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MEXICAN RIGHTS GROUP URGES OVERTURN OF DEATH SENTENCES FOR 58 MEXICANS IN U.S. PRISONS 

Seeing their opportunity with the Obama administration, Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission is pressuring its federal government to “intensify actions” to overturn the death sentences of 58 Mexican nationals currently held in U.S. prisons. The group stated, “The commission considers it necessary to intensify actions to avoid the death penalty in cases of Mexicans held in foreign prisons and to safeguard their rights to life, dignity and bodily integrity.”

In July 2011, the Obama administration encouraged the U.S. Supreme Court to halt the execution of a Mexican national in Texas convicted of brutally raping and murdering a 16-year-old girl. Their argument: the sentence “would place the United States in irreparable breach of its international law obligation.” Fortunately, the Supreme Court denied the administration’s request by a 5 to 4 vote.

Citing “official figures”, the National Human Rights Commission of Mexico stated that “from 2000 to 2011, 745 Mexicans have benefited from a reversal of the death penalty in the U.S.

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