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Planned execution in Texas draws high-profile protests
LA Times ^ | 22 Jan 2014 | Molly Hennessy-Fiske

Posted on 01/22/2014 6:59:09 AM PST by mandaladon

HOUSTON — Secretary of State John F. Kerry and a former Texas governor are part of an international coalition trying to halt Texas' execution of a Mexican citizen this week. Edgar Tamayo Arias, 46, is to be put to death Wednesday for fatally shooting Houston Police Officer Guy Gaddis in 1994. Gaddis, 24, had been flagged down near a nightclub by a man who accused Tamayo of robbing him. The officer arrested Tamayo, handcuffed him and put him in the back seat of his patrol car. He was driving away when Tamayo drew a concealed pistol and shot Gaddis three times in the back of the head. On Tuesday, a federal judge in Austin rejected Tamayo's request for an order that would have prevented Gov. Rick Perry and the parole board from considering his clemency petition until the fairness of the state's clemency process could be reviewed. The judge found that the clemency process satisfied constitutional requirements and did not violate Tamayo's right to due process of law. Tamayo's attorneys vowed to keep fighting. "The Texas clemency process is the weakest in the nation, in the state that executes the most. Allowing Mr. Tamayo's fate to be decided by a board that has refused to provide meaningful consideration of evidence that Mr. Tamayo has mental retardation and that his trial was fundamentally unfair as a result of the violation of his consular rights is an affront to what clemency is supposed to be," the attorneys said in a statement. They have petitioned Perry to grant a 30-day reprieve and the parole board to commute Tamayo's death sentence to life in prison. Tamayo, a laborer from Morelos state, Mexico, was in the U.S. illegally at the time of his arrest.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: copkiller; deathpenalty; deathrow; execution; illegalimmigration; johnkerry; kerry; texas
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To: mandaladon

Maybe this will help with our illegal immigration problem. Come to Texas, commit the ultimate crime and pay the ultimate price. Unlike Mexico, our police and judges will not accept a bribe to let you free.


41 posted on 01/22/2014 8:56:56 AM PST by mandaladon (The truth about Benghazi is all I want)
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To: mandaladon

Wack the cop killer. 20 years late.


42 posted on 01/22/2014 9:00:18 AM PST by TheDon (Inside Every Liberal is a Totalitarian Screaming to Get Out.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
>>Death Penalty is on it’s way out the door IMO. This issue of pharma companies refusing to sell execution drugs to the states is going to eventually kill it.

Horsefeathers!

Dirt cheap and kills 'em stone cold dead. Quickly. Painlessly. No MDs, no "pharma companies", no nonsense.

43 posted on 01/22/2014 9:01:57 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: red-dawg

You’re preaching to the choir.


44 posted on 01/22/2014 10:10:54 AM PST by chesley
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To: mandaladon

I live about 25 miles from where the execution will be, and I have heard that tons of bikers will be there to rev up their bikes to keep protesters chants from being heard :)


45 posted on 01/22/2014 10:25:05 AM PST by txgirl4Bush (Impeach obama)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

One in the head, two in the chest works just as well.


46 posted on 01/22/2014 11:01:23 AM PST by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I’m sure Sierra or Hornady can sell the materials needed for execution by lethal injection.


47 posted on 01/22/2014 1:13:03 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: LibLieSlayer

“If you kill someone in Texas, we will kill you back."

48 posted on 01/22/2014 1:21:31 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I love that guy!!!!!!!!


49 posted on 01/22/2014 2:54:50 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: mandaladon

TEMPORARY DELAY

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/state/headlines/20140122-court-won-t-stop-texas-execution-of-mexican-national.ece


50 posted on 01/22/2014 4:57:29 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: mandaladon

Supreme Court denies Stay —

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-execution-texas-delay-20140122,0,4841723.story


51 posted on 01/22/2014 7:46:13 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: mandaladon

The execution of a Mexican national was put on hold Wednesday as the U.S. Supreme Court considered appeals to keep 46-year-old Edgar Tamayo from the Texas death chamber.


52 posted on 01/22/2014 7:47:38 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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53 posted on 01/22/2014 9:34:36 PM PST by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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