Mexicans to protest execution of rapist & murderer because he’s Mexican?
Somebody please explain to me why anybody would be protesting in favor of the animal who brutalized, gang-raped, and murdered two teenage girls? And why America should care about the feelings of those who would side with such a barbaric killer?
MEXICO CITY – The U.S. embassy in Mexico is warning Americans of possible protests next week when a Mexican man is scheduled to be executed in Texas.In a public statement the embassy says it has received information that protests may occur next Tuesday, when Jose Medellin is scheduled to die. It urged Americans to avoid the protests.
The embassy says activists in Mexico could use the demonstrations “to incite anti-U.S. sentiment in general.”
The Friday statement noted that even peaceful demonstrations “can turn confrontational and possibly escalate into violence.”
Medellin has been sentenced to die for his participation in the 1993 gang rape and beating deaths of two Houston girls aged 14 and 16.
It’s going to incite anti-American sentiment to execute an illegal immigrant who lived here since he was six years old, only to savagely rape and murder two of our children? What does this say for Mexico? Why do some people insist on siding with race over behavior?
The details of this horrific crime made me sick to my stomach. Even the investigating officers said this was the most brutal gang rape they’ve ever encountered. The medical examiner in this case testified that Jennifer Ertman’s (14) two front teeth were knocked out before she died and that two of Elizabeth Pena’s (16) ribs were broken after she had died. The girls’ bodies were kicked repeatedly and their necks were stomped after being strangled with belts and shoelaces in order to “make sure that they were really dead.”
After the U.N.’s world court questioned the Texas court for supposedly violating the Vienna Convention (Houston police didn’t allow Medellin to contact the Mexican consulate because he didn’t identify himself as a Mexican national), Medellin was given an appeal. And it was thoroughly examined before being rejected on merit.
Judge Cathy Cochran, in concurring with the appeals court’s majority opinion, wrote that there is “no likelihood at all” that the inadvertent violation of the Vienna Convention harmed Medellin’s defense.“This was a truly despicable crime committed by … deadly brutal young men who were deadly dangerous to anyone who might find themselves near them. All five were sentenced to death by separate juries after hearing all of the evidence in each of their individual trials.
“No matter how long the courts of this state, this nation or any other nation review, re-review and re-review once again the disgusting facts of this crime and these perpetrators, the result should be the same: These juries reached a reasonable verdict, beyond a reasonable doubt, that a sentence of death was the only appropriate punishment under Texas law.”
The scumbags in question were given a fair hearing and multiple appeals. Certainly far more than what an American would get in a Mexican court. The facts of the case are not in question. The Mexican government is attempting to exploit a technicality to exonerate these monsters. They deserve to die for the atrocities they committed. And I’m glad that Texas will give them what they deserve. I only wish they could get the electric chair instead of the comparative cakewalk of lethal injection.
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
