There is an old Texas saying, Some men just need killing, or maybe that’s an invention of Hollywood – it’s been used in several movies over the years. Whether is was first said by an old gunslinger wearing the Cinco Peso badge of a Texas Ranger, or dreamed up by a screen writer whose idea of the wild west was a wrap party in Beverly Hills, I’d have to say that the statement contains an element of truth.
Last night, in the first execution of 2014, and over the objections of the Government of Mexico and the US Department of State, Texas gave the needle to Edgar Tamayo, a cop killing illegal alien.
Tamayo was convicted of murdering a young Houston police officer, Guy Gaddis, ten years ago in January 1994. Gaddis, who had been on the force for two years, was driving Tamayo and another man from a robbery scene when evidence showed the officer was shot three times in the head and neck with a pistol Tamayo had concealed in his pants. The car crashed, and Tamayo fled on foot but was captured a few blocks away, still in handcuffs, carrying the robbery victim's watch and wearing the victim's necklace.
The facts of the case were undeniable, and nobody was claiming that Tamayo wasn’t a sorry SOB. Mexico, and John Kerry were upset because they felt his conviction was in violation of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations.
That agreement provides for consular assistance to people arrested in foreign countries, and they claim Tamayo was not informed of that right.
The State of Texas didn’t seem to think he deserved any special privileges just because he was here illegally. That makes sense to me.
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