Mexico's Goverment 'Strongly Rejects' Upcoming Execution In Texas Of Mexican Citizen

[Purveyor]

Source: Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — The Mexican government said Sunday it "strongly rejects" the execution scheduled this week in Texas of a Mexican man convicted of killing a police officer.

The Foreign Relations Department said in a statement that executing Edgar Tamayo would be yet another U.S. violation of an international treaty involving such cases.

Tamayo is set for lethal injection Wednesday for the 1994 fatal shooting of a police officer who had arrested him for a robbery.

Mexico has been asking the United Sates to halt Tamayo's execution because the inmate wasn't told he could get legal help from the Mexican government as agreed under the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

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[RC]

1. Texas again?

Didn't they do this a couple of years ago too.

[okaawhatever]

3. Yes. Bush agreed w/the Hague which said that they should receive new trials and that it was a

violation of VCCR. SCOTUS ruled that only Congress could force individual states to comply with the international treaty. Such a measure has never passed. I don't know if the President could stop it other than to grant a pardon.

[treestar]

2. Sounds familiar

this type of case has happened before.

[seattledo]

4. The bigger issue is the violence that is heading south.

There's just so many guns in Texas and with the rate at which they are leaking into Mexico, they're going to have decades of violence because of us.

[NobodyHere]

5. I think Mexico has all the death and violence it can handle right now.

Murder rate per 100,000

U.S.: 4.7
Texas: 4.4

Mexico: 23.7