Mexicans on Death Row

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Creators & Publishers
Publisher
Arte Publico Press
Metadata
ISBN
9781558855489
Collection
Regular item
Year
2010
Description

Ricardo Ampudia, former Consul General of Mexico in Houston, Texas, explores the history and ethics of the death penalty in this look at its impact on Mexicans sentenced to death in the United States. The author offers a brief introduction about the death penalty, both in the U.S. and around the world. Subsequent chapters focus on the phenomenon of the death penalty in the U.S. and the work done by the Mexican government to protect its citizens abroad.

 

The final chapters focus on the Ricardo Aldape Guerra case.  A native of Monterrey, Mexico, Guerra was sentenced to death in 1982 for the first-degree murder of a Houston Police Officer that took place three months earlier. He spent 15 years in a maximum security prison in Huntsville, Texas, before his death sentence was overturned and he was set free.  In this section it's revealed that the reopened investigation of the crime uncovered evidence that the jury never heard when Aldape was convicted.

 

This book was originally published in Mexico as Mexicanos al grito de muerte.