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Texas Response to World Court Ruling

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The Houston Chronicle reports, "Texas still plans to execute killer despite U.N. order."Texas will go ahead with the scheduled Aug. 5 execution of Houston rapist-killer Jose Medellin despite Wednesday's United Nations world court order for a stay, a spokesman for Gov. Rick Perry said. The U.N.'s International Court of Justice's call for stays in the cases of Medellin and four other Mexican nationals awaiting execution in Texas came in response to a petition filed last month by the Mexican government. The petition sought to halt executions to allow for review of the killers' cases to determine whether denying them access to the Mexican Consulate after arrest impaired their trial defenses. The Vienna Convention on Consular Relations stipulates that, upon request, an alien offender's national consulate must be notified of his arrest...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 17, 2008 (boomark / email).