Mexican man executed in Texas for killing a police officer is given a hero's

Daily Mail ^ | 3 February 2014 | ALEX DELMAR-MORGAN

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Thousands of mourners poured out to see the burial of the Mexican man put to death by lethal injection in Texas last month, a move that has sparked diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and the central American state.

Friends and relatives carried the coffin of Mexican Edgar Tamayo to the cemetery in his home town of Miacatlan, Morelos state, amid an outpouring of grief from local residents.

The 46-year-old Mexican was controversially executed in Texas less than two weeks ago for the killing of a Houston police officer in 1994, despite outrage from human rights groups and last minute appeals from his lawyers for clemency on the grounds that Tamayo was mentally disabled.

The case saw the unusual intervention of the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, who had repeatedly urged the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to delay Tamayo's punishment, saying it 'could impact the way American citizens are treated in other countries.'

Abbott and the Harris County district attorney opposed postponing what was the first execution this year in the ultra-conservative American state. Some 16 people were executed in Texas in 2013.

The Mexican government also sharply criticized the decision, saying failure to review Tamayo's case and reconsider his sentence would be 'a clear violation by the United States of its international obligations'.

Tamayo was found guilty of shooting 24-year-old Houston policeman Guy Gaddis 20 years ago.

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The case saw the unusual intervention of the U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, who had repeatedly urged the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to delay Tamayo's punishment, saying it 'could impact the way American citizens are treated in other countries.'...What is Kerry smoking ? In Mexico courts you have to pay bribes to get things done like they should be done.Mexico can recall all her citizens .

[C210N]

it 'could impact the way American citizens are treated in other countries.'

Good, it should impact the way Americans are treated in other countries. I'd hope that an American, acting like a low life, visiting a foreign land, and slaughtering a foreign cop, would by tried and put to death.

[Jane Long]

If Mexican nationals don’t like our laws, they can stay the h#ll out of Texas.

[Snickering Hound]

"Could impact how American citizens are treated in other countries?! Excuse me?!"

[beelzepug]

“...controversially executed in Texas...”

What’s controversial about it? No one seems too worried about the “human rights” of the officer who was murdered. As for F’n Kerry’s worry about how Americans might be treated in other countries, if that’s a concern to anyone, stay the hell out of those countries.

[12th_Monkey]

Hillary did the same for a mexican national illegal in Texas that committed rape and murder....we put him down too despite the liberal whining hand hand wringing....

Like Ron White said “ if you kill in Texas, we kill you back”

[Mr. K]

Did that pansy-ass-wimp actually say that?

"Please don't execute him because we are AFRAID of what Mexico (MEXICO???) might do to us..."

[Jeff Head]

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As a Texan I apologize for the time it took to send this bas!@&d to meet his maker....but justice was eventually served!!!

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and the central American state.
Nope, North America as in NAFTA. But I'm OK with kicking them out.

[Ron H.]

Sounds as if these folk have a persecution complex. Perhaps working to keep racism alive. Never mind their hero is a murdering cop killer. BTW, did the executed cop killer ask to contact his consular office? If not then that was his problem not ours.