The noose makes news in Mexico

In international news: The Johor ruler makes it to the newspapers in Mexico. The headline reads: ‘Mexico will appeal to the Sultan of Johor’.

IN Mexico, where the death penalty does not exist despite the bitter war against drug cartels, Malaysia made waves recently after sending three of its citizens to the gallows for drug trafficking.

When the Federal Court in Putrajaya upheld the Court of Appeal’s guilty decision against three brothers in April, the Mexican ambassador to Malaysia Carlos Felix Corona found himself inundated with interview requests from 32 media agencies from his country.