We thought Mexico didn't have the death penalty. Turns out we were wrong.

From today's Houston Chronicle: "Mesa State Penitentiary for word on their loved ones Thursday after police killed 17 prisoners to regain control of the facility."


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Hold on. Turns out Mexico really does want the death penalty back:

"In another sign this country is fed up with kidnappings, police corruption and narco-gang killing sprees, some lawmakers have proposed reinstating the death penalty just three years after legislators took it off the books."


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How about including this article in the motion for rehearing on the Kennedy case, currently pending before SCOTUS regarding the international standards for what is or is not cruel and unusual punishment? And, using the foreign logic of SCOTUS, don't articles like this suggest the SCOTUS may have gotten it wrong as to which direction the DP is headed worldwide?

And, isn't it a bizarre notion that the meaning of a US Constitutional Amendment depends upon the opinions of those outside the United States?

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Pollsters last year found more than 70 percent of Mexicans supported the death penalty.

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Would that support a national consensus argument?

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Originally posted by JM:

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Pollsters last year found more than 70 percent of Mexicans supported the death penalty.

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Would that support a national consensus argument?

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No. It's not the percentage argument that matters, it's the number of judges who still don't like it.

Reporting from Mexico City -- Anger and frustration over rampant killings and kidnappings have ignited an improbable debate here over legalizing the death penalty, a punishment that has been effectively banned in Mexico for nearly half a century.

Lawmakers agreed Thursday to hear arguments next week on a proposal to amend the Mexican Constitution to allow for capital punishment in a narrow number of cases.


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Originally posted by JB:
...And, using the foreign logic of SCOTUS...?

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If by foreign, you mean: strange, then I believe that you have hit the nail on its proverbial head.