Elimination of Death Penalty in Nebraska Allows a Mexican's Sentence to Be Commuted JMR - The News
go to original June 2, 2015

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The abolition of the death penalty in Nebraska allowed Mexican Jorge Galindo Espriella sentence to be commuted. Galindo was sentenced to die by lethal injection 11 years ago after a bank robbery in which five people died.

Galindo, 34, a native of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, was one of 10 prisoners sentenced to death in the Correctional Institution Tecumseh, Nebraska, whose sentences have now been commuted to life imprisonment without parole.

Another inmate who was also sentenced to death died of natural causes over the weekend.

...The stay of execution for Galindo reduces to 59 the number of Mexicans who are currently sentenced to death in the United States, most of them in California and Texas.

According to the Information Center on Death Penalty, at least nine Mexicans who have been sentenced to death in the United States have received, for various reasons, the commutation of his sentence.

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