From the Chicago Tribune: 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. 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....
"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
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-execution-texas-delay-20140122,0,4841723.story
Actually, the Obama administration doesn't take cop killing seriously.
Remember Brian terry, a Border Patrol agent who was killed in the Obama scandal of Fast and Furious? Yep, Eric Holder and the rest of the Obama ilk did nothing about that.
It's a shame that the Obama administration/Eric Holder/John Kerry decided to side with a cop killer thug instead of the people of Texas.
But I guess that is not surprising since they love illegal thugs over American citizens.
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