I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough.
-M. C. (Maurits Cornelis) Escher

I'm sure these drug lords have been a part of many deaths, being related to an overdose of a user or the actual killing that takes place in the dealers lifestyle. Open your eyes people, it happens all of the time! WE DON"T WANT THE ILLEGAL DRUG LORDS HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, SarahB, seems to be a shortage of civilized 21st century people around here. The principle of proportionality in punishment is a foundation of common law dating back to the Magna Carta. You'd at least think people would be familiar with the Eighth Amendment. The death penalty for a crime which barely rates four years in the pen? We haven't executed anyone for a crime other than murder since 1964 -- almost my entire lifetime.
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Last year the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty was disproportionate for ANY crime that did not involve the death of the victim. This essentially struck down several state laws (remaining or in some cases new) regarding capital punishment for child rape.
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/kennedy-...
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While dealing drugs is a pretty heinous crime, I don't think it's as bad as child rape, and certainly not as bad as murder.
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I'm not sure they think of Mexicans as human beings, meaning they would be deserving of human rights. They just think it's a convenient way to dispose of a problem. But then we and China are about the only countries that still execute at all. What a proud accomplishment that is.

Sarah, I don't see any racism here. I think everyone is sick and tired of the scum that come illegally from OTHER countries,smuggle their drugs in and cause the crime rate to go up. A lot of these people aren't even wanted back in their own country because they are so bad. Why should we keep them here?

I don't see the people on this page posting cheers for Krystal Hart, convicted of killing Everardo Chimal Lopez, an immigrant from Mexico, who legally entered the country and was living and working in the Delavan area.

I admit I am uncomfortable about the quickly growing Mexican population in this country, but I don't blame them for wanting to better themselves - I blame our government for not working harder to stop illegal aliens from entering the country and not cracking down on the people who employ them. If Canadians were doing the same thing, I'd be mad about that too. Of course, since most Canadians have European skin tones and facial features instead of Hispanic ones, they aren't as easy to pick out of the typical crowd in Janesville.

As long as people are immigrating legally into this country, I'm not mad at them, and if our Federal government would protect us from illegal immigration, I wouldn't be mad at it. I think sanctuary cities should be cut off from all Federal funds.

One thing immigration laws should help do is to keep our population from growing, or even shrink it a little. The world, including the U.S., has far too many people in it and our country should be an example to the rest of the world by reducing our impact on the environment. We need to keep improving the standard of living, which traditionally shrinks the birth rate, and prevent population growth resulting from illegal immigration.

Duque wasn't some poor, honest, hard-working peon who got caught relaxing at a party with a few lines of blow, he has been dealing drugs for 2 years and got caught with multiple kilos of cocaine.
http://www.doj.state.wi.us/news/2009/nr0...

Chosen 1: They don't just sound racist; they are racist.

u people are really sounding racist

OkieFed: You're an "illegal" in this state. Go home.

Execution is a waste. Give them a 5 year suspended sentence as human test subjects and build a Federal prison with special testing facilities to incarcerate the illegal returnees. If they return to the U.S. after being deported and are caught, off to special prison they go. Allow food and drug companies to use them for testing new products. That would reduce the stem-cell research problem and also shut PETA up about animal testing. We could even reduce Detroit's expenses by letting them be used instead of expensive crash test dummies.

Any industry that currently has to try to incorporate human-like testing could save a lot of money. Since they aren't U.S. citizens and can avoid the punishment by staying out of our country, the ACLU would have no basis for complaining. After all, the companies using them for testing are trying to make safe products, they won't be performing cruel and unusual punishment for the sake of punishing the human guinea pigs. It would help make American businesses more competitive.

Execution is wrong.

I'm for deporting the guy without having the taxpayers pay for prison. Also, I'd like to know the actual evidence that was brought against him. If he had any substantial cocaine, I suspect, he would have gotten far more than 4 years.

janesvillean:
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My screws are checked and cinched down tight. You’d be less confused if you read the whole story, above. The death sentence would not be for illegal immigration. It would be for committing a felony, particularly a drug felony, and then returning after being deported. As it stands, we have a revolving door for deported felons, and there is no reason to allow these people to ever return (and live to tell about it, anyway).

right on.

I agree with Northman. He wouldn't be executed for being an illegal immigrant, he would be executed for breaking the law of returning to our country when he was already deported for a crime!

So you mean to tell me this guy got 4 years in the US and then he will be deported. Whats the point? Why should we as tax payers take care of this guy when he's just going back to Mexico. Does the US send a bill to mexico to cover his cost? Don't get me wrong I understand what this guy did is wrong but with the way our jails and prisons are so over populated why not just let Mexico take care of this person.

It boggles the mind that anyone would actually suggest a death sentence for illegal immigration. Sure, it's a problem, but you know, it's pretty nuts. Checked all your screws recently?

We should have a 2-part sentence for cases like this. The first is 4 years in the slam, then deportation. The second is a death sentence, which is suspended. If he is ever caught in the U.S. again, the sentence is carried out immediately, with no appeals. That would probably cut down on illegal returnees, and if not, we’ve still solved the problem.

What a waste of time and money send him back now. why should he only get 4 years. and like marymac said he will be back so we can spend more tax dollars again to send him back to prison again and re-deport him once more. do you really think he is going to learn his lesson? NOT he is probably thinking how he is going to get back into the states as I type. What a joke.

Too bad they can't insert a subcutaneous transponder (© Star Trek) before releasing him so the could track him down if he tried to come back into the U.S.

"Joint" intervention indeed!

bye, bye

And he will be back in the states in 50 months.