Father of Mexican Facing Wednesday Execution in Texas Prays for Retrial Julia Symmes Cobb - Reuters
go to original January 21, 2014

MEXICO CITY - The father of Mexican inmate Edgar Tamayo, scheduled for execution in Texas on Wednesday, insists his son is innocent, and that his family is praying for a re-trial after the Mexican government said the sentence violated international law.

Hector Tamayo, who will visit his son on Wednesday, told local radio he has faith God will halt the execution.

Edgar Tamayo, 46, was convicted of killing a Houston police officer in 1994 while he was in the United States illegally.

"It is unjust what they want to do, knowing full well that he is not the guilty one, that he didn't kill the cop," Hector Tamayo said on Tuesday, speaking from Texas. "We have faith in God that the execution will be stopped and there will be a new trial.

"He tells us, his mom and I, that we must be strong, that only God has the last word."

The Mexican government said on Sunday the execution violated a 2004 ruling by the United Nations' International Court of Justice, which has demanded that the death sentences of 51 Mexican inmates, including Tamayo, be re-examined.

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