UN Special Investigator Agnes Callamard condemned the verdict as a “judicial parody”. “These judgments have no legal or moral legitimacy,” Callamard wrote on Twitter. “They came to the conclusion of a process that was neither fair nor transparent.” Callamard further wrote that the “high-ranking officials” who, in her opinion, organized the murder, have been at … Read more
Washington – A report from College of Lawyers of Puerto Rico (CAAPR) points out that at least 20 Puerto Ricans are on death row in the United States, 12 fewer than seven years ago. The majority of cases of Puerto Ricans or descendants of Puerto Ricans who may be subject to the death penalty are … Read more
This Monday Twitter users in hashtag have made trend #death penalty, behind the feminicide from Ingrid Escamilla last Sunday in the mayor’s office Gustavo A. Madero, and especially the confession of his feminicide, widely disseminated in media and networks. Tweeters from all over Mexico have placed the hashtag #penademuerte in fourth position of trending topic, … Read more
This Thursday was executed in Huntsville, Texas, Abel Ochoa Revilla, imprisoned since 2003 and sentenced to the death penalty after a federal court of U.S He will find him guilty of murdering 5 members of his family in Dallas in 2002. A native of Durango, Ochoa Revilla He obtained US citizenship, so he was treated … Read more