Cop Killer in Texas, Edgar Tamayo, Given a Heroes Burial in Mexico Brandon Jones - The Global Dispatch
go to original February 5, 2014

Friends and relatives carried the coffin of Mexican Edgar Tamayo to the cemetery in his home town of Miacatlan, Morelos state, amid an outpouring of grief from local residents. (Reuters)

The man who murdered police officer Guy Gaddis twenty years ago was finally put to death in Texas by lethal injection.

Back in Mexico, at the man’s burial, thousands turned out to mourn Edgar Tamayo as a hero.

Tamayo, age 46, was found guilty two decades ago. Human rights groups protested the execution, stirring tensions between the two countries which prompted a statement by Secretary of State John Kerry.

Kerry repeatedly urged the Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott to delay Tamayo’s punishment, saying it “could impact the way American citizens are treated in other countries.”

The Mexican government also sharply criticized the decision, saying failure to review Tamayo’s case and reconsider his sentence would be ‘a clear violation by the United States of its international obligations.

Hundreds lined the streets with candles as Tamayo’s coffin was carried to the burial site.

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