Mexicans on death row

Mexicans on death row / Ricardo Ampudia ; English translation by Susan Rascón.

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ampudia, Ricardo, 1949-
Other Authors: Rascón, Susan Giersbach
Format: eBook
Language:English
Spanish
Published: Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Capital punishment > United States > Cases.
Mexicans > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Capital punishment
Mexicans > Legal status, laws, etc.
United States
Trials, litigation, etc.
Online Access:Click for online access
Uniform Title:Mexicanos al grito de muerte.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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