Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of longest prison sentences ever given to a single ... Sentenced to 759 years in jail for killing and robbing sixteen elderly women in Mexico City, ...
Simmons was a known mental patient, for this reason his sentence was commuted to 30 years-prison. [28] [29] Dr. Alfredo Ballí Treviño November 1961 1981 Murder Nuevo León: 33 years-old male physician who was sentenced to death for the murder and dismemberment of his boyfriend, Jesús Castillo Rangel. He was the last man condemned to death in ...
Life imprisonment in Mexico is theoretically legal, but as of 2001, the Mexican Supreme Court stated that all persons sentenced to life imprisonment or a lengthy prison term (such as 300 years in prison) must become eligible for parole after one has served 50 years. If an offender has maintained good behavior, they become paroled after 40 years.
The release of a total 2,685 people, which follows a 2019 amnesty law benefiting individuals in prison for minor crimes, comes as Lopez Obrador has drawn criticism from human rights groups for his ...
In 2022, 56 inmates were injured in a mass brawl at the Apodaca prison, just outside the northern city of Monterrey, which involved complaints that some prisoners were trying to extort money from ...
Capital punishment in Mexico was officially abolished on 15 March 2005, [1] having not been used in civil cases since 1957, and in military cases since 1961. Mexico is the world's most populous country to have completely abolished the death penalty .
A Mexican federal official who was not authorized to be quoted by name said Cárdenas Guillén had immediately been taken into custody in Mexico on drug, organized crime and money-laundering charges. The official said Cárdenas Guillén was being held at the country's top maximum-security Altiplano prison just west of Mexico City.
Belem Prison was located in Mexico City, Mexico and operated from 1886 until the early 1930s. The building was originally used by the Church and was confiscated during the Liberal Reform in 1857. The prison was replaced as the main prison by Lecumberri prison, becoming the equivalent of a county or city jail. It housed many well-known criminals ...