The Death Penalty and Mexico-U.S. Relations: Historical Continuities and Present Dilemmas (proceedings), April 14, 2004

These ongoing debates, Texas’ position in the frontline of Mexican nationals on death row, together with Mexico’s recent legal battle at the International Court of Justice, has prompted the Mexican Center at the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies and the UT School of Law of the University of Texas at Austin to convene a bi-national symposium, in April 2004, to understand better Mexico’s stance on capital punishment from both contemporary and historical perspectives. The symposium brought together academics, lawyers, international relations policy analysts, Texas public officials, the media and the general public in order to analyze the death penalty’s place within Mexican history, and to review the contemporary debate.