Teenage killer's light sentence a concern for violence-ridden Mexico

Sara Miller Llana | The Christian Science Monitor | Jul 28, 2011

When a teenager coldly confessed to his role in the assassination of four people, who were found beheaded and hanging from a bridge in Central Mexico last year, the nation was stunned. From new mothers to older Mexicans who have watched violence spiral in the past decade, they hoped that the shocking case would at least be a wakeup for a society that appears increasingly inured to murder.

This week, however, many of them are reacting bitterly to the sentence that was just handed down. Edgar Jimenez, better known as “El Ponchisâ€