Mexican national’s lawyers want execution halted


January 22, 2014 at 1:54p.m.

Mexican national’s lawyers want execution halted

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Attorneys considered last-minute attempts today to keep a Mexican national from Texas’ death chamber after the state opposed legal efforts and spurned diplomatic pressure to delay his punishment for killing a Houston police officer two decades ago. Edgar Arias Tamayo, 46, was set for lethal injection today for the January 1994 slaying of Guy Gaddis, 24.