"Mr. Zambada doesn't want to go to trial and is willing to accept responsibility for a charge that doesn't carry out the death penalty," said the drug lord's lawyer Frank Perez

Mexican president Claudia Sheinbaum is reportedly reviewing a petition by Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada to be returned to Mexico for trial. Zambada, a notorious former leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, is currently incarcerated in the US.

Accused Mexican drug kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada is willing to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors in the United States if the arrangement spares him from the death penalty, his lawyer told Reuters on Monday.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that her administration will evaluate the repatriation request of Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, a co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, based on legal principles applicable to any Mexican citizen.