The United States withdraws the death penalty in the trials against May Zambada and other Mexican capos

May Zambada, the Capo de las thousand lives, can lengthen its legend in the United States. Despite his thunderous fall, given by force under treason at the hands of his godson, the 77 -year -old drug trafficker will spend the last days of his life in a US cell. The Department of Justice of Donald Trump has officially notified on Tuesday that he will not look for the death penalty against who was one of the historical leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel. Rafael Caro Quintero and Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, aka El Viceroy, other prominent bosses recently delivered to Washington by Mexican authorities, will receive the same benefit, which points to a pact between prosecutors and defenses to achieve guilty agreements.

The news has been transferred by Joseph Nocella, the prosecutor of the case, to Judge Brian Cogan, who presides over the trial against Zambada García in the Court of the Eastern District of New York. “The Attorney General (Pam Bondi) has authorized and ordered this office not to seek the death penalty against the accused,” reads the brief document sent on Tuesday, also signed by other lawyers of the case, Francisco J. Navarro, Robert M. Pollack and Lauren A. Bowman.

Frank Perez, the defense lawyer of El Mayo, has celebrated that Bondi has retired from the table the possibility that his client ends in the hall of the death sentence. “We welcome this decision that marks an important step to achieve a fair solution,” said the lawyer through a statement. Perez had been working on alternatives for the judicial process of his client at least since January, when the Federal Washington authorities admitted that they were building a possible agreement.

Zambada faces 17 charges for crimes related to drug trafficking, money laundering, arms trafficking, kidnappings and murders. When withdrawing capital punishment among the possible results of the judicial process, the negotiation between the defense of May and the Trump government to achieve a guilt agreement.

On July 25, a year of the fall at an airport in New Mexico of the Criminal Chief, who never in his life had stepped on a prison in his native country. In that operation, Joaquín Guzmán López, son of Joaquín, was also arrested El Chapo Guzmán and one of the most prominent members of Los Chapitos, the faction of the cartel controlled by the bonnets of the hood sentenced to life imprisonment. The arrest, according to Mayo himself In a letter written from prison, it was a betrayal orchestrated by its godson. “The United States lacks legitimacy to impose a sanction as serious as the death penalty,” said the boss in that same letter.

Ovid Guzmán López, another of the children of El Chapo, declared himself in July guilty of the drug trafficking charges imputed to him. It is the first among the heirs of Guzmán Loera who reaches an agreement with the authorities of the Department of Justice. The Trump government is responsible for the arrival of huge amounts of fentanyl to the country. Joaquín, who delivered to El Mayo, is in negotiations to follow the steps of Ovid.

The benefit announced today also plays Caro Quintero, perhaps the most emblematic boss among the 29 criminals that the Government of Claudia Sheinbaum gave to Donald Trump at the beginning of the Republican’s mandate. The veteran drug trafficker, also with more than seven decades of life, will appear for the first time against US justice to respond for Enrique’s murder Kiki Camarena, the DEA agent, occurred 40 years ago. The next judicial view of Caro Quintero in New York will be on September 18.

The Viceroy, of El Cartel de Juárez, brother of the legendary Capo Amado Carrillo, known as the lord of heaven, will also have an autumn bound with justice. Vicente Carrillo received a 28 -year prison sentence from Mexican authorities in 2021. Less than four years have passed since then, when he was sent to the north as part of the impressive and historical operation of Mexican bosses to Americans.

When the United States received these drug traffickers, he announced that he would look for the death penalty for four of them. Viceroy has fought today from that burden, just like Caro Quintero. There are only two candidates for capital punishment, José Rodolfo Villarreal Hernández, a Gatillero de los Beltrán Leyva who will be tried in Texas, and Andrew Clark, the only Canadian inside the package, and member of the Jalisco Nueva Generación poster, who will respond to a judge in California.