Heron Varela Flores, a Mexican soldier facing the death...

Heron Varela Flores, a Mexican soldier facing the death penalty for killing a superior, rejected a decision by President Vicente Fox to spare his life. The mother of Heron Varela Flores said her son killed a colonel in self-defence and if he accepted the president's overruling of a military court it would be recognizing that he was guilty of insubordination. "He's said he's against it and told me 'I did not ask for anything ... the colonel was going to kill me, I defended myself and that is not insubordination,'" Varela Flores' mother Eva Flores told reporters.