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Mexico and the Death Penalty in America

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AP has a dispatch, "Fleeing to Mexico Thwarts Death Penalty."  It's reported by Michelle Roberts with contributions from other AP staffers.  A methamphetamine dealer who gunned down a deputy during a traffic stop in Southern California. A man in Arizona who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents and brother and snatched his children. A man who suffocated his baby daughter and left her body in a toolbag on an expressway overpass near Chicago. Ordinarily, these would be death penalty cases. But these men fled to Mexico, thereby escaping the possibility of execution. The reason: Mexico refuses to send anyone back to the United States unless the U.S. gives assurances it won't seek the death penalty ? a 30-year-old policy that rankles some American prosecutors and enrages victims' families...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 18, 2008 (boomark / email).