Vigilante Found Guilty of Murder in Arizona; Could Face Death Penalty | Feet in 2 Worlds: "Shawna Forde, the founder of a vigilante border group, could face the death penalty after she was found guilty on Monday of killing 9-year-old Bricenia Flores and her father Raúl Flores in 2009. The jury began deliberations on Tuesday on whether or not to impose capital punishment.
Forde, the 43-year-old leader of Minutemen American Defense (MAD), a splinter faction of the Minutemen – a citizen group that patrols the U.S.-Mexico border looking for undocumented people – had pleaded not guilty to the charges of first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and home-invasion.
Prosecutors in Pima County accused Forde of being the intellectual author behind the crime, which entailed breaking into the Flores home to steal money. Forde claims to have believed that Raul Flores was involved with drug dealing, and she had planned to use the stolen money to fund her border vigilante group." Feb. 18, 2011
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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