Mexican Goverment Demands Life for Mexico Citizen on Death Row in US Oscar Lopez - Latin Times
go to original January 11, 2014

Mexico's new ambassador to the United States Eduardo Medina Mora attends a news conference at the foreign ministry in Mexico City January 10, 2013. (Reuters)

Edgar Tamayo Arias, a Mexican citizen currently on Death Row in the United States, is scheduled for execution on January 22nd. However, the Mexican government is demanding that US Authorities stay Mr. Tamayo's execution. Mexican ambassador Eduardo Medina Mora today revealed that the Mexican government has done "everything within its reach" to prevent the execution of Mr. Tamayo and has urged the US to comply with a resolution passed by the International Court of Justice in the Hague.

Edgar Tamayo Arias was arrested the 31st of January 1994 for the murder of a police officer in Houston - he is scheduled for execution in Texas. However, in 2004, the ICJ found that the United States had violated article 36 of the Vienna convention in 51 cases of Mexican citizens being given the death penalty because it did not grant them the right to consular assistance.

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