04 November 2018 :

A Dallas County jury condemned Kristopher Love in a murder-for-hire plot. Love was convicted last week of capital murder in the September 2015 slaying of Kendra Hatcher, 35, who was found fatally shot in the head on Sept. 2, 2015 in the garage of her apartment complex. The scheme allegedly had been set in motion by the jealous ex of the victim's boyfriend. Love, 34, Black, was paid in cash and drugs for his part in the meticulously plotted crime that was meant to look like a botched robbery. Defense attorney Paul Johnson questioned the fairness of Love's sentence when the others involved in the murder-for-hire plot won't receive capital punishment. Johnson argued that Love was the "instrument" for 36-year-old Brenda Delgado, who was said to be jealous of Hatcher's relationship with Delgado's ex-boyfriend, Ricardo Paniagua. Delgado's capital murder trial has not been scheduled. She can't face the death penalty because of an extradition agreement with Mexico, where she fled after Hatcher's killing.