MEXICAN RIGHTS GROUP URGES OVERTURN OF DEATH SENTENCES FOR 58 MEXICANS IN U.S. PRISONS

In July 2011, the Obama administration encouraged the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution of a Mexican national in Texas convicted of brutally raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl. Their argument: the sentence “would place the United States in irreparable breach of its international law obligation.” Fortunately, the Supreme Court denied the administration’s request by a 5 to 4 vote.
Citing “official figures”, the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico stated that “from 2000 to 2011, 745 Mexicans have benefited from a reversal of the death penalty in the U.S.
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