CrimLaw

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Why do criminals flee the U.S. and go to Mexico?

For one thing, Mexico routinely declines to extradite suspects facing life in prison or the death penalty. Mexico's Supreme Court, which favors rehabilitation and views capital punishment and no-parole sentences as cruel, has blocked numerous extraditions until U.S. authorities agreed to lower the potential punishment a suspect faced in an American court.

It's sad that the bar for "cruel" punishment is actually lower in Mexico than it is here.

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