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Mexico to Fight Railroad Killer's Execution
LAST UPDATE: 6/23/2006 10:06:30 PM
Posted By: Walker Robinson
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The Mexican government announced today that it plans to fight Tuesday's execution of a Mexican man known as the "Railroad Killer" based on the argument that he is mentally unstable.

Foreign Relations Secretary Luis Ernesto Derbez has sent a letter to the Texas parole board opposing the execution by injection of 46-year-old Angel Maturino Resendiz.

Resendiz's defense lawyers have said is mentally unfit because he allegedly believes he is half human and half angel.

The Foreign Relations Department also is preparing legal protests against the execution.

Resendiz was convicted of the rape-slaying of Houston physician Claudia Benton, who was killed in her home a week before Christmas in 1998. Resendiz also has been linked to eight slayings in Texas, two each in Illinois and Florida, and one each in Kentucky, California and Georgia.

He became known as the "railroad killer" because he hopped on freight trains and committed random acts of carnage around the U.S. His crimes put him on FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.

A Texas judge ruled this week that Resendiz was mentally competent to be executed.