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Move to head off Medellin execution

From Scotus BLOG :Move to head off Medellin executionFriday, August 1st, 2008 1:58 pm | Lyle DennistonFURTHER UPDATE 4:50 p.m. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has now refused to issue a stay of the execution and has dismissed the latest state court challenge. Links to the Court?s order, along with separate opinions, can be found here. This appears to mean the execution of Jose Ernesto Medellin can occur Tuesday, unless there is action either by the Texas governor, who has a clemency plea before him, or by the Supreme Court. One judge on the Texas court, Judge Tom Price, urged the governor to grant a reprieve.????????Lawyers for a Mexican national on death row in Texas, who is at the center of a long-running international dispute over enforcing treaty rights, filed a flurry of legal pleas at the Supreme Court Friday morning, seeking to head off his execution next Tuesday...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 03, 2008 (boomark / email).