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A loyal reader has informed me that an earlier link to HR 6481 has gone blank.  The text of the Avena Case Implementation Act of 2008 is below. I would urge readers to sign an online petition at this LINK to urge action by the House of Representatives.  Jose Medellin is scheduled to be executed by Texas on August 5, in spite of calls from the United States Attorney General and Secretary of State, prominent Texans, and newspaper editorials, to stay the execution and provide additional review of the state's failure to provide consular notification.110TH CONGRESS2D SESSION H. R. 6481 To create a civil action to provide judicial remedies to carry out certaintreaty obligations of the United States under the Vienna Conventionon Consular Relations and the Optional Protocol to the Vienna Conventionon Consular Relations...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 30, 2008 (boomark / email).