Posted on 06/28/2006 10:14:03 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
Mexico City, Jun 28 (EFE).- Authorities here expressed regret Wednesday over the execution of Mexican citizen Angel Maturino Resendiz, the notorious "Railroad Killer," at a prison in Huntsville, Texas.
Resendiz, sentenced to death in 2000 for the rape-murder of a Houston doctor but also believed responsible in a dozen other slayings, was executed Tuesday night by lethal injection "despite medical evidence about the severe mental disturbances he suffered," the Mexican foreign ministry said in a communique.
A Texas court ruled last Wednesday that Resendiz, who asked for forgiveness before being executed and said he deserved his fate, was mentally competent for the application of capital punishment. Both his defense lawyers and Mexican diplomats filed multiple appeals challenging that ruling, but they were rejected.
The Mexican government, in commenting on the execution, noted its own "absolute opposition to the death penalty." Lawmakers here officially abolished capital punishment in June 2005, more than 40 years after the country's last execution. EFE gt/dr
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I've been waiting to see this. Mexico can just take a chill pill. Look at how many people this maniac killed. Oh, I forgot - he recanted in the end and admitted he'd let the devil run his life. He knew he had a choice and was therefore not a loony as he tried to pretend...
And the families of his victims expressed regret that it took so long.
Go to hell Mexico.
Mexico loves their serial killers (who cross the border NUMEROUS times) but doesn't want to keep tabs on their visiting citizens.
I would have been happy to give this guy back to the Mexican government -- so long as he was dropped from 20,000 feet over Mexico City without a parachute!
The Mexican government, in commenting on the execution, noted its own "absolute opposition to the death penalty.""
The Texas government, in commenting on the execution, noted its own "absolute opposition to the brutal murder of its citizens by trash".
Mexico does execute its worst criminals it suicides them.
This distinction gives Mexico the right to look down its nose at us.
Tell ya what Meh-hee-co; send some representatives (legally) and they're welcome to take the carcass back with them.
Or sends them to the US to be "Zanti-misfited".
Dear Mexico,
Keep your psychotic murderers on your side of the Rio Grande and we'll stop executing them.
Sincerely,
Texas
"Go to hell Mexico."
Isn't that some sort of redundant statement?
Read in article recently on ways in which the press has adopted the language of communism without most of us paying attention.
The word "comunique" is straight out of the old Soviet play book. FWIW.
Guess what Mexico? He's cured!
I've followed this case since I was living in San Antonio many years ago.
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Mexico currently has a serial killer or two in Juarez Mexico near El Paso Tx. They kill women from the factories... I'm sure they want him to live, as well. The northern portion of Mexico is without government - this is not an exaggeration.
Actually, they did whine about it a bit this past weekend...
Well said! Hand me that .45, wouldja?
Then Mexico should stop them from crossing the border.
This distinction gives Mexico the right to look UP its nose at us.
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