President Alfonso Portillo granted clemency to an illiterate...

President Alfonso Portillo granted clemency to an illiterate Kekchi-speaking peasant farmer, Pedro Rax Cucul, who had been sentenced to death for a 1996 murder. Concerns had been raised about the severe mental disorders from which Pedro Rax suffers which had not been taken into account at his trial, and the fact that the trial proceedings and his court-ordered mental evaluation were conducted entirely in Spanish, a language he does not speak.