Execution Would Earn the US International Condemnation

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Execution Would Earn the US International Condemnation
El Informador, Mexico
By Violeta Melendez
Translated By Mayra Reiter
22 January 2014
Edited by Brent Landon

Executing Mexican prisoner Edgar Tamayo Arias, even after international entities have asked for a review of the case, would earn the United States the condemnation of the international community because the death penalty is already a practice objected to in the West, thinks Nauhcatzin Bravo Aguilar, professor of the University of Guadalajara.

“It will have to face that condemnation as long as it does not adjust its vision to contemporary demands on human rights with respect to international reproach of the death penalty,” said the legal expert.

“The United States is one of the few countries that practice the death penalty, and in spite of calling itself a defender of human rights, it is on a par with countries in the Middle East that it disparages, such as China (sic), which goes against our Western concept of the rule of law.”

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In Bravo Aguilar’s opinion, the United States engages in double speak regarding human rights: When it has to do with American citizens it is careful and demanding, but when dealing with foreigners in its territory, it is negligent and tramples their legal guarantees.