Just hours after U.S. prosecutors announced they would not seek the death penalty against Mexican drug lords Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada and Rafael Caro Quintero, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said her administration supports the decision, arguing that capital punishment is incompatible with extradition cases between the United States and Mexico.
On Tuesday, prosecutors from the Eastern District of New York filed notices in both cases stating that the U.S. attorney general had authorized and directed them not to pursue the death penalty against the former drug lords despite President Donald Trump's previous calls for capital punishment for drug traffickers.
