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Texas to execute Mexican citizen despite US concerns
BBC ^ | 22 January 2014

Posted on 01/22/2014 2:43:43 PM PST by artichokegrower

The US state of Texas plans to execute a Mexican national convicted of murder, over the objections of the US and Mexican governments.

Mexico says Wednesday's execution of Edgar Tamayo, 46, will violate international law.

The country says he was not told of his right to seek legal assistance from the Mexican consulate when he was arrested.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: criminalaliens; deathrow; edgartamayo; execution; mexico; texas
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In January 1994, Tamayo shot and killed police officer Guy Gaddis, 24, as he was being arrested for robbery. He was in the US illegally.


Adios Edgar

1 posted on 01/22/2014 2:43:43 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Our country, our laws, live with it


2 posted on 01/22/2014 2:44:54 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: artichokegrower

If you go to Mexico as a tourist, you’re an idiot.


3 posted on 01/22/2014 2:45:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: artichokegrower

The sad thing is that the taxpayer has taken the check for this criminal for the past 20 years.


4 posted on 01/22/2014 2:45:27 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: artichokegrower

This game has been played before. Texas will follow through, again.

Mexican national executed in Texas
http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/07/07/texas.mexican.execution/
July 7, 2011


5 posted on 01/22/2014 2:46:04 PM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: artichokegrower
Let's say you're in Texas.

You break the laws of Texas in Texas.

I would say that you have to live by the rules in Texas, regardless of what a foreign nation or the federal government thinks or wishes.

6 posted on 01/22/2014 2:48:10 PM PST by elkfersupper
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To: artichokegrower

As a Texan I have to say,

my only regret is that we retired ‘ol sparky.

All that quiet laying on a comfortable bed just going to sleep don’t seem like justice to me.


7 posted on 01/22/2014 2:49:12 PM PST by I cannot think of a name
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To: GeronL

Same goes to the fed, States laws - live with it.


8 posted on 01/22/2014 2:49:54 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: artichokegrower

Mexico needs to build a border fence to protect their people from these evil racist rednecks in Texas.

And in New Mexico, Arizona, and California

A nice tall one will keep those white devils away!


9 posted on 01/22/2014 2:49:59 PM PST by VanDeKoik
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To: I cannot think of a name

There will be plenty of pain in Hades if the killer hasn’t repented.


10 posted on 01/22/2014 2:50:32 PM PST by CorporateStepsister (I am NOT going to force a man to make my dreams come true)
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To: elkfersupper

I guess one could always NOT GOT TO TEXAS if he didn’t like Texas laws. Texas didn’t make this guy come there and murder a cop did they?!?


11 posted on 01/22/2014 2:52:08 PM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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[Former President George W Bush ordered Texas and other states to review the cases, but the US Supreme Court ruled in favour of the state in 2008, saying the president could not effectively enforce The Hague's ruling, leaving it to Congress to pass legislation.]

Texas took this issue to the Supreme Court and won.

“Shoot the juice to me Bruce.”

12 posted on 01/22/2014 2:52:44 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: I cannot think of a name; All

Firing squad is a cheap method...

I bet you’d have no shortage of volunteers for that chore...


13 posted on 01/22/2014 2:53:18 PM PST by stevie_d_64 (It's not the color of one's skin that offends people...it's how thin it is.)
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To: I cannot think of a name

They might bring back the firing squad if the new drugs for used for the death penalty do work out quite right.


14 posted on 01/22/2014 2:53:43 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: artichokegrower

Will Mexico pay his incarceration bills. If not, they should shut up, and be ashamed for letting this criminal come here. Hang him, and save the rope for the next one.


15 posted on 01/22/2014 2:53:43 PM PST by pallis
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Get arrested in Mexico? You spend months, even years inside one of their notorious prisons. The only way you're getting out if you got a rich relative who will front bribe money. And that's if one of the esses don't beat the crap out of you first.
16 posted on 01/22/2014 2:55:31 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (15 years of FReeping! Congratulations EEE!!)
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To: thackney
This game has been played before. Texas will follow through, again.

Yes, sir. Texans have a real problem with a murderer who executes a cop. As the Seinfeld "Soup Nazi" once said, "Adios, muchacho!"

17 posted on 01/22/2014 2:55:38 PM PST by glennaro
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To: artichokegrower

In other words, there is no doubt about his guilt, just some squishy liberals who think the innocent should die and the guilty should be spared.


18 posted on 01/22/2014 2:56:29 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Haven't you lost enough freedoms? Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: I cannot think of a name

He is a cop killer. I have lived in Houston for 37 years, Texas 40 and I remember this crime. I am forty five minutes south of Huntsville if I drive fast I can help flip the switch.


19 posted on 01/22/2014 2:59:54 PM PST by WilliamRobert (Obama so loves the poor he created millions more.)
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To: GeronL

No, Kerry is trying to postpone this. It’s a case of “our state, our laws”. And rightly so. This guy murdered a cop, Guy Gaddis, who was only 24.


20 posted on 01/22/2014 3:01:24 PM PST by Viennacon
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