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The death penalty in Mexico has been banned for almost fifty years.  The Mexico government has even tried to sue the US for the death penalty carried out on their citizens.  They have even tried to block executions in Texas on illegal aliens that have comitted murders.

Now, with all the anger and frustration of the drug killings, people are talking about reinstating the death penalty in Mexico.  

Anger and frustration over rampant killings and kidnappings have ignited an improbable debate here over legalizing the death penalty, a punishment that has been effectively banned in Mexico for nearly half a century.

Lawmakers agreed Thursday to hear arguments next week on a proposal to amend the Mexican Constitution to allow for capital punishment in a narrow number of cases.

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The initiative from Humberto Moreira, governor of the northern border state of Coahuila, would allow the death penalty for convicted kidnappers who killed or mutilated their victims. He said as far as the people of his state were concerned, the only issue was how to execute convicts, not whether to do so.

It is highly unlikely, if not impossible, that the death penalty could be reinstated because of legal obstacles, experts said. But that is almost beside the point. Moreira has tapped into public panic over soaring crime, a climate of fear that has made law and order the country’s No. 1 worry.

More at Michelle Malkin.

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