Mexico Sent Cartel Bosses to U.S. Knowing They Could Face Execution
Rafael Caro Quintero, who faces trial in Brooklyn, and at least four other drug cartel figures are vulnerable to the death penalty because they were expelled from Mexico rather than extradited.
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