[ZULU]

"I do not know why they are hanging these two guys but it is BS IMO."

Bush II + Rove + Mehlman + Gonzales + Mexican political pressure = screwjob on border agents and an example of what happens to border patrol agents who take their jobs too seriously.

[defenderSD]

That's not it. Drug smuggling is not punishable by a death sentence in the US, so an agent cannot shoot somebody at the scene for smuggling drugs. He can only shoot somebody who is an imminent threat to inflict serious or fatal injury to the agent.

The real solution to the drug smuggling problem is for Americans to stop smoking all that stuff and jamming all that white powder up their noses that shortens their lives and gives them heart disease.