no more death penalty in mexico

with all the talk about arnold denying clemency for tookie williams, and him being executed,* i thought i would share this fact: mexico just abolished the death penalty.

The Mexican legal system has not put anyone to death since 1961, and courts usually refuse to extradite suspects to the United States or other countries if there is a chance they could wind up on death row.

But capital punishment was, until Friday, still technically legal, especially in military courts.

* tookie williams was the founder of the crips who was executed in CA after midnight this morning.