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Jurist Commentary on Medellin

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Bryan McCann has commentary on Jurist, "Medellin death penalty case exposes hollow Texas brand of gunslinger politics."If Texas gets its way, Joe Medellin will be the second of the five men sentenced to death for the Ertman and Pena murders to be executed. However, his pending execution date of August 5 has become a topic of considerable international controversy. Though Derrick O?Brien, who was executed in 2006 for the crimes, was a native of Texas, Joe Medellin is a Mexican national. He was denied access to a Mexican consulate for legal assistance during his original trial. This flagrant affront to international law enshrined in the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations prompted the International Court of Justice to issue a 2004 order to stay Medellin's execution...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 25, 2008 (boomark / email).