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Medellin Execution Violates ICJ Decision in Avena

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That's the title of commentary at Jurist by Rick Kirgis, secretary of the American Society of International Law.  LINK If the state of Texas goes ahead with the planned execution of José Ernesto Medellín without allowing him any judicial reconsideration of his murder conviction and his death sentence (to determine whether he was prejudiced by the Texas authorities? failure to notify him of his right to contact the Mexican consulate after he was arrested), the United States will breach its obligation under the United Nations Charter and the Statute of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to comply with the decision of the ICJ against the United States in the Avena case. In that case the ICJ held that the failure to provide review and reconsideration for Medellín and similarly-situated Mexican nationals convicted of murder in the United States was a violation of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations (the Vienna Convention)...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).