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Mexican National Shouts 'Viva Mexico!' as He's Executed in Texas
foxnews.com ^ | 07/08/2011 | n/a

Posted on 07/08/2011 6:40:17 PM PDT by massmike

As the lethal injection began taking effect, the Mexican National convicted of the brutal rape and killing of a teenage girl in 1995 shouted, "Viva Mexico!" just before he died at a Texas prison. Efforts by Humberto Leal's attorneys to halt the execution fell short, with the U.S. Supreme Court turning back a stay request and Texas Gov. Rick Perry refusing to grant a pardon. He was pronounced dead at 6:21 p.m. local time.

In his last minutes, Leal repeatedly said he was sorry and accepted responsibility. "I have hurt a lot of people. ... I take full blame for everything. I am sorry for what I did," he said in the death chamber. "One more thing," he said as the drugs began taking effect. Then he shouted twice, "Viva Mexico!" at a Texas prison.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: humbertoleal; mexico; mexicution; texacution; texas
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To: massmike

What did he shout afterward?


21 posted on 07/08/2011 6:59:32 PM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: massmike

Remember the Alamo!


22 posted on 07/08/2011 6:59:56 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: TomGuy

What they’re ignoring is the court decision.


23 posted on 07/08/2011 7:00:25 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: massmike

Reminds me of the punch line of an old joke:

“So he grabs the Mexican, tosses him out of the plane and yells “ remember the Alamo!”.....


24 posted on 07/08/2011 7:00:32 PM PDT by Kozak ("It's not an Election it's a Restraining Order" .....PJ O'Rourke)
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To: massmike

The guy was 2 years old when he was brought across the border.

He has no real ties to Mexico.


25 posted on 07/08/2011 7:00:57 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Herman Cain 2012)
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To: massmike

Three explorers were captured by cannibals. The chief said we will kill you all, skin you, and use your skins to make a new canoe. Three skins are just enough for a nice one. But since you are nice people, we will let you choose your own death.

The Frenchman asks for his dagger, shouts, “Viva la France!”, and slits his throat.

The Mexican asks for his pistola and shouts, “Viva Mexico!” and shoots himself in the head.

The American asks for a fork. Chief says a fork? Yes. He gets a fork, screams, “There goes your #&%(@*# canoe!” and stabs himself repeatedly all over his body.


26 posted on 07/08/2011 7:03:17 PM PDT by eartrumpet
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To: Poison Pill
What did he shout afterward?

"Hey, is it hot down here, or is it just me?"

27 posted on 07/08/2011 7:03:23 PM PDT by FoxInSocks (B. Hussein Obama: Central Planning Czar)
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To: massmike

Take his body down to Brownsville, say a Christian prayer over it, load it into a Trebuchet, pin a sign on it saying, “Viva Mexico” and launch his lifeless ass back across the Rio Grande!


28 posted on 07/08/2011 7:08:43 PM PDT by wxgesr (I want to be the first person to surf on another planet.)
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To: massmike

Good riddance!

Our courts could benefit from the eloquence of the Honorable Judge Roy Bean and the way he dispensed nineteenth century justice.

http://www.memphis.edu/sociology/pdfs/MAC-death_sentence.pdf


29 posted on 07/08/2011 7:09:49 PM PDT by Mobties (Reduce the government footprint! Let the markets work!)
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To: massmike
I thought I read that he was two years old when his Family brought him to the US. If so, he had no memory of living in Mexico.

The whole “Mexican National” thing coming from the Libtards is ridiculous. They call him that and cannot admit that Illegal Aliens are not Undocumented Immigrants.

30 posted on 07/08/2011 7:13:15 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now.)
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To: wxgesr
That idea just begs “Pay Per View” with the proceeds going to the Murdered girls family.
31 posted on 07/08/2011 7:15:15 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Sarah Palin was President, you would have a job by now.)
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To: massmike
Viva Mexico!

Strange thought at that moment. I don't think that Mexico is where he went. He will have to answer to a judge more powerful than any in Texas about the 16 year old girl he brutally murdered. He is not going to like where he is now.

Ir directamente al infierno, Humberto.

32 posted on 07/08/2011 7:15:29 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: massmike

If he *loved* Mexico so much he should have stayed there. We didn’t want him, and certainly didn’t need him. His illegal butt has been in our prison paid for by our tax dollars. If you ask me, and no one ever does, Mexico needs to be billed for his maintenance and death. So, just how much money does it cost the taxpayers to house, feed, give medical treatment and finally give the lethal injection to the average death row inmate??


33 posted on 07/08/2011 7:23:18 PM PDT by Peanut Gallery
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To: Venturer

Adios MOFO!


34 posted on 07/08/2011 7:25:50 PM PDT by LA Woman3
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Or maybe he said..."Viva Mexicans".

Oh the irony.

35 posted on 07/08/2011 7:38:01 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: Peanut Gallery
If you ask me, and no one ever does

Well, welcome to my life!

36 posted on 07/08/2011 7:51:14 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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To: massmike

And I say, “Adios Mutha.”


37 posted on 07/08/2011 7:53:00 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: massmike

And if the perp had been an anglo, British citizen; would Zero had cared if the embassy had been notified?


38 posted on 07/08/2011 8:28:48 PM PDT by joelt
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To: massmike

he has been in the country since he was 2 - he may not be a citizen, but to talk like he was anything other than a criminal is a joke. He is a murderer in the county he was born and in the country where he lived for ove 20 years when he killed his victim.


39 posted on 07/08/2011 8:36:19 PM PDT by q_an_a (a)
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To: massmike

Like most of his country men, they are Mexicans first and Americans only when there is something to be gained. Witness the soccer game in LA last week.


40 posted on 07/08/2011 8:41:56 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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