MEXICAN CARDINAL'S KILLERS SENTENCED

Religion and Lifestyles

Three San Diego, California, gang members have been sentenced to federal
prison terms for the murder of a Roman Catholic cardinal. Cardinal Juan
Posadas-Ocampo was killed along with six other people in a hail of gunfire
sprayed outside the Guadalajara, Mexico, airport in 1993.

Federal prosecutors said suspects Carlos Garcia-Martinez, Adolfo Marin
Cuevas and Jose Mendez-Torres were hit men hired through the Arellano-Felix
drug cartel and were preparing to open fire on a rival drug lord when the
cardinal and his entourage arrived.

Posadas-Ocampo was an outspoken critic of the Mexican drug cartels. The
sentences for the three men range from more than 16 years to nearly 20 years.