NewsWhore
10-22-2008, 03:40 PM
Supporters of Humberto Pepin Taveras are asking President Leonel Fernandez to help them in their campaign to prevent Pepin being put to death in the US after he was found guilty of two murders in 1992. After the murders Pepin dismembered the two men, an associate and a rival, saying he used his professional skills as a butcher in the DR to do it properly. Reports indicate that Pepin preferred to go to trial than admit guilt, arguing that the murders were in self-defense. Diario Libre reports that Pepin was deported in 1989 after serving nine months in jail on a domestic abuse charge. He re-entered the US illegally, and subsequently committed the murders. Deliberations on whether or not to sentence him to death could take only a week, beginning on 29 October.
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