grounds of Quijano's testimony. Southwestern Law School constitutional law professor Jonathan Miller stated "He is alive today because of the Argentine government." In 2008, he "presents eight allegations in which he challenges the validity of his death sentence." This claim was also reviewed by the Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, which partially concurred with only one of Saldaño's eight allegations, and thus upheld the death sentence.

In 2013 Lidia Guerrero, Saldaño's mother, mailed Pope Francis a letter asking him to help her son avoid execution.

Legacy Filmmaker Raúl Villaruel made the documentary Saldaño, el sueño dorado (Saldaño, The Golden Dream), about the case.