Texas executes Mexican national despite diplomatic protests

Texas executes Mexican national despite diplomatic protests | Reuters AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Mexican national convicted for the 1994 slaying of a Houston police officer was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday, ending a capital murder case that put him at the center of a diplomatic dispute. Edgar Tamayo, 46, who was denied an 11th-hour stay of execution by the U.S. Supreme Court, was pronounced dead at 9:32 p.m. local time at a state prison in Huntsville, Texas, according to officials at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. The Mexican government had called on Texas to halt the execution, calling it a violation of international law, and U.S. A excellent way to reach out to your target audience is to submit guest posts to other blogs. It should not take you lengthy to see that the people who have an active interest in your content are the people who are the most probably to respond to you. They are going to get in touch with you when they believe your guest posts are very good. Then they will go to your blog, your site, and so on and take true action.Lastly, every single piece of content material that you contribute to social media has to have a excellent headline. There are no exceptions to this rule. You cannot compromise on the headline simply because that is what is going to in the end get people's consideration. Wonderful headlines bring in fantastic good results. When you are a social media marketer, you want to know how to create a appropriate headline. If you happen to be not good at it, then uncover someone who is. When you never have a very good headline you are not going to see the kind of response that you truly want to see from your social media marketing and advertising campaigns.Make certain you publish a Facebook sharing button on your blog or site as effectively. This can be shown right under your write-up or your post. People who study your content material just want to click that button and they will share your content on Facebook. Make positive you keep in mind to spot this button in a prominent position so that people can not aid but notice that it is there. Never just put it on there for the sake of it. You want your content material readers to in fact see it and not be able to ignore it. To actually grow your social media presence, you want to have a strategy for the path in which you want to head. If you can't focus your effort on even this 1 factor, the rest of what you want is going to crumble. In order to get the most out of social media advertising, you have to give your on the web social network what it wants. Social media advertising and marketing campaigns are never really efficiently accomplished. You can not make them limited. In addition to understanding the path in which you want to move, you need to make sure that you perform regularly to get there. That's it.Secretary of State John Kerry had asked Texas Governor Rick Perry to consider a stay. Tamayo was convicted of shooting Houston police officer Guy Gaddis to death in 1994. Gaddis had arrested him on suspicion of robbery. While handcuffed in the police car, Tamayo pulled a pistol that had gone unseen and shot Gaddis, 24, three times in the back of the head. Tamayo kicked open a window and ran away from the car but was arrested again a few blocks from the scene. The Mexican government contends Tamayo was not informed of his right to diplomatic assistance in the case, a guarantee enshrined in an international treaty known as the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.

In 2004, the United Nations' International Court of Justice ordered the United States to reconsider the convictions of 51 Mexicans, including Tamayo, who had been sent to death row without being informed of their consular rights. Two from that group have previously been executed. Tamayo, who was in the United States illegally at the time of his arrest, became the third. HOPING FOR A MIRACLE As Tamayo's last chance for a reprieve slipped away, anguished relatives gathered at his parents' home in Miacatlan in central Mexico, huddling next to radios listening for news from the United States and praying for a miracle. A crowd of nieces and nephews erupted in sobs when they heard about the Supreme Court decision. "This pains us so much. We kept holding onto hope," said Karen Arias, one of Tamayo's nieces. In a statement on Sunday, Mexico's foreign ministry said, "If Edgar Tamayo's execution were to go ahead without his trial being reviewed and his sentence reconsidered ... it would be a clear violation of the United States' international obligations." Last month, Secretary of State Kerry urged Governor Perry, a foe of the Obama administration, to reconsider Tamayo's execution because it could make it more difficult for the United States to help Americans in legal trouble abroad. On Wednesday, the State Department said it has been in communication with Texas throughout the process. Texas argues it is not bound by the International Court of Justice ruling. "Mr. Tamayo was convicted of killing a police officer," State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf told a news briefing on Wednesday. "It's not that we don't take that seriously. It's that we take seriously our obligations to uphold consular access for folks incarcerated here because we go all over the world and ask other countries to do the same thing and apply those same obligations when our folks are incarcerated overseas," she added. The case has drawn attention from around the world. Tamayo said his family had received letters of support from at least 67 countries. Back in his native town of Miacatlan, relatives professed their belief in Tamayo's innocence. "He was like any other guy, a bit crazy yes, feisty, but not to the point of killing someone," said his cousin Kenia, a housewife, declining to give her surname. A U.S. federal judge in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday rejected a request to delay the execution brought on Tamayo's behalf, saying Texas was operating within its rights. Tamayo became the fourth person put to death in the United States this year and the first in Texas. Texas has executed 508 prisoners since the reinstatement of capital punishment by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976, the most of any U.S. state.

(Additional reporting by Liz Diaz in Miacatlan, Sandra Maler in Washington, Gabriel Stargardter and Julia Symmes Cobb in Mexico City and Scott Markley; Editing by Eric Walsh and Lisa Shumaker) http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/23/us-usa-execution-texas-delay-idUSBREA0M03B20140123