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Mexicans on death row /
Publisher's Description: "They stole 15 years of my life." A native of Monterrey, Mexico, Ricardo Aldape 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 i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Español |
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Houston, Tex. :
Arte Público Press,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue / Fernando Solana
- Introduction
- Death Penalty:
- Definition and history of the death penalty
- Death penalty debate
- Death penalty in the United States
- Legal evolution of the death penalty
- Death penalty and legislation cases
- Legal procedure of the death penalty
- Life on death row and the execution of a convict
- Consular protection of Mexicans sentenced to death in the United States:
- History of the consular protection provided by the government of Mexico to its citizens abroad
- Situation of Mexicans sentenced to death in the United States
- Work of the Mexican government in the protection of Mexican citizens sentenced to death in the United States
- Avena Case:
- Background
- Case concerning Avena and other Mexican nationals (Mexico v United States) before the International Court of Justice
- Aldape Case:
- Murders
- Writ of Habeas corpus
- Evidentiary hearing
- Vindication
- Final reflections and conclusions
- Glossary
- Appendices:
- Appendix 1-A: Death penalty worldwide
- Appendix 1-B: Global categories regarding the death penalty
- Appendix 1-C: a: Anti-death penalty organizations and groups in the United States
- b: International legislation regarding the right to life and opposed to the death penalty
- Appendix 2-A: Minors executed under the death penalty
- Bibliography.