Mother of slain Mexican immigrant seeks 'death penalty'
I thought Mexico did not approve of the death penalty?
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Report: Mother of slain Mexican immigrant seeks 'death penalty'
Jan 15, 2007
MEXICO CITY -- The mother of a Mexican immigrant shot to death last week by a U.S. Border Patrol Agent in Arizona asked for justice on Monday and said she would like to see the agent receive the death penalty.
"I want the death penalty for that killer, because my son was just trying to find a better opportunity," an emotional Laura Rivera told the Mexican news agency Notimex. "He was a young worker whom they simply killed in cold blood, so I want justice."
Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera, 22, a native of the central state of Puebla, was shot and killed during a confrontation with the unidentified agent north of the U.S.-Mexico border between Bisbee and Douglas on Friday after the agent responded to a call about a group of seven people crossing the desert.
The agent took six of the seven people into custody without incident but then started fighting with Dominguez Rivera. The agent, who thought his life was in danger, shot and killed the man, the Border Patrol said previously.
The agent was put on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the case. The FBI said Monday that it was investigating the death, while an autopsy of Dominguez Rivera was scheduled for Wednesday. Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Mexico's Foreign Relations Department condemned the shooting.
Dominguez Rivera's father, Renato Dominguez, said he doubted the Border Patrol's version of events.
"The one certain thing is that people there are racist and this is not the first Mexican they've killed," he said.
Dominguez Rivera left the city of Cuautla in the central state of Morelos, where his family is currently living, for the United States last Wednesday, accompanied by brothers Jorge and Rene Dominguez Rivera, their mother said.
The three brothers, like their father, were bricklayers, and were headed north to find jobs with better pay.
During family Christmas celebrations Francisco Dominguez Rivera told his mother, "'Mom, this Christmas is going to be unforgettable because in the next one we might not be together. But I'm going to help you from the United States. I'm going to send you money to finish your house,'" said Laura Rivera, who held a photo of her son in her hands, according to the Notimex report.
Rivera said officials told her husband that their son's body would arrive in Cuautla by Thursday at the latest.
"I want this all to be over, for them to bring the body and return my other two sons," Rivera said, weeping.
Re: Mother of slain Mexican immigrant seeks 'death penalty'
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Originally Posted by jean
I thought Mexico did not approve of the death penalty?
The Mexicans think the death penalty is just fine, provided it's only applied to the evil gringos.
Mexico is an evil, racist, hate-filled country. I guess that's why GWB wants to import millions of them up here.