Texas executes Mexican national despite diplomatic protests


  • World
  • Thursday, 23 Jan 2014

Friends and neighbours of inmate Edgar Tamayo peer inside the window of the Tamayo family house in Miacatlan, Morelos state January 22, 2014. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - A Mexican national convicted for the 1994 slaying of a Houston police officer was executed by lethal injection in Texas on Wednesday, ending a capital murder case that put him at the centre of a diplomatic dispute.

Edgar Tamayo, 46, who was denied an 11th-hour stay of execution by the U.S. Supreme Court, was pronounced dead at 9:32 p.m. local time (0332 GMT) at a state prison in Huntsville, Texas, according to officials at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

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