Serena Angelique Velazquez, one of two transgender women whose bodies were found in a burned out car in Puerto Rico – Photo: Facebook.
LGBTQ activists in Puerto Rico are asking federal authorities not to seek the death penalty in the murder trial of two men arrested and charged with the murders of two transgender women on the island. “Revenge is not synonymous with justice,” Pedro Julio Serrano, a spokesman for CABE, the Broad Committee for the Search for Equity, an LGBTQ Puerto Rican group, said in a statement. “Our Constitution expressly prohibits the death penalty and our people reaffirm that maxim. … We demand justice for Serena Velázquez and Layla Peláez, but we do not want to take anyone’s life.” Osvaldo Burgos, another CABE
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