While you have a good point, I would think that a life sentence in a Mexican jail is a worse punishment than execution.
Only if you can't come up with enough
"Mordida" for the guards, AND your steaks, your cable TV, your LazyBoy and regular visits from the local girls.
Then time ain't so bad in Ol' Me-heco.
What a country ... soon to be homogenized into the USA, compliments of our Global-visionary leader, George Bush and his good Ivy League buddy, Presidente Coka Cola.