11:09 AM CDT on Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Associated Press

MEXICO CITY – Mexicans struggling with increasingly gruesome crimes at home gave the most muted reactions in recent memory to the execution of one of their own citizens in Texas.

With Mexican news dominated by the kidnap-killing of 14-year-old Fernando Marti, the execution of Mexican Jose Medellin for the 1993 rape-murder of two girls in Texas appears to have sparked far less outrage than people here have shown in previous death penalty cases.

Some Mexicans are even calling for the death penalty here.

"The terrible news of the Marti youngster has overshadowed the execution in Texas last night of a Mexican," said Gabriel Guerra, a political analyst on the Televisa television network.

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