Saturday, February 15, 2003

Well, golly!
Lisa Adams at the AP astounds with Mexican Political Party Backs Executions:
TOLUCA, Mexico - Just weeks after Mexico asked the World Court to stay the executions of Mexicans on death row in the United States, politicians here are suggesting the death penalty may be the best way to stop skyrocketing crime rates at home.

The proposal has provoked an outcry among human rights groups, rival political parties and business groups ? and struck a raw nerve in a country where opposition to the death penalty has more than once strained relations with its neighbor to the north.

The former ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, and the allied Green Party are sponsoring a nonbinding referendum on the death penalty Sunday in Mexico state a few weeks before local municipal elections.
Looks like the Mexican Green Party really believes in cleaning up the environment!