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Urge Congressional Leaders to Address Issue of Mexican Nationals on Death Row

Marcia CoyleThe National Law JournalJuly 24, 2008 image: New York Law Journal The current president and nine past presidents of the American Society of International Law have written to congressional leaders urging them to take legislative action to resolve a treaty dispute between Mexico and the United States over Mexican nationals on death row in the U.S.Their action was prompted by the U.S. Supreme Court's decision earlier this year in Medellin v. Texas, involving one of 51 Mexican nationals on death row who did not receive access to his consular officials as required by the Vienna Convention on Consular Affairs, to which the United States is a party. The first of these Mexican nationals is scheduled to be executed on Aug...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).