9 Mexican Nationals Have Been Executed in the United States Since 1976 Timothy McGrath - GlobalPost
go to original January 25, 2014

Eleuteria Armendariz, grandmother of Jose Ernesto Medellin, shows a newspaper cutting with a note and picture of her grandson in Nuevo Laredo. (Raul Llamas/AFP/Getty Images)

Last week, the State of Texas executed Edgar Tamayo for the 1994 murder of a Houston police officer. Tamayo's case is special because he is a Mexican citizen, whose nation challenged his execution, just as it has challenged U.S. executions of its citizens in the past, most recently in 2008 and 2011.

Since the United States reinstated the death penalty in 1976, states have executed 28 other foreign nationals, often in the face of diplomatic calls for clemency.

Tamayo became the 29th on Wednesday after the Supreme Court refused to stay his execution. If Texas officials have their way, Edgardo Cubas, of Honduras, will become the 30th on May 29, 2014.

In all but one of these cases, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, U.S. authorities failed to inform the arrested foreign nationals that they had the right to seek consular assistance under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. In 2004, the International Court of Justice found that the United States had violated the Vienna Convention in dozens of cases involving the arrest and prosecution of Mexican citizens.

More than 140 foreign nationals remain on death row around the United States.

Here are the 8 men who preceded Tamayo, where they were born, and the crimes for which they were put to death.

Humberto Leal — July 7, 2011 in Texas — Rape and murder of Adria Saucedo, 16, in May 1994

Jose Ernesto Medellin — Aug. 5, 2008 in Texas — Rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Peña, 16 in June 1993

Angel Maturino Resendiz — June 27, 2006 in Texas — Serial murderer known as the “Railroad Killer”; 14 victims

Javier Suarez Medina — Aug. 14, 2002 in Texas — Murder of undercover police officer during robbery in December 1998

Miguel Angel Flores — Nov. 9, 2000 in Texas — Kidnapping, rape, and murder in 1989

Mario Murphy — Sept. 18, 1997 in Virginia — Murder-for-hire of a US Navy petty officer in 1991

Irineo Tristan Montoya — June 18, 1997 in Texas — Murder and robbery of Kohn Kilheffer, in 1986

Ramon Montoya Facundo — March 25, 1993 in Texas — Murder of John Pasco, a Dallas police officer in January 1983

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