Hundreds turned out in the Mexican border town of Piedras...

Hundreds turned out in the Mexican border town of Piedras Negras for the funeral of a Mexican man executed in Texas [on August 14] for the 1988 killing of an undercover cop.
More than 300 vehicles joined the cortege that carried the coffin of Javier Suarez Medina from Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic church, where a funeral Mass was said, to the city's Santo Cristo cemetery.
"The people haven't stopped coming. They're accompanying my son. They want to come to say goodbye to Javier," said Guadalupe Medina, the dead man's mother.
A mariachi band performed traditional songs, while Los Pinguinos del Norte, a popular group based in Piedras Negras, offered a "corrido" (folk song) written in honour of the confessed killer.
Some of the mourners came from Eagle Pass, Texas, which lies just across the border from the Mexican state of Coahuila.
Members of civic groups and human rights organizations joined the procession, carrying signs denouncing the death penalty and US authorities.
Activists also called on Mexicans in the border region to forego their customary weekend shopping excursions into Texas in response to the state's execution of Suarez, whose last request was that his body be returned to the town where he was born 33 years ago.
Suarez, who lived in the United States from the age of 3, was sentenced to death in 1989 for killing a Dallas undercover policeman during a drug bust.
He was executed by lethal injection after the US Supreme Court rejected a last-minute appeal for a stay. The sentence had already been delayed more than a dozen times.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry declined to heed requests from Mexican President Vicente Fox and international organizations to review the case of Suarez, who at the time of his arrest was not informed of his right to seek assistance from the Mexican Consulate.
After the execution, Fox cancelled a scheduled visit to Texas, where he was to meet with George W. Bush at the US president's ranch in Crawford.
More than 50 Mexicans remain on death row in US prisons, 17 of them in Texas.