Edgar Tamayo

Texas executed Mexican citizen Edgar Tamayo on Wednesday January 22nd at 6 pm, for killing a police officer, despite the objections from the U.S. State Department as well as international diplomatic pressure. The Supreme  In an op-ed in the Austin American-Statesman, former Texas Governor Mark White called for a new hearing for Edgar Tamayo, a … Read more

The man in question, 46-year-old Edgar Tamayo, was in the United States illegally at the time of his arrest, when he shot and killed a Houston police officer named Guy Gaddis in 1994. Tamayo was convicted of the crime, but  A Mexican held on death-row in a Texan prison for murdering a policeman will be … Read more