Mexico Seeks Halt to Countryman’s Execution
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From Times Wire Reports
TEXAS
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Mexico is seeking clemency for one of its citizens that Texas plans to execute Wednesday, contending the Mexican consulate wasn’t notified until the man’s capital murder trial was over.
Similar protests in 1993 and 1997 on behalf of Mexican citizens who were on death row in the state failed.
Javier Suarez Medina, 33, was convicted of the Dec. 13, 1988, shooting death of a Dallas narcotics officer.
He would be the fifth Mexican citizen executed here since Texas reinstated the death penalty in 1982.
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