Cesar Roberto Fierro is a Mexican national who was on death row in Huntsville, Texas, until his sentence was vacated on December 19, 2019, for the 27 February 1979 death of a cab driver in El Paso. He was born on 18 October 1956. He was 23 years old at the time of the shooting. Judge Sharon Keller wrote the majority opinion for the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, calling the circumstances of the coerced confession a "harmless error". In 2003, the International Court of Justice issued a preliminary injunction against the United States, ordering that Fierro not be executed while the Avena case was pending.