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stopping an execution for the good of the country?

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

Politics, and especially international politics, makes strange bedfellows.  From the Dallas Morning News: [D]efense attorneys, and an unusual coalition of federal officials, including no less than the attorney general and secretary of state, say if his Aug. 5 execution is not stayed, so Mr. Medellin’s case can be reviewed one more time at the behest of the International Court of Justice, Texas will be rushing to judgment and endangering Americans abroad. “Put simply, the United States seeks the help of the State of Texas,” Attorney General Michael Mukasey and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrote Texas Gov. Rick Perry in a letter released by defense attorneys. Congressional action is currently underway to permit litigation of such claims in federal court & to give “teeth” to the Vienna Convention, unfortunately for Mr...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on July 28, 2008 (boomark / email).