Mexico City, April 25.- Ricardo Monreal sent a letter to Texas Governor Greg Abbott requesting that the death sentence, scheduled for April 27, be commuted to another sentence considered comparable to the damage to the legal right.
The president of the Senate's Political Coordination Board seeks respect for the human rights to life, integrity, and non-discrimination of his fellow countryman.
Meanwhile, this Monday, a Texas court suspended Melissa Lucio's death sentence and will examine new evidence of her innocence.
The death penalty, the senator warned the Texas governor, violates the right to life enshrined in Article 3 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Monreal Ávila denounced that this punishment magnifies the material consequences of the "judicial error," that is, the wrongful punishment of a person who was not the material perpetrator of the crime.
"The death penalty is the ultimate punishment and is irrevocable; the risk of executing innocent people can never be ruled out."
According to Amnesty International reports, the legislator noted, since 1973, more than 184 people sentenced to death in the United States have subsequently been exonerated or released after their innocence was proven, but others have been executed despite serious doubts about their guilt.
