MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexicans struggling with increasingly gruesome crimes at home devoted the least attention in recent memory to the execution of one of their citizens in Texas.
With Mexico riveted on its own kidnap and killing of a 14-year-old boy, the normally anti-death penalty country expressed far less outrage at the death on Tuesday of Jose Medellin, a Mexican national convicted in the 1993 rape and murder of two Texas girls.
Some Mexicans on Wednesday even called for the death penalty at home.
“There is no reason for outrage. The man was a rapist,” said lawyer Gustavo Sanchez, 40, as he got his shoes shined on a Mexico City street. “If we had the death penalty here, there wouldn’t be so many crimes.”
His sentiments echoed Emilio Gamboa, the congressional leader of Mexico’s former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, who called for capital punishment earlier this week.
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Crime-weary Mexico barely focuses on US execution
It’s utterly amazing how a few years of *out of control* violence and murder can change the overall thinking of a nation, even one as backwards and corrupt as Mexico.
Many nations will not use, or even consider the death penalty, they feel it is too harsh, too barbaric, and makes those that administer the death penalty as primitive as the criminal that committed the acts that brought the death penalty upon them.
There has got to be *some* deterrent, some penalty that will make the violent criminal think before he acts, something that will make him consider the consequences to himself.
I also know that many criminal psychologist’s say that the death penalty does nothing to slow these killers down, and use the large number of inmates on *death row* as their citation for that belief. Those learned individuals may be correct, or, maybe the criminals would be even more brazen in their murderous rampages if there wasn’t a death penalty in place in some states and countries of the world.
Personally, I am a strong supporter of the death penalty when applied in cases of Capitol crimes or to those that have committed particularly heinous crimes, ie: child rape and molestation. I know some of you will disagree, and to you that do, I hope you never have to see, 1st hand, what a murdered victim, especially a child, looks like up close and personal.
On 2nd thought, maybe you DO need to see what those victims look like.
Oh yeah more folks need to look at the results of a non-secure border…
Violent crime goes up and with our libtards in leadership there is no punishment to fit the crime. What we need is to hang these numbnuts in a town square and have the families take care of the punishment.
Our nation is sinking like NOLA IMO.
See California’s education rating, see crime statistics in the area broke down by ethnic group, see prison break down and then trace all HISPANIC prisoners lineage to the first migrant in their family, if it was a legal immigrant throw them in one pile, if it was an illegal immigrant put it in a separate pile and you will need MORE room.
I personally think invading a nation, is akin an act of war and should be prosecuted as such… but that’s just a hate speech I guess.
I have a large supply of “capital punishment preclusion”.
It comes in the form of jacketed lead, and is known to be delivered in heavy doses anywhere from 800 fps to 2200 fps.
Who needs capital punishment as a deterrent when I have a safe full of convincing argument?
Seems to me if we used the death penalty more, there would be fewer of the scum still breathing. That sure seems like a deterrent to me. SOB won’t do it again, will he/she?
The decent working people of Mexico were probably glad to see this piece of garbage executed. They’re probably revealed that he won’t be coming back to Mexico