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The Vatican has made numerous statements criticizing capital punishment, and this may be a factor in the debate in Mexico. In 2003, the State of Mexico voted in a nonbinding referendum regarding the death penalty. 82% of the 806,416 people who voted, voted Yes for the death penalty on crimes of murder, kidnapping, child theft and violent assaults.
At 17 July 1928, at 2:20 pm, De León Toral shot Obregón six times while the president-elect ate in a restaurant named "La Bombilla" localised in San Ángel neighborhood, now Álvaro Obregón borough, Mexico City. De León was a destaca citizen without a criminal record, a father of three, a caricaturist, and a professional soccer player; he ...
Nuestra Señora de la Santa Muerte ( Spanish: [ˈnwestɾa seˈɲoɾa ðe la ˈsanta ˈmweɾte]; Spanish for Our Lady of Holy Death ), often shortened to Santa Muerte, is a new religious movement, female deity, folk-Catholic saint, [ 1][ 2] and folk saint in Mexican folk Catholicism and Neopaganism. [ 3][ 4]: 296–297 A personification of death ...
Capital punishment, also called the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as a punishment for a crime.It has historically been used in almost every part of the world.
War crime. v. t. e. Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, [1] [2] is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct. [3] The sentence ordering that an offender be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the ...
Mexico. State (s) Sonora. Date apprehended. March 2012. Silvia Meraz Moreno (born 1968) is a Mexican serial killer and sect leader who was convicted of three murders which took place between 2009 and 2012 in Nacozari, Sonora. Three people were murdered as human sacrifices to Santa Muerte. [1]
The Day of the Dead ( Spanish: el Día de Muertos or el Día de los Muertos) [2] [3] is a holiday traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2, though other days, such as October 31 or November 6, may be included depending on the locality. [4] [5] [6] It is widely observed in Mexico, where it largely developed, and is also observed in other ...
Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists and among the ones with the highest levels of unsolved crimes against the press. Though the exact figures of those killed are often conflicting, press freedom organizations around the world agree through general consensus that Mexico is among the most dangerous countries on the planet to exercise journalism as a profession.